I have a .net project using SQL Server backend that I'm looking at localising. Handling localisation within .net is straightforward enough, got it managing the views, data annotations, messages etc.

A best practice when generating DataSet objects is to minimize the number of records returned by SqlDataAdapter objects. This works for VS.NET applications whose users have direct network connections ...

I am in an ongoing debate with my technical managers regarding accessing lookup tables and he keeps waving the "best practices" mantra at me but offers nothing concrete, I have several lookup tables ...