When: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, MD, 21046

Topic: A Look Inside Entity Framework 4.0

A new version of Entity Framework will be available with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 in April. During this presentation we will look at a number of the new features in this release with the primary focus being on T4 template based code generation. These features include:

• Better N-Tier Support with Self-Tracking Entities
• Persistence Ignorance
• Lazy Loading
• POCO Change-Tracking
• T4 Template Based Code Generation
• Model-First & Code Only Development

Presenter: Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown is the Chief Software Architect and founder of Customer of Velocity, a software company providing sales force automation for the residential home building industry. He also consults as a Microsoft "Subject Matter Expert" for Apex Systems, one of the top 10 placement firms in the US. Brandon has 15 years of experience as a software architect and systems designer and travels the country teaching Microsoft technologies to Apex employees and consultants.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.