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We are in the process of starting a .NET Users Group in Richmond, VA.  All those interested, send me an e-mail and we will get you on our distribution list.

Has anyone else done this yet?  We are using DataSet\DataTable types throughout our application.  We would like to add a couple of custom methods to DataTable.  Looking over the docs, I do not see any reason why we cannot do this.  However, prior to writing all the code and implementing this only to discover a great reason why we should not, I'd like to hear from anyone who has done this or can tell me why we should not do it.

2003 is out, but when will MS release a .NET IDE that works!  We spend, and I kid you not, 1-2 hours a day messing around with IDE problems, shutting down the IDE because it locks, shutting down or machines, staring at hang ups, strange build errors that magically go away on the next immediate Build, etc...

In follow up to my original post, per Microsoft the download cache is a LRU cache that will automatically clear the least recently used assemblies. You should not have to manually clear the cache.

This has not happened, but I keep thinking about it. Is this possible?

We have a states Datatable (50 US States) that has 2 DataColumns, 'code', which equals the state abbreviation, and 'codedesc', which equals the state full name.  We retrieve the data for the DataTable from SQL Server at app start-up and cache it for later use. 

So today I am working in the designer on a windows form.  This form has over 100 controls (tabs with controls).  I am resizing a combobox when all of a sudden the IDE flips, flicks and bam, ALL of the controls on the form are gone!  I shut down the IDE, reopen, same thing.  I had to do an Undo Checkout to get the old form and lose all my work.

The more I work wioth databinding, the more impressed I am.