For all those who attended my sessions "The Buzzword Puzzle: Web technology integration" at Microsoft DevDays 2009 or anyone else who is interested the resources and screencast are available for download below.

The blurb for the presentation goes as follows: "We often see various web technologies shown off in isolation as they come out but never really see them operating together to form a complete solution. This presentation will introduce the ease with which various Microsoft technologies integrate including Silverlight 2, AJAX, WCF, jQuery and more!"

Please send me any questions you may have about the talk. Hope that you enjoyed it!

The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – ScreenCast
The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – Slides
The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – Demo

For all those who attended my sessions "Entity Framework: A scenic tour" at Microsoft DevDays 2009 or anyone else who is interested the resources and screencast are available for download below.

The blurb for the presentation goes as follows: "Join us on an introductory tour of the ADO.Net entity framework, an advanced data access technology that bridges the gap between the database schema and objects in your application. We will explore the new mapping capabilities that allow one to map unwieldy database tables to neat objects that make use of object oriented principles such as inheritance. Queries will be demonstrated against this new Entity Model using both Entity SQL and Linq to Entities. We will end off the tour by briefly touching on some of the more advanced features of the framework."

Please send me any questions you may have about the talk. Hope that you enjoyed it!

Entity Framework - A scenic tour – ScreenCast
Entity Framework - A scenic tour – Slides
Entity Framework - A scenic tour – Demo

Microsoft DevDays 2009 is just around the corner and should prove to be quite exciting. In preparation for my talk entitled "Entity Framework: A scenic tour" I recently did a dry run at the monthly SA Developer.net meeting and got some great feedback from the community on how to improve the presentation for DevDays. Thanks to all that came to listen and support me.

The blurb for the presentation goes as follows: "Join us on an introductory tour of the ADO.Net entity framework, an advanced data access technology that bridges the gap between the database schema and objects in your application. We will explore the new mapping capabilities that allow one to map unwieldy database tables to neat objects that make use of object oriented principles such as inheritance. Queries will be demonstrated against this new Entity Model using both Entity SQL and Linq to Entities. We will end off the tour by briefly touching on some of the more advanced features of the framework."

At the end of the talk I promised to get the slides up along with a screencast and code. I apologise for the delay in doing this but hardware issues with my graphics card meant a full format and a bit of a delay in getting this up. But none the less you can now download these below.

Note: This is the demo prior to the community feedback and I will make some adjustments before the DevDays event to the presentation.

Thanks again to all those who came to listen!

Entity Framework - A scenic tour – ScreenCast
Entity Framework - A scenic tour – Slides
Entity Framework - A scenic tour – Demo

This morning I gave a presentation for the Microsoft Devs4Devs event entitled “The Buzzword Puzzle: Web technology integration” where I demonstrated the integration of various technologies including the following:

• SQL 2008
• LINQ
• WCF
• AJAX
• jQuery
• Silverlight 2
• WPF

If you are interested in some more detail here are the slides and project files:
Sildes.zip (327.72 kb)
Project.zip (61.35 kb)

Some useful links include:
MS SQL: http://www.microsoft.com/SQL
jQuery: http://jquery.com/
AJAX: http://ajax.asp.net/
WCF vs ASMX: http://fuchangmiao.blogspot.com/2008/09/wcf-vs-asmx.html

If you were present for the talk I hope that you found it interesting. Send me a mail (via contact link) if you have any questions or comment.

Note:
To open this demo you will require the Silverlight 2 SDK and a copy of the Northwind Database.