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Enterprise Edition Tips

Level 200 (Intermediate)

• Supporting Disconnected Applications

Level 300 (Experienced)

• Dynamic Entity Types
• Extract Maximum Data Retrieval Performance With a Remote Service Method
• Web Service Publishing

Professional Edition Tips

Level 300 (Experienced)

• Asynchronous Queries
• Data Source Extensions
• Validation through Verification

All Editions Tips

Level 100 (Introductory)

• Binding a Business Object Property To a Set of .NET RadioButtons
• Building a Performant and Responsive Enterprise Application
• ContextSwitchDeadlock in Visual Studio 2005
• Managing Class Hierarchies with Class View
• Query Strategies
• Unnatural Keys: When Customer's Care About Primary Key Value
• Use ReplaceRange()To Populate Your EntityList
• The Document Outline Window
• What is My DevForce Application Doing? Use the TraceViewer to Find Out!
• Working with a ReadOnlyEntityList

Level 200 (Intermediate)

• Cascading Deletes
• Checkpointing
• Concurrency Checking with the SQL Server Timestamp
• DebuggingNonUserCode
• I Break For Exceptions
• Improve Your Guid Key Performance with GuidCombs
• Keep your list current with the EntityListManager
• Refactoring Your User Interface with DataConverters and ViewDescriptors
• Saving and Restoring the Cache
• Span Queries
• Split Button Configuration
• Refreshing Dependent Parents
• The BindableList(of T)
• Turbocharge Your Data Grid with a Span Query
• Use Validate To Complete Databinding
• Working with Crystal Reports

Level 300 (Experienced)

• Add a Global Data Filter Using QuerySecurityCheck()
• Authentication in DevForce
• Binding User-Defined Fields to Controls in Your User Interface
• Disconnected Authentication in a DevForce App
• Generic, Reusable Multi-Property Sorter
• How to prevent the debugger
• ListBox Unbound - Programming List Controls the DevForce Way
• Working with User-Defined Fields

Level 400 (Advanced/Expert)

• Concurrency in Master / Detail Relationships
• Create a Generic when T is unknown