Introduction

I would like to set the text value on a textbox control. It sounds easy enough. First, I would like to create a textbox web control then I would like to access one of its properties "Text" and set the text to "Hello World". Well what do you need to do to write your code in a generic way so you are can abstraction of the fact that the web control is actually a text box, it could be any web control.

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It's been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we'll go with a volleyball theme for this post.

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So here's the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool data access features, you decide to apply a liberal use of the ObjectDataSource for its ability to take care of the paging and sorting calls for you. Now, you begin to convert your site to a service oriented back end and you wonder how you're going to make calls against your web service. You have a few options in front of you. You can create a thin facade layer that will act as a liaison between your presentation code and your service layer calls, and hook your ObjectDataSource to that. This works especially well when you have a complex object model that makes use of the web service calls behind the scenes. It's also beneficial when you are generating your proxy classes from metadata or contacting a foreign web service. In the scenario I'm going to demonstrate here, I'm referencing a shared contract and service library, so I'll be using using the ObjectDataSource to make direct calls to ChannelFactory<T> for this example.

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