Opinions on AdventureWorks code sample from Microsoft

[davem1958]

Anyone have experience with the AdventureWorks sample application from Microsoft? It's found under SQL Server code samples, for no reason I can fathom.

In any case, I got it running on my box, and I'm noticing some inconsistencies where the documentation says one thing, and the code does something else. For example, the documentation describes a call to "HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile" for authentication, but no such method call is found in the code.

Perhaps this code sample has been orphaned? Is there a better example of a best-practice web application somewhere out there?

Thanks!