Description:

Developers discover a lot of behavior in the ADO.NET Entity Framework that is quite unexpected. Programming Entity Framework author, Julie Lerman, will help you avoid some surprises and show you tricks to make the most of Entity Framework. Learn how to provide default navigation property (foreign key) values, practical uses for Entity SQL, how to improve the performance of your LINQ and Entity SQL queries, combine Entities with .NET Generics to write reusable code and more.

About Julia Lerman

Julia Lerman is the leading independent authority on the Entity Framework and has been using and teaching the technology since its inception two years ago. She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world, including DevConnections and TechEd and she writes articles for many well-known technical publications.

Julia lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, was a founding board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and is a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. You can read her blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog.