Thursday, September 14, 2006

3-Tier ASP.NET Architecture on MSDN

After reading and playing around with the steps mentioned in Scott Mitchell's excellent tutorial on 3-Tier ASP.NET Architecture (the first one is here), coupled with my use of the Web Application Projects addin to VS2005 (found here), I found out a few tips and tricks along the way.

As a summary, the abovementioned series of tutorials discuss steps on how to create the ff:
- A DataAccessLayer (DAL) using a typed/custom DataSet.
- A BusinessLogicLayer (BLL) that's layered on top of the DAL. This is basically a thin wrapper over the DAL.
- A Presentation Layer (PL) using ASP.NET with ObjectDataSource control calling the BLL.


What a line of code

I didn't know this line of code (in any language) will make sense but apparently it does: auto l = [](){}; Look at all those bracke...