LINQ - Language INtegrated Query for .NET

Monday, February 23, 2009, at Compuware in Durham

Note the date change! Fourth Monday this month. We'll be back to the regular schedule next month.

This month we'll get started on the Entity Framework. We'll start with basic programming, so that you should feel comfortable setting up projects with the Entity Framework and exploring its capabilities.

• LINQ queries
• Introduction to Entity SQL
• Introduction to the Visual Designer
• Basic CRUD (ignoring n-tier issues and concurrency, for now)
• Key differences between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to EF, such as
  • Lazy loading and eager loading
  • Turning off object tracking

Code is (finally) available here. Note that there's a folder called "Databases" that has scripts to build the databases we'll use for the examples. The scripts expect a folder at c:\Databases to put the new database files in.

See you there!