arrrrgh web apps
Writing apps for the webb is a challenging task. What takes a normal hour when creating "normal" apps takes four times when working a three tier webb-app. There are simply so many pits you can fall in.
In any case I thought I'd share some very interesting read-up.
First of all, creating forms: Read up on Rick Strahl's excellent piece at msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sv-se/magazine/cc163505(en-us).aspx
Then dwelve down into his weblog and you'll find an absolute excellent tool on how to create the windows classes directly from your database: http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/147.aspx.
So, after that we're on to Ajax. The resource for that is naturally http://asp.net.
There's a lot more. One needs to familiarize one self with css (zen-garden is excellent), sql calls, stored procedures, java-script, cookies, performance issues and not to forget loose binding. A web-app is always in a "new" state - there is very little you can do to compensate for the round-trips to the server side.
In the future I hope to share code when I get to hacking a Mercury web-service.
cheers for now / Peter