A few weeks ago, an article appeared on O'Rielly that showed an example chat application that utilized Amazon's Simple Queue service to store chat messages. IMO, using a middle-ware Queuing system over a Web Service is a great idea (which was the motivation for me creating www.wsmq.com ), and...

A while back I posted about using an enum as a datasource for your drop-down lists, see Strongly-Type a DropDownList with Enumerated Types . As it turns out, the big drawback to this approach is that your DropDownList's text is limited to the text that you use in your enum. This is fine if your text...