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Raymond Starkey

Mike Tawlty is the brightest and most professional presenter I have ever seen - just great.

Chris Sexton

This small, perfectly formed nugget was the "Ronseal" of nuggets - did exactly what it said on the tin! Well delivered John.

David Tims

Mike did a fantastic job of explaining the Entity Framework. He used the time effectively and although the subject scope was large he managed to cram all the basics into his presentation. I will be stopping off at his website to find out the rest!

Chris Dunn

Really interesting stuff. A lot to cover in a short time. Mike is a great speaker though, and I really came away with a much better idea of what EF is all about.

David Matthews-Gore

Excellent, I don't think this could have been improved, maybe apart from another hour or so.

Ian Russell

Excellent session; It's a pity that we couldn't have gone on for another hour to cover more of the features.

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Event: From here to Entity

Microsoft's Mike Taulty pops along to Coventry to tell us about the ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework, how it works and why it's important. Can he beat Daniel's high scoring VS2008 session - The gloves are off and the laptops are on!. We'll also have a nugget and some pizza.

If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Region:	Coventry
Location:	Coventry Flying Club Coventry Aero Club Rowley Road Coventry CV3 4FR
Time:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Breakdown

John Price	The .NET Framework Exposed
How did they do that? Have you ever wondered whats behind ‘new’ or what happens when you do a file.open? If so, Microsoft have released the source code for the .net framework. While debugging, you can step into the framework functions and look exactly how the Microsoft programmers implemented each function. This is a short nugget to show you how to configure your visual studio 2008 to take advantage of this

Mike Taulty	ADO.NET Entity Framework
ADO.NET Version 3.0 raises the level of abstraction at which we deal with relational data in applications by adding a new managed provider which uses a conceptual model which it maps to the actual tables and views of your database schema. This has the advantage of providing the Entity Relationship model that application developers want to code against whilst isolating the application code from the specific language (e.g. T-SQL, PL/SQL) and engine (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle) of the store. In this session we’ll take a good look at the Entity Framework from its mapping layer through to its EntitySQL language and on to its Object Relational Mapping capabilities and LINQ.