Hi , I am currently developing a Web application (like mint.com). I have plans to go with freemium model[](free memberships for using all the features). And once my application gets popularized I want to add premium features and make the subscriber pay for it. My question is how can I support myself during the initial stage(server cost and customer support cost). I thought of going with ad supported model for the freemium stage. Can I use Google adsense for displaying ads. Is google adsense applicable for web applications or only for blogs and forums. If you have done something similar please give me some pointers on this to go ahead.

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I work for a big software services company($6 billion enterprise). I have been asked to conduct interviews for developer and senior developer positions for .net I have some experience with selecting people for my own startup(earlier). I would like to know are there any guidelines which I need to follow to conduct this interview. please let me know about any of your personal techniques you follow to find the best person. Do share any pleasant :laugh: or not so pleasant:mad: experience you had while interviewing.

'Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.' Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

No I am not looking for loginviewcontrol. say for example:- let us have 2 roles clerk and approver. say clerk has rights to create order and edit order approver has rights to only approve order when a user with clerk credentials logs in only create and edit buttons to be available if he is approver only approve button to be available. lovinviewcontrol will do the trick for implementing this. but my requirement is if someone with the role of clerk and approver(multiple roles to the same user) logs in he must have create,edit and approve all the buttons available. how can I implement this????

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Hi, I am trying to create an N-tire windows application using the ADO.net Entity framework. If I use Entity framework will my application be database agnostic. My application will be used with sql server compact edition and when I need to scale up I need to use the application with Sql server 2008 express edition. How much additional work will be involved if I need to accomplish the above? Pointers and references in this directions will be deeply appreciated. J.Anandarajeshwaran WWW.BeginWithDisbelief.com

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Hi, I am working on an ASP.net application with 3.5 framework. I need to implement control level role management i.e: the ability to hide or disable a control based on the users role or group credentials. Since I need to do this across all controls in the page I want a simple framework based on which I can implement this across the application without much effort and uniform accross the app. I am using windows authentication and sql server provided role management for authentication and role management. Pointers and references in this directions will be deeply appreciated. J.Anandarajeshwaran WWW.BeginWithDisbelief.com

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Hi all, I am using windows authentication in my web application. I use SqlRoleProvider for implementing role management. After the authentication is done the navigation menu is generated based on the SqlRoleProvider. The above Role management works fine if the user has a single role assigned to him. How to handle the role management if the user is mapped against multiple roles. for example : the role clerk has access to create screen and the role admin has access to approve screen If a user is assigned role as clerk and admin he should be able to view both the screens. how can I achieve this. Is there any way I can dynamically generate the navigation menu.

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for the first question do you suggest to me to have a table design as suggested here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlgetstarted/thread/9b781fae-a12d-4405-9a6e-9dd5421b4fc4/[^] Fields FieldID FieldName 1 Website 2 Home Phone 3 MSN (the fieldnames will be user created) Field Values ContactID FieldID FieldValue X 1 Hotmail.com X 3 Abc Y 2 65766786786 Y 1 msn.com have I understook properly. or haven't I :confused: the solution for my second requirement works like a breeze :cool:(yikes why didnt I think of this)

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Hi all, I would like to get your help and guidance in implementing the following requirements. please consider the following situation. We have an address book application. The app will have fields like name/age/Sex by default. I want to give the user the freedom to add his own fields to the application. Like website address/email etc. This wil be decided by the user while the sets up the application for the first time. I have a clear understanding of doing this at the UI level(using dynamic controls to hold the value) how can the same be handled at the database level? Like how should the table be designed to accomodate this dynamic column creation. my second requirement is While we search our inbox in GMAIL using the default search box(not the advanced options) we key in the keyword. And gmail returns the results irrespective of where the search keyword appears( it may be in the subject line/ message body/from email address etc.) I want the same feature be implemented in a windows application( I want the search to be done against all the columns in a given table or given set of tables). www.BeginWithDisbelief.com

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Hi , Let me make myself clear something first before proceeding with this post I don't want to create any new architecture or framework or design pattern. I want to make use of the existing tools and come up with a poc. Now let me explain the problem statement Requirement:- to build a windows app Technologies and database used:- Visual studio express edition 2008/ C#/ winforms or WPF/ sql server compact edition/if it is a multi use application SQL server Express edition will be used The application will be very simple with not more than 20screens. The underlying database will contain not more that 25tables. Even if it is a multiuser application the number of user will not be more than 5 at a time. The application will be used by a large number of people so bug fixing and introducing new features should be a breeze. The app will be having basic CRUD screens and the Business logic involved will not be too complex. To achieve this even if a Learning curve is involved it is acceptable. The time to market of the resultant should be very less. I want to develop the app for the above scenario. My goal is to develop a application with minimum number of lines of code. I Binged and found a lot of results like to use N-hibernate for ORMapping/or use Microsoft Enterprise library/Prism framework etc., I would like to know which framework or design pattern should I use to achieve the above functionality with least coding. I don't want to go with any third party tools. Pointers would be welcome. I want to develop and give it to the open source community as a POC for fast and effective programming for small scale applications.

when I read what you have written I feel like I have written myself. I have 8 years of experience . I had my own software company startup. But now I have closed it up and working for a software giant. I like working on a computer but as you said I am not a techie. I am also a c# developer. I face the dilemma similar to you but I have learnt that this is how it is going to go ahead. I cant waste all my experiences and go in to a new career. But no body stops me from having a parallel career. I like writing a lot. I like to speak on politics and spirituality so I have started my own website www.BeginWithDisbelief.com[^] here I go ahead with a career I like. It does not affect my actual way of life. I have done this very recently and I need to put a lot of work into it. This is how I like the change to be maybe you too can follow the same. dont waste those long years of experience you have acquired