ADO.NET Entity Framework - Joe Mayo & Steve
(Note we are meeting in room ECCR-105 not ECCR-200)

Intended Audience:
Software developers, application architects, designers with some prior experience with .NET.
Level: 200 (with small amounts of advanced, 300-400, topics - broad appeal)

Description:
The Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new Object Persistence Framework (OPF) that will help developers manage data from an object-oriented perspective. In this presentation, Joe Mayo will show you how to use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to create an Entity Data Model (EDM), how to manipulate the EDM, and how to use LINQ to Entities for querying EDM data. Join us for lively discussion about bottom-up vs. top-down architectures and how the ADO.NET Entity Framework fits into your future application development scenarios.

Topics:
- Show how to get started with it (installation pieces for beta)
- Import a database
- Show some console based apps demonstrating navigation
- Show some LINQ examples demonstrating binding to web forms
- Show updating
- Show how partial classes can be used to implement / enforce business rules
- Discuss some of the current limitations (many to many relationships for example)

- The Top-down approach to creating custom entities (I’m assuming that you’ll be generating entities from a DB – bottom-up).
- Inheritance Hierarchies
- Lazy/greedy loading
- Optimistic/Pessimistic Concurrency Resolution
- Using ADO.NET Entity Framework as data source for ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria)
- Connect to Data Services from Web Page javascript.

Presenter:
Joe Mayo is an author, instructor, and consultant, specializing in Microsoft .NET technologies. His books include C# Unleashed/Sams Publishing, C#Builder Kick Start/Sams Publishing, and he is a co-author of ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips. He is also a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. Joe is President of Mayo Software Consulting, Inc., a custom software development company focused on delighting customers with exceptional service.

Steven Dzilvelis fell in love with computers in 1980, and began developing
business applications after graduating high school in 1983. His development
experience spans from accounting to insurance to E911 call centers and from
COBOL to .NET. With over 20 years of applied technology experience, he
currently works as senior sales engineer for ViaWest where he helps
developers and CXOs alike as they migrate to complex managed hosting. Steve
was featured in the acclaimed geek book "Dating Design Patterns" which
exposed the great myth that design patterns were codified by the Gang of
Four for software development instead of cultivating personal relationships.
Aside from technology, Steve is passionate about snowboarding, ultimate
Frisbee, chocolate, Guinness, and his Greek heritage.

Topics:
ADO.NET Entity Framework
LINQ

Links:
Mayo Software

What is on the Calendar?

Description:
The Code Trip is a 22-city tour being done by the evangelism team at Microsoft. The tour started immediately following the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. Come join the Boulder .NET user group for a discussion on some of the newest Microsoft technologies. Learn what is powering some of the Code Trip systems with WPF and Silverlight. We’ll bring stuff to give away and we’ll find some place to have a geek dinner afterwards for those who would like to join us. If you are doing something great with .NET technologies, we want to hear from you as well! We’re video logging the entire trip and want to give developers a chance to share their story. Come join the Boulder .NET user group! We'll also be bringing the latest from MIX08, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, Silverlight, etc.!

http://thecodetrip.com/

What's a Code Trip? Think of it like Cannonball Run. Only slower, and geekier. We sat around on a campfire burning copies of Microsoft Bob a while back and decided we needed to hit the streets. We want to get out to developers and hear some stories and have some fun (JD wants to blow stuff up, so we're trying to work that in). Really, it is going to be what you tell us it is. One RV, bunch of geeks, lots o' code. Hop on the bus!

Presenters:
Tim Heuer
Jason Mauer
Anand Iyer
Woody Pewitt
Lynn Langit
Rob Bagby
Mithun Dhar
JD "Primetime" Lewin