Julie Lerman coming to GANG
ADO.NET Entity Framework TalkThis is a must-see. Julie Lerman has been diving into the ADO.NET Entity Framework for quite some time, and she knows as much about it as anyone outside of Redmond. Here's the abstract:
The Entity Framework is the core of Microsoft's evolving data platform and has many layers of abstraction to give developers access to data, client-side views and schemas, as well as mapping of data to objects. This session will give you an understanding of what the Entity Framework is all about. We will inspect it's most important moving parts and learn basics of querying with Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities. You will also learn how to easily leverage its highest level of abstraction in common databinding scenarios. Lastly the session will tempt you with the potential of more complex scenarios and ways in which Microsoft is building services on top of the Entity Framework.
More information here: http://www.migang.org
And, if you are closer to Lansing than Southfield, she's speaking there on Thursday: http://www.glugnet.org/
Make the time to see it.