This post will explain two different ways to bind a GridView (or DetailsView, or any other NamingContainer) to its EntityDataSource when your filtering/search controls are in the header row. This method can be used to break out of pretty much any NamingContainer and assign values to a control that’s on the form (same level as your dataSource).

This post will outline how to write a webservice for an AJAX AutoCompleteExtender that searches multiple database fields/entity scalar properties.

This post explains how to modify the AjaxControlToolkit to allow arbitrary HTML to be displayed in an autoCompleteExtender dropdown. Can be used to show images, formatted text, etc, while retaining the key/value pair of an AutoCompleteItem.

This post shows how to use a stored proc to insert an entity into your database and return the new identity.

This post will show you how to write an .asmx web service to return a list of values for the AJAX Control Toolkit’s AutoCompleteExtender, querying an ado.net EF entity set.