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The Atlas HoverMenuExtender is one of my favourite controllers in the Atlas toolkit. I've often thought about having all those minor details off the main screen, but still have them easily and quickly accessible. I see this control as a nice easy way to do this, so I'll show you how I'd do that.

What is it?

The Atlas HoverMenuExtender gives you a way to easily add a panel with extra content to a control, without clutteruing up the screen. You can bind all the data in your grid, while at the same time binding your hover menu panel, therefore keeping all you code in one simple place but adding nice functionality.

Dino Esposito is a well know .NET author and everything seems to be so clear after reading some of his articles.

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Thanks to Bipin for this! 

If you struggle with the new architecture database model in ASP.NET 2.0 maybe you should read this excellent article by Bipin Joshi on N-Tier architecture for ASP.Net 2.0