Sometimes the ASP.NET framework takes me to a dark dark place, where I wish I was back using in-line PHP, no entities and inline SQL statements.

I launched a dating network that way once... it ran for 2-3 years and amassed just over 30,000 signups.

I knew what I was doing was wrong, and in the end it didn't scale well for my ultimate goal - but damn - It bloody well got the job done...

But then I had big big plans and a switch to .NET was obvious, all that rich functionality - dynamically created WSDLs and an awesome IDE

But you had to let me down so so bad...

chris.