Populating controls in FormView Insert or Empty empty template with default values

FormView doesn't make it easy for a developer when he wants to populate the controls in a empty or insert template with default values.  After doing some search, I found out one way to accomplish this is to override ItemCreated event as follows:

        protected void fvMine_ItemCreated(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

//if the current mode in insert mode

              if (fvMine.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.Insert)

              {

//get a reference to the control

                            txt = (TextBox) fvMine.Row.FindControl("txtCity");

                            if (txt != null)

                            {

// populate it with a default value

                                txt.Text = "New York";

                            }

Delayed TextBox TextChanged event

I have a textbox that does a search upon TextChanged event firing.  However, I don't want it search for every character the users types unless the user is done with typing.  So I wanted to delay it from firing.  I found a great article here that describes exactly what I wanted.  It uses System.Timers.Timer but I changed it to System.Windows.Forms.Timer.

WCF Send/Receive Progress Update

After searching around the web, I didn't find any satifactory article.  So posted a question on StackOverflow.com.

WCF Message Send/Receive Progress

I've been working a project that involves sending/receiving messages to a server from a desktop application via a WCF webservice.  When transferring a large chunk of message, I'd like to display a progress indicator to the desktop user.  I'm going to do a little bit of research to find such a solution.