Add a detailsview grid to the gridview page. There are plenty of examples on MSDN

I'm sitting at work trying to figure out the best way to build a dynamic web registration form where the user can basically build the registration form using a Windows application by choosing the field or whatever and they get added to the db and the web page looks at the db and build the registration page. I really have no other idea as how to do this but that. My only problem is the user has to be able to customize the field name and type from within this client app. I'm trying to get other ideas so I will not create something ugly. Is there a cleaner, more efficient way to do this? Any idea welcome

And I'm an advocate for testing your web applications in the four major browsers: 1. IE 2. Firefox 3. Safari 4. Chrome I recently had a Javascript error in my page and I used: IE 7 - Did not break the page - This is why I love IE. It hides bad developers' mistakes :) IE 8 - Broke the page but did not report the error Firefox 3.0.3 - Broke the page but did not report the error in the error console Chrome - Broke the page and reported the error! I was not a big fan of Chrome at first. I taught it was a Firefox clone. But because of this I might jump on the Google bandwagon. :)

It's funny to see people talking about the MVC design pattern like it came out just yesterday. I know it's been around over 10 years years! Also it's a design pattern. ASP.NET is a technology. How do they relate? The only reason people are talking about it now because of Microsoft Marketing. You can argue separation of concerns and all that crap. It would be hard pressed for anyone to justify the value in using MVC over other patterns. What question was actually confusing but I get what the person is asking. My answer learn both. Like someone mentioned before, when learning ASP.NET make sure you fully grasp the page lifecycle stuff. Very important.

Siena, How did you all handle offline mode? The way you described limits them to only being able use the CMS piece while online. Unless the Windows Form program also had the same functionality as the web app.

siena wrote:

I did a contact management system about 12 months ago and did exactly what you describe. The users access the system via the web and the administrators access the system via a Windows Forms program which uses a web service.

Now this is the way to go! We currently have a Windows Forms CMS that is a bunch of crap! It was developed before I got here. It has an annoying limitation, that is currently giving us problems, that you have to VPN into the network to get updates! Sometimes you can get caught up in the web hype and it will mess up your design. Windows apps are still useful. Microsoft seems to be investing alot of time and money into it these days with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

Yes. I do not like to work on a project using old technologies and methods. In I.T. its important to keep up with the latest technologies. Unless you are making alot of money writing COBOL