Developing Data Access Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio

Course details

Overview

Experienced developers who know the basics of data access (CRUD) in Windows client and Web application environments will learn to optimize their designs and develop better performing data access code by using the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and ADO.NET.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for professional .NET software developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio in a team-based, medium-sized to large development environment. They will have experience implementing data access and data binding within their Web and/or Windows client applications and are interested in learning to optimize data access code in their applications by using the Entity Framework, LINQ, and ADO.NET. Members of the audience are experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or newer releases of the Visual Studio product. The audience has some experience using Visual Studio 2010 for either Windows client or Web application development. Typically, this audience has the following knowledge/experience: Experience developing n-tier applications that access various data sources Experience implementing data binding within their applications Some experience using LINQ and ADO.NET A conceptual understanding of the Entity Framework

Outline

• Lesson 1: Architecture and Data Access Technologies
• Lesson 2: Building Entity Data Models
• Lesson 3: Querying Entity Data
• Lesson 4: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Entity Data
• Lesson 5: Handling Multi-User Scenarios by Using Object Services
• Lesson 6: Building Optimized Solutions by Using Object Services
• Lesson 7: Customizing Entities and Building Custom Entity Classes
• Lesson 8: Using POCO Classes with the Entity Framework
• Lesson 9: Building an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity Framework
• Lesson 10: Handling Updates in an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity Framework
• Lesson 11: Building Occasionally Connected Solutions
• Lesson 12: Querying Data by Using WCF Data Services
• Lesson 13: Updating Data by Using WCF Data Services
• Lesson 14: Using ADO.NET
• Lesson 15: Using LINQ to SQL