LINQ and Entity Framework

Costantino Pipero’s LINQ and the Entity Framework is a deep dive into real world scenarios of solutions development with the latest data access framework from the Microsoft .NET bag of tricks. Rather than being a whole-encompassing reference on the API, the book covers specific aspects, from the fundamentals of the language enhancements to advanced integration with more complex platforms like the ASP.NET MVC framework or the T4 code generator for Visual Studio 2008. The book provides all the steps needed to always bring the reader to the completion of a working solution that can be reused or extended to suite several practical needs. Those examples are not available in other LINQ books. The main goal is to introduce both the novice and the advanced reader to the power of this new semantics, while making sure to promote and enforce all the latest software development best practices. Topics covered in the book: LINQ Fundamentals; Extension Methods and Lambda Expressions; Anonymous Data Types and Partial Methods; Mapping Objects to Databases; Building Entity Associations and Joins; LINQ Datasource Control; Accessing and Changing Data in LINQ with the ASP.NET MVC framework; Caching and Serializing Data; Debugging; Using the Entity Framework; Creating an Entity Provider; Advanced Modeling and Code Generation with T4.