While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not. Often, binding these two platforms together can result in significant amounts of lost productivity and a less than optimal solution.

Come see how you can resolve this recurring theme by leveraging the ADO.NET Entity Framework as your Data Access Layer.

In this session, we'll…

·         Explore the Entity Framework and its related components

·         Design an Entity Data Model using the designer tools

·         Walk through a variety of examples of how to interact with the model

·         Demonstrate advanced mapping scenarios

·         Compare Entity Framework to LINQ-to-SQL

·         Show how to implement Entity Framework in a multi-tiered application

You'll walk-away with a clear understanding of how the Entity Framework can greatly simplify your DAL and enable you to program against a conceptual model of your data, versus the actual data store itself.