I have been developing with LINQ to SQL for about six months now on my website www.myfitnessjournal.com I use Linq to Sql for the DAL and have had no real issues at all. It has been great to work with although there were some tricks to things like transactions and updating data using WCF services but when I tried EF at the beginning of the project I found that there were some pretty important things missing that I needed, also I was using SQL server for the database so Linq to Sql was great for that. If I remember correctly some of the Date methods and String comparisons weren't completely supported yet in EF. Of course all I hear lately is that EF will eventually replace L2S but if you wait for that you can be certain some other mystery project will be almost ready to replace EF. So in other words I just used the tool that worked better for me. All of these things have a decent learning curve but if you learn L2S you won't have any problem moving to EF later.

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

I have been using discountasp.net for 2 years now without any problems, they always seem to have the latest .net technology available http://www.discountasp.net[^]

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

This won't help the housing market either since most newer homes have granite already installed. To think I have been complaining about my old formica countertops forever but didn't want the expense of upgrading. That is until the realize formica causes cancer as well!

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

Whats next? Air? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/garden/24granite.html?no_interstitial[^] Seriously, can we just stop with the daily you get cancer from x! It's getting to the point where you have to avoid living in order to be safe from things that potentially can harm you.

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

Didn't they kill the whole PlaysForSure program last year? Was there an api associated with it? I thought it was just a sales/marketing thing.

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

Have had a zune for about 6 months now. Use it pretty much every day. Seamless integration with SYNC (I have an 08 ford focus). Software to interface with it is not the best but it gets the job done. I wish they would release an api so we could write our own library management for the thing. Music sound quality is excellent although there is no real graphic equalizer. I was worried about that at first but the sound quality has been so good that I didn't really need it. I have the 8 GB version that was released late last year. Also my entire library is in wma format so that may be an important factor to consider. My wife has a similar ipod (Had to get that because it was available in pink!) and she hates it compared to the zune

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

Actually after a bit more research I discovered this http://dev.live.com/tools/idloginviewapi.aspx[^] Looks like it attempts to map live id to your existing login system. Perhaps this will be an answer. Does Open ID have support for this type of thing?

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

Well that's one of my biggest issues is how to integrate the live services when I already have a ton of users on my own login system. Everything I see only provides an iframe solution or complete redirect to windows live. I'm trying to avoid confusing users with multiple logins and at the same time not rewrite features that live services already provide. As far as comparing with Open ID, I don't have enough knowledge yet to say anything about it.

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

I have been looking at integration with Windows Live Services http://dev.live.com/[^] Has anybody tried using these? How well do they integrate in your web application? I'm trying to imagine allowing users that login to my site being able to update thier blogs but it seems like they would have already had to create one on windows live in the first place. There are alot of services available that would reduce the need for reinventing the wheel (chat, blog, etc...) I'm just looking to see how others are currently using the platform. It looks like there is alot of exciting stuff being created over there but integration with your own site isn't as seamless as I would like.

Nick Lecrenski Founder/Lead Developer http://www.myfitnessjournal.com

I did think about that but the model I will be using is a free website but paid WPF pro edition. I didn't think you could sell your software if you use those sites? There was a site years ago that let developers get together and create/sell software projects and that site would take care of the marketing aspect and award money depending on the amount of work performed by each team member. I think it was called Asyncrony or something like that but they aren't around any more. I always thought it was a cool idea

Thanks, I've been leaning towards a pro edition WPF/SQL Compact edition that I would sell since the web version is free. Adsense has not even come close to paying for the hosting/database fees so (I know some think it's evil to make money of this stuff) but that is the business model I have been working towards. Ultimately I want to create a article here (would be my first) going over the process of creating the site from start to finish. Just not the whole two year story :) If you do sign up feel free to let me know what you think. Ideas, suggestions or complaints. It's amazing to me how difficult it has been just getting feedback for this thing!

Thanks, I thought the hard part was working on it alone for two years, but it turns out the hardest part is getting people to try it :( I never was good at marketing

I thought about that but I think in order to have the responsiveness I am looking for I would need a local database like SQL CE. I thought i saw something about XBAP not allowing direct database connections or LINQ. Perhaps I am mistaken and that restriction is only related to silverlight?

I have been strongly considering creating a desktop/wpf version of my existing website. Are desktop applications still a good option anymore? It seems with WPF there would be all sorts of new and exciting applications coming out yet I still haven't really seen anything other than very basic samples. I know the popular thing to do lately is the ajax based web version of software and my site currently does this but I can't help thinking that the responsiveness of a web app just never feels as good as a desktop version. Perhaps it's just an old way of thinking and I'd end up just writing the app for myself but WPF really has some cool UI features that I would have thought by now would have brought back more desktop development. Any thoughts? If interested my site is in my sig and was written using asp.net and the ajax control toolkit with a SQL 2k5 backend Finally since I had to do the design, photoshop, backend, and all the coding on the site myself (Took way too long and probably should have been translated into an article here), I might look for some help with the wpf version, are there any sites other than rent a coder where I can get another developer to help out with the WPF version? http://www.myfitnessjournal.com[^] Free Online Fitness Journal

Cool i will do that then now that i have the ultimate permission:)

Thats the problem it's not really relevant to codeproject and i don't want to anger anyone. I'm just suprised there aren't alot of good sites to submit web pages to other than google and yahoo search engine stuff

Anyone know of a good place to get feedback for a new website? I created a new site and just want some feedback on it. It utilizes asp.net ajax. I'm not trying to advertise here so i won't even put the name of the site in this post. I'm just looking for a good forum to show the site to others

When writing asp.net sites, do you typically create a site in photoshop/fireworks and then export and create asp.net controls that provide functionality? Or do you layout controls on a web form first and then skin the form and controls with individual images? If so which way seems quicker?

I live in new england,US and have been here 28 years, never have i seen an entire winter go by where the largest amount of snow we had was 6 inches. The average temperature is 40 degrees and the snow last about 3 days before a large rain storm washes it away. However heating my home has been far less costly, i can go outside at night and not freeze to death. I don't like skiing or other snow activities. My wife also hates the snow. Mostly i don't like the fact that the days are short and nights are too cold to go outside and enjoy. The weird thing is nobody around here is talking about any special weather pattern causing this, so is this global warming or a fluke. Now i'm sure there will be devastating effects if global warming continues but if it means warm winters in new england i won't complain. Christmas day here was in the 50's Has winter hit where you are???

never heard of the principle, looks like i have some homework. I figured something was wrong, the objects are alike but not enough to work correctly with the inheritance. I'll continue looking at lsp to figure out how i would fix the sample i wrote. It just seems like based on what i've always been told truck would inherit from vehicle because it does share some similar properties. Thanks