I never thought to try the "Virgin" solution. I am fairly certain that the problem is within my environment. I wasn't complaining though because all-in-all I do like the MS tool set. I am still on XP Pro. What are your thoughts about upgrading to Vista?

It is actually sitting there doing nothing special. I close all of my projects and sometimes just forget to close VS 2008. It really is not a big deal and I have never lost any data. The problem may very well be elsewhere. I appreciate all of the input though.

I haven't added any third party plug ins.

I agree 100%. This site is great and I generally check here first. Please keep up the great work gentlemen and ladies.

This is my first web service deployment and something has me confused. Actually a lot of things have me confused but that is another discussion): I am attempting to return a Linq XDocument from the call but apparently XDocuments are not serializable. I found a small C# class which serializes the document but now my questiions are: 1. What type is returned after serialization? 2. How do I put it back into XML form 3. Why would an XDocument not be serializable (Rhetorical question)? Michael

Simple. I know that it will shut itself down. (I work for myself and no one else is here)

I like the new tag line :laugh:

I live in Florida and we have gators in the back yard. Snakes too. I guess that I don't see the problem ;)

My VS 2008 crashes every day. It is actually not a big deal because it has the decency to do so in the middle of the night (I leave my system on). I have learned to save everything often. All in all though I do like the product and I really like Linq.

I am trying to return Count(*), cast to a String and assign the value to Label1.Text. I am a bit stuck on the C# syntax because I am new to C#. This is what my research has produced thus far: protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnString)) { //String newTagName = txtParm.Text; int DOWcount = 0; SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT count(*)FROM RealTime WHERE DATEPART (d,CallStartTime) = DATEPART(d,getdate())", conn); cmd.Parameters.Count; conn.Open(); DOWcount = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); Label1.Text = DOWCount.ToString(); I know that I am not using the "cmd" correctly. Can anyone of the experts out there steer me in the right direction?