5/7/2008 Meeting: Getting Started With LINQ

Please join us for a entertaining and interactive session! As always, we’ll have FREE food, drinks, and prizes for attending!

For our May, 2008 meeting, we're psyched to welcome Rob Vettor who will present a session over an innovative technology that you can use today with Visual Studio 2008/VB/C# feature - Language INtegrated Query - LINQ.

Topic:

Getting Started with LINQ

Date:

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Time:

6:00pm

Where:

Intuit's Headquarters in Plano Texas
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While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not. Today, binding these two platforms together results in a significant amount of lost productivity as well as a less than optimal solution. Come and take a detailed look at the “LINQ Project “ to see what Microsoft is doing to help bridge the mismatch between OO and relational data. We will take a close look at the following areas:

  • How LINQ manifests a move from an imperative to a declarative style of programming.
  • New language and framework extensions that provide a single, unified approach to querying data.
  • Examples of querying data from multiple data domains: In-memory, database, ADO.NET constructs and XML documents.
  • A look at the upcoming Microsoft Entity Framework.
  • How LINQ might fit into a multi-tiered application.

Be prepared for a solid overview with lots of code examples.

Rob Vettor is a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer, who has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob, an avid Toastmaster and ‘hacker golfer,’ founded the Dallas .NET Architecture User Group (http://www.dotnetarch.com) , and is a member of the Microsoft South Region Developer Guidance Council. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com.

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