GL.net Group Meeting #16 - 26 May 2010

Summary

Eric Nelson with his last ever Entity Framework in .NET 4 session. If you haven't seen it this is your last chance. Don't miss it!

Abstract

This presentation offers an in-depth discussion demonstrating the new capabilities of the Entity Framework that will ship with Visual Studio 2010. The second release of the Entity Framework focuses on addressing two primary customer scenarios: Domain-Centric application development (TDD/DDD) and the traditional Data-Centric Web application "Forms over Data". This is an in-depth feature overview covering: N-Tier, T4 Templates, POCO, FKs, Mapping, Metadata, etc..

Bio

After many years of developing on UNIX/RDBMS (and being able to get mortgages) Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist (and stopped being able to get mortgages due to his new 'unusual job title' in the words of his bank manager). He has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies - from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. Along the way he has met lots of smart and fun developers - and been completely stumped by many of their questions! In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group. Currently Eric’s interests include digging into LINQ to Entities, ADO.NET Data Services and switching from C# to Visual Basic development. At home, he battles rat infestations, comes second to the family dog and uses any spare moments he has after 10pm to team up and play online with and against friends - keep an eye out for 'erknel' and say 'hi'.

Location

Symantec/MessageLabs
1240 Lansdowne Court
Gloucester Business Park, Gloucester, GL3 4AB

Agenda

6:00pm - Doors Open
6:30pm - Meeting Begins: Welcome and Grok Talk
7:00pm - Main Presentation - Part 1
7:50pm - Break
8:10pm - Main Presentation - Part 2
9:00pm - Presentation Ends. Retire to bar.

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