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 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.

This post will show you how to use the AJAX Control Toolkit’s AutoCompleteExtender and a very simple javascript call to save a key/value to an asp.net hidden field.

This post shows you how to access the GAC like any normal directory so you can simply right-click and copy DLLs.

This post shows you how to create Mail-Enabled Universal Distribution Groups in Exchange 2007 using MIIS 2003 (Microsoft Identity Integration Server). Works for Universal Security Groups as well.