This is the third part of a series of articles describing the development of a Model-View-Presenter (MVP) Framework on the .NET platform. It describes the development of a fully functional Windows Forms views engine.

Roger Jennings describes ADO.NET's data service and client-side components, provides details on data formats, and walks you through creating a data service. He explains how to access data from a browser by composing URI queries and how to write ADO.NET Data Service clients for Windows or Web Forms. He also demonstrates Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to REST query syntax and data updates with POST, PUT, and DELETE methods. Finally, he outlines a potential "ADO.NET Data Service Offline" feature and explains how ADO.NET Data Services will relate to SSDS when Microsoft releases the service for general use in 2009.

This is the first part of a series of articles describing the development of a Model-View-Presenter (MVP) Framework on the .NET platform. We discuss the basics in this part and move on to more advanced topics later.

Discover the tools in Visual Studio 2008 for creating and modifying cascading style sheets.

What happens when you need to return more than one value from a method call? One solution is for your method to return a complex data type, but this may not really fit what you need or may be overly complex. Another option is to return values through the parameters to the method. This article shows you how.

Is the continuous build model right for your shop?

Daniel Gidman shows you how to serialize and deserialize your objects simply and easily.

Take advantage of functional programming techniques like Filter, Map, and Reduce in your day-to-day business apps.

In part two of this series, Jon Person shows developers how to write GPS applications suitable for the real world by mastering GPS precision concepts. Source code includes a working NMEA interpreter and sample high-precision application in C# and VB.NET.

In this two-part series, Jon Person will show you how to write a commercial-grade GPS application.

Visual Studio 2008 automates the migration process and allows you to continue working with older versions of the .NET Framework. Tony Patton will ease your concerns about migrating to Visual Studio 2008 with this overview of what a migration entails.

Perry shares his take on the best LINQ to SQL features, walks you through the biggest changes from ObjectSpaces and more.