Create Back-end Service

What Kind of Service

For this task, the first thing to do is to decide what kind of service to use.  That is, there is an architectural question that needs to be solved before the rest of the task can be completed.  So, what kind of service should I use?  I think I'll use a WCF service.

Location Lookup

I'd like to have a location (i.e., city) for each user and each group.  I figured that there ought to be some free web service that could be used.  It looks like I found one at webserviceX.net.  I think I'll give that a try.

Data Reading

I worked on the generic data reading problem.  It is highlighted in another post.

Several Additional Project Files

I added several additional project files for the database, data and engine layers.  These will, of course, be part of the service.