Part 2 of the article is published. We enhanced the DataGridHelper control so that we can developer a data access page with paging, sorting, delete and updaing functionalities without writing a single line of code!

MSDN online published a great paper by Dino Esposito recently. The paper also points to a few other great papers on the provider model:

• Provider Model Design Pattern and Specification, Part 1
• Provider Design Pattern, Part 2
• Building Custom Providers for ASP.NET 2.0 Membership

I wrote this article for aspalliance. It is regarding of building a asp.net server control called DataGridHelper that takes care much of the repetitive coding in asp.net 1.x. Published for less than a week, the article is already among 1/3 of the articles in number of views and on the Popular Articles list. The Part 2 is coming soon.