I've finally got my new blog finished and uploaded, and here it is. Actually, once I had finished my personal blog, this one was just a case of altering the stylesheet and adding some bells and whistles, and I was good to go.

I've dumped Wordpress in favour of a custom implementation; I didn't need all the gubbins that Wordpress provided and since the advent of Linq and Linq To Sql I was able to find the time to complete such a project to my satisfaction. This time around, I'm using .Net 3.5, Linq To Sql and Sql Server and a whole lot of custom code.

These two sites make use of the UrlRewriter.Net library, which is a must-have bit of code. I also employ this neat trick of storing the Asp.Net viewstate on the server, which can reduce the page size considerably.

I also created a base library for all my L2SQL data context needs, and I'll be writing about that shortly. I used it as a base for all my middle-tier data entity 'managers' to provide some uniformity when querying data, and also to manage the persistance of the data context.

One thing left to implement is pingbacks, which should be useful should anyone feel the need to link to my site. It would make an interesting project though.

Just a quick post to say that LinqToLfsWorld 1.0.2 has been released - you can grab it from the project homepage.

This version of the library adds:

• Support for serialization and deserialization to/from Xml and Json
• A new demo website page, demonstrating the serialization features.
• Some helper constants for use in your car type, track ident and steering method queries
• A couple of bug fixes

The entity classes also support exposure through WCF services - I haven't added a test for this scenario yet to the project, but have verified in my own quick test project that it does work as expected.

I've written a more detailed account of how the serialization works on the 1.0.2 download page.

In this post I'm going to show you all the different types of queries you can perform with LinqToLfsWorld. For an overview of what the library is and how it works, please feel free to read an earlier blog post which takes you through the demo website (included with the library download file).

The Queries

With the library you can perform all the queries that you would normally be able to using a plain url to LfsWorld (according to v1.4 of the pubstat service, which is the latest version at the time of release). These queries are accessed through the LfsWorldContext. All the examples below assume I have already initialised my context with the name lfswContext, and called Dispose() when I've finished with it. Disposing the context is important so that it can free up memory and unregister internal event handlers. If you don't dispose the context, you might find some weird things happening if you've handled the context's RequestMade event.

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