Back in the version 1.x days of ASP.NET I wrote a 16-part article series on the DataGrid Web control, aptly titled, An Extensive Examination of the DataGrid Web Control. Writing such a lengthy article in piecemeal makes the article navigation a bit hard. The entire series is composed of 16 articles (referred to as Part 1, Part 2, etc.), and each article may consists of various pages, each page referred to as a “part.” Whoops, poor wood choice on my part. :-p
Another two challenges was that it was impossible for readers to keep up with the article short of subscribing to the 4Guys newsletter or the main RSS feed. There was no way for readers who just wanted to know when a new article in the series was being published to be alerted upon publication. Finally, when reaching the end of one article in the series, it was impossible to immediately jump to the next article in the series, since the index of all of the parts was only shown at the beginning of each article.
As I've started creating ASP.NET version 2.0 content on 4Guys, I've been creating more article series. Personally, I don't see any way around it - there's so much 2.0 information and each topic has an amazing breadth of features and nooks and crannies to explore, that it's seemingly impossible to just have one article on site navigation, or callback scripts, or membership, or the provider model, and so on. Last month I started my first article series on 2.0 material, beginning by Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Site Navigation, of which there is currently both a Part 1 and Part 2. Tomorrow's front-page 4Guys article will be Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile.
With both of these new article series - and upcoming ones - I'm including the full article index at the start and ends of the articles. Additionally, I've added a specific RSS feed for each series. This allows those interested to be alerted when a new article in the series is published. Thanks to XSLT stylesheets, these RSS feeds also provide a one-stop place to see a complete list of all of the articles in the series along with synopses. Check out the site navigation feed and membership, roles, and profile feed.
Enjoy!