I'll be giving a few Silverlight talks in the coming months, the first of which is for our local CNY .NET Developer Group. And I was thinking, I really need something a bit more data oriented than the games I have been working on... Something with a web service and LINQ, something showing JSON going over the wire, something with.... BEER!!!

And so was born Andy's Fridge. This is a mini (right now anyway) beer database that uses a Web Service with SQL Server back-end. If the web service is unavailable, a cached Xml file is used instead.

One of the neat dynamic things about Andy's Fridge is that the labels are stored as image Url's in the database and loaded onto the bottles at runtime, so you have kind of a beer mashup. The database is very simple - only one table in fact. And yeah, I need to add more beers so if you have any favorites let me know so I can both sample them and add them to the DB.

I don't want to give too many details away, you will have to come to one of my talks for that! But in the meantime, feel free to snag the code and take a look.

And no, beer isn't the only thing I keep in my fridge. I have mustard and ketchup too.