The Western Mass .NET Users Group is hosting its next monthly meeting Tuesday, March 4th at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA. Free Coffee, Pizza, and Drinks will be provided compliments of MassMutual. Please note the location - directions are below.
LINQ-to-SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Can you imagine being able to drag & drop your DAL and even your BUSINESS ENTITIES into your application - without coding? Dan Caron will present Microsoft's Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools - LINQ-to-SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. We will create two simple and similar applications using the .NET 3.5 Framework - one using LINQ-to-SQL and the other using the Entity Framework. Using these two applications as a focal point, we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these two ORM technologies. As a natural part of covering these technologies, we will also be discussing Microsoft's Language Integerated Query (LINQ) technology.
About Dan Caron
Dan Caron is MassMutual's Professional .NET Leader and published author. With MassMutual, Dan leads the technical direction for Microsoft .NET application development for the enterprise. For over a dozen years, he has been designing and developing applications with programming technologies that include Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL and AJAX. Dan is also the new leader of the Western Mass. .NET Users Group.
Dan is an author of two technical books (Professional DotNetNuke 4.0 and DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals). He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source portal project since the core team was founded in 2003. Some of his noteworthy contributions include the exception handling framework, event logging provider, event viewer, module security redesign, web-farm support, namespace hierarchy organization and the event scheduler. Dan is now an alumnus of the DotNetNuke Core Team and Board of Directors. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2005 and 2006.
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Meeting Details
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 PM
MassMutual Learning & Conference Center
350 Memorial Drive
Chicopee, MA 01020
Telephone: (413) 598-9898
From the West
Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.
From the East
Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.
From the South
Take I-91 North
to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6
(Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take
a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic
light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a
Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance.
If you have questions, please direct them to:
Dan Caron
User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group