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2 days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 18th June 2008 5:45pm - 9:00pm Microsoft, Sydney 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

Do you want a connection with that? (An introduction to building applications that don’t rely on a network connection) by Nick Randolph

Most developers have this obsession with building applications that connect directly to a database. Whether they be a web application or a rich client application, connecting directly or via a web service, the reality is that these applications need to be served with a reliable connection. Using some of the latest additions to the .NET Framework this session will walk you through building applications that will continue to work long after your connection drops out. You’ll see how easily the ADO.NET Synchronisation Services can be configured to establish a local cache for your data and how the Client Application Services will help you extend your existing security infrastructure to include your occasionally connected application.

‘LINQ to SQL’ vs ‘LINQ to Entities’ by Adam Cogan

Come hear Adam Cogan demonstrate Visual Studio 2008 using LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities.

LINQ is the future of ORM on the .NET platform and, with the release of Visual Studio 2008, we have a new way of working with databases. In this presentation you will learn about the different types of LINQ and how to use LINQ to quickly build data-driven applications. Adam will present on LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities showing the advantages and disadvantages of using in your .NET applications. You will also see how the LINQ syntax can easily make your queries more manageable and strongly typed for compile time checking.

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Tech Breakfast

11 days to go SYDNEY: ‘LINQ to SQL’ vs ‘LINQ to Entities’ Friday, 27th June 2008 8:00am-11:00am

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a key innovation introduced with .NET 3.0 which brings SQL-style query expressions into VB and C#.

In this session Adam will compare ‘LINQ to SQL’ and ‘LINQ to Entities’ showing the strengths and weaknesses of each and in what situations each should be used, providing you with a roadmap of what tools/techniques should be used in what situations.

Adam’s discussion will include:

• Introduction to both ‘LINQ to SQL’ and ‘LINQ to Entities’
• Building models in the data designers of each framework
• Mapping your database in a conceptual schema and modifying the schema
• Hooking up your application to your new data layer
• Show the advantages of LINQ over more traditional ADO.NET methods

To finish Adam will build an application that uses both data layers and how easily you can make your applications data aware.

39 days to go SYDNEY: Hardcore LINQ to Entities Friday, 25th July 2008 8:00am-11:00am

Adam will take a deep dive into LINQ to Entities showing you best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and answers to the most frequently asked questions, telling you exactly what you need to know. Adam will pull apart all the key components of the LINQ to Entities framework, discussing and showing how each part integrates with each other, and how you can quickly create and modify your data access conceptual schema.

This session will provide samples on how you can use the power of LINQ plus the new ADO.NET Entity Framework, to build advanced and fully featured data access layers immediately, without pain.

74 days to go SYDNEY: Build a Silverlight Web Application by Greg Harris Friday, 29th August 2008 8:00am-11:00am

Now that we have heard what Silverlight can do for our web sites, lets get down to writing some real code and implement a real Silverlight based web application, that you can use on your web sites.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to create their own Silverlight application.

To get the most out of the session, attendees should bring their own development laptop.

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