Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Training Kit

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This training kit is designed to help you learn how to utilize visual studio 2010 and framework technologies. it includes presentations, hands-on labs and demos of the following framework technologies

  • C# 4
  • ASP.Net 4
  • Windows 7
  • Entity Framework
  • ADO.Net Data Services
  • Managed Extensibility Framework
  • Windows Communication Foundation
  • Windows Workflow
  • Windows Presentation Foundation

This kit works with Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 only. It’ll walk you step by step through loads of content and is a great starter if you’re getting into what’s new in .NET 4.

You can download kit from here Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Training kit

ADO.Net Data Services

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ASP.Net 3.5 SP1 includes a new concept ADO.Net Data service. Commonly you can ask why we need one more service concept if we have WCF, ASMX services already?. Simply I could write a ASMX or WCF service to  provide API interface for my data. Yes its possible, the problem here is we have to write the code for everything(sorting, filtering, joins, CRUD operations etc) from scratch. Also for supporting different formats(JSON, ATOM, XML etc). Additional code required if we wish to expose it as a RESTful service. ADO.Net data services designed specially for these purpose. In a one go, we can a have service that performs CRUD operations, sorting, filtering etc and provides a RESTful interface supporting ATOM feeds and JSON formats without writing too much code and which well works with Entity Framework. Read more

LinQ to SQL or Entity Framework ?

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A common question arises when working with .Net 3.5 data models.

A nice article explaining differences between LinQ to SQL and Entity Framework is at party libraries are available for supporting other databases(like LinQtoOracle etc..).

b) Entity Framework is an ORM DB and is based on application-oriented data model. Its a loosely coupled and may differs from existing DB schema. It represents many:many relations(flexible mapping) and provides different layers to your DB.  Entity Framework works with both SQL Server and 3rd party Databases(.edmx files). If your thinking for a common layer for all the databases, loosely coupled(independent of DB Schema), Entity Framework is the best option.