Speaker Bio: 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.
Summary: 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.