One useful little control we wrote for ASP.NET is our BindOnPreRender control. It simply calls DataBind() on itself at PreRender.
Its utility may not be obvious. This is sort of related to my post on WebForms DataBinding. Binding is better. It lets us bind properties to objects in our markup, which helps reduce code-behind. I’m not [...]
Binding. I’ve got a lot of feelings about ASP.Net databinding. Mostly bad. I think this is part of the reason people wanted to move to MVC. Databinding, validation, conversion, and persistence are all chained together and ultimately comprise the majority of any application. Really. If a platform doesn’t do databinding well, it will probably be [...]