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Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config

This article shows a good way to manage connection string and appsettings values in your web.config file. It shows how to use include files and talks about how to set defaults so moving to production from testing or development can be less painful

How to Get the DataItem out of a ListView in Asp.Net 3.5 (compared to Repeater)

See how to get the DataItem out of a ListView Control which is part of asp.net 3.5. Compare ListView to repeater in this regard.

How to know if LINQ is working efficiently with SQL?

In this post, we look at how to log from LINQ to SQL to see the actual sql generated by the LINQ engine.