I'll be heading to Miramar, FL on July 8th [http://fladotnet.com/] for the local .NET User Group meeting to speak to the group about the Entity Framework and LINQ. I "hope" the final bits are released by then, but not on July 8th, please (yikes!). I went through a major overhaul of my

I've prepared dozens of articles and presentations on the Entity Framework over the past year and a half and the questions always start with "Why would I want to use this instead of XYZ?" LINQ to SQL, a variety of ORM tools, straight up ADO.NET, custom data layers, CSLA.NET and this li

I'll be speaking at DevConnections [http://www.devconnections.com] in Las Vegas this Fall along with others Julie Lerman [http://www.thedatafarm.com] and Paul Litwin [http://aspadvice.com/blogs/plitwin]. The 3 topics I will be presenting are: * Data Access with Silverlight 2 * Integrating En

I just finished writing the first draft of a sample I am including in my upcoming book tentatively titled Data Access with Silverlight 2 by O'Reilly [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/as-it-once-was-i-am-writing-a-book/]. Without giving too much away yet since the final details of the contract are no

Tonight I will be joining the Sarasota SQL Server User group [http://sarasotasql.net/] and the Sarasota .NET User group [http://www.sarasotadev.net/] at their combined May 2008 meeting. I will be presenting the Entity Framework and LINQ using the new bits that came out 2 days ago on Monday including