Did you miss the opportunity to attend the MSDN Roadshow 2008? If so we are doing a Roadshow rerun giving you a second chance to attend this event. Come along if you want to find out about the latest developer tools and technologies from Microsoft. The MSDN team will focus on what’s coming up next this year for .NET developers beyond Visual Studio 2008. We will also look at Silverlight, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and other future bits which involve more code and less PowerPoint. Please be aware that the content for this rerun is exactly that covered in the other MSDN Roadshow 2008 events – so this event is aimed at Developers who could not make those earlier events. For more details and the original slide deck see http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/new/Detail.aspx?id=351

3. Eric Nelson Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd [email_address] http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel http://twitter.com/ericnel

15. LINQ To Entities Object Services Entity SQL Entity Client ADO.NET Provider

17. Vendor DB Support Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Sample, Generic Sample Devart Oracle, MySQL, Postgress Phoenix SQLite Sybase SQLAnywhere Npgsql PostgreSQL IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server MySQL AB MySQL OpenLink Many via OpenLink ODBC or JDBC DataDirect Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2 Firebird Firebird

18. LINQ to SQL LINQ to Entities Database Support SQL Server Many Object Relational Mapping Capabilities Simple Complex Requires Attributed .NET Code No Yes Status Released Just Released 

22. Data Access Layer Entity Framework Relational database Other sources Data Services Runtime Hosting/HTTP Listener Custom IQueryable/IEnumerable [+ IUpdatable] HTTP

23. Resources Res 1 Res 2 Res 3 Res 4 HTTP Request URL VERB Payload HTTP Response Status GET POST PUT DELETE XML JSON Payload XML JSON

31. Entity Data Model SSDL SQL Oracle Other SSDL HTTP Entity Client CSDL MSL Object Services ESQL “ select o from orders” LINQ to Entities “ from o in orders...” ADO.NET Data services Provider Provider Provider SSDL Custom Interceptors (Query, Update) Service Operations (Methods) Entity Data Model