Monday, December 08, 2008

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-561): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Application Development

I just send the last revision of my chapters for TK 70-561 to the editor. Yeah! Hopefully the book will go to print soon. You can pre-order already on Amazon!

For me the last chapter to work on was LINQ to SQL, but the book includes chapters on learning ADO.NET, Typed DataSets, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. You'll need to know it all. :-)

Stephen Forte has an interesting post on the relevance of LINQ to SQL.

General | LINQ

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Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:10:39 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hi Mark,

Good work! So I assume this means you'd like to teach DevelopMentor's Essential LINQ course? :-)

Now that I've had the chance to work more with version 1 of the Entity Framework, I've come to appreciate L2S even more and believe it will be around for a while longer.

Tony

Tony Sneed

Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:40:10 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hi Tony,

Yep. I love LINQ within the language. I kind of view L2S as a great follow up to Typed DataSets.
I haven't done much with EF since there are too many features that have been pushed back to v2 (or v3?).

Cheers,
Mark

Mark Blomsma

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