>Hey folks. I'm at a ASP.NET course for the week. The course is based on http://www.microsoft.com/TRAINCERT/SYLLABI/2310AFINAL.ASP
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>Cool stuff so far.

Day4 Blog:

- instructor says XML is easy (it is just text), the support technologies are more difficult
- some sites www.xml.com www.xmlpitstop.com
- datasets can read/write XML and move XML into a string variable
- saving XML to a dataset removes hierarchy and makes it sequential. To fix this use nested property of the datarelation object
- datalist control offers an table-based alternative to the datagrid. It can contain other controls
- webservices can be set to have a timeout
- server-side temporary cookies (by default) expire after 20 minutes (this can be changed) or when the browser is closed
- in a web farm a machine can be set to run the asp.net state service
- SQL Server can now be used to store state, ther is a script to create the database. Using SQL server allows state to be saved if there is a crash, unlike other methods which use memory only
- if you set cookieless=true then cookie data is inserted into the URL. Problems is though that max URL size is 255