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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chris Bowen's Blog : Entity Framework</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Entity+Framework/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Entity Framework</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Fall Northeast Roadshow Summary and Resources</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2008/10/19/fall-northeast-roadshow-summary-and-resources.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:10:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9006062</guid><dc:creator>cbowen</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/9006062.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9006062</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9006062</wfw:comment><description>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/Roadshow-September-2008_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Roadshow-September-2008" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/Roadshow-September-2008_thumb.png" width="417" height="90" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Thank You!&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0034_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Rochester Library by Night" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0034_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another Northeast Roadshow is done!&amp;#160; Thanks to all of you who joined us as we visited six venues across the Northeast - we had our largest total audience ever.&amp;#160; Your interest and support makes this possible, and keeps us heading back out for more.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Speaking of which, &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil"&gt;Jim&lt;/a&gt; and I are busy planning the &lt;strong&gt;Winter Northeast Roadshow&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;#160; It's shaping up to be in early- to mid-December, so keep an eye on our blogs for announcements and registration (sometime in November.)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0034_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0034_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0013_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0022_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Swinging by the Magic Hat Brewery" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0022_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thanks to the gracious support of our hosts throughout the Northeast, especially &lt;a href="http://www.knowledgewave.com/"&gt;KnowledgeWave&lt;/a&gt; in Vermont, &lt;a href="http://rpi.edu/"&gt;RPI&lt;/a&gt; and the Rochester Public Library in New York, and the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Maine!&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A special thanks to &lt;a href="http://brianjo.spaces.live.com/"&gt;Brian Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, who was able to join us for our visits to Albany and Rochester to give great presentations on Robotics.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0013_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Presentations and Other Content&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0018_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="A Packed House in Burlington, VT" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0018_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As promised, we've gathered our presentations, resources, and demos together for you, should you wish to take a closer look.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Here are the links to my presentations, stored on (Live's &lt;a href="http://skydrive.live.com/"&gt;SkyDrive&lt;/a&gt; service):&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Entity%20Framework.pptx"&gt;&amp;quot;Understanding ADO.NET Entity Framework&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Code/EntityFramework.zip"&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Exploring%20IE8.pptx"&gt;&amp;quot;Exploring Internet Explorer 8&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Robotics.pptx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;RoboLunch - Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Code/Robotics.zip"&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Unit%20Testing.pptx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Befriending Unit Testing&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/em&gt;[&lt;a href="http://cid-0762fe6ebe343b73.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Roadshow%20-%20Fall%202008/Code/UnitTesting.zip"&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0012_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Jim Fueling Up on Starbucks" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0012_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil/archive/2008/10/17/northeast-roadshow-recap.aspx"&gt;Jim's recap post&lt;/a&gt; for the resources from the following sessions:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;ASP.NET Dynamic Data&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;UI, UX, U Confused?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;A RESTed Development&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Session Resources&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, here are the resources from each of my sessions:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="The Roadhow Rocks Waltham" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;Understanding ADO.NET Entity Framework&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.com/data"&gt;Data Platform Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples"&gt;EF Query Samples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFMappingHelper"&gt;EF Mapping Helper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.learnentityframework.com"&gt;Julie Lerman&amp;#8217;s Book Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign"&gt;Entity Framework Design Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Blogs:&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons"&gt;Danny Simmons&amp;#8217; Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Roger Jennings&amp;#8217; Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet"&gt;ADO.NET Team Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/readiness/developers.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Somewhere in Somewhereville" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0024_thumb.jpg" width="154" height="116" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;Exploring Internet Explorer 8&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie8"&gt;Internet Explorer 8 Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/readiness/developers.aspx"&gt;IE8 Developer Readiness Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;IE 6, 7, 8 Virtual PC Instances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sessions.visitmix.com"&gt;MIX '08 Sessions&lt;/a&gt; (several on IE8)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/FallNortheastRoadshowSummaryandResources_379/PIC-0063_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;RoboLunch&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoft.com/robotics"&gt;Microsoft Robotics Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;quot;Befriending Unit Testing&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182515(VS.80).aspx"&gt;MSDN: Working with Unit Tests&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/TestableSoftwareDesigns"&gt;&amp;#8220;Achieving And Recognizing Testable Software Designs&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt; - Roy Osherove&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337885.aspx"&gt;&amp;#8220;Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt; - James Kovacs&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html"&gt;&amp;#8220;IoC Containers and the Dep. Injection Pattern&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt; - Martin Fowler&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Blogs:&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agileprogrammer.com/oneagilecoder"&gt;Brian Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.exampler.com/"&gt;Brian Marick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://peterprovost.org/blog/"&gt;Peter Provost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bradwilson.typepad.com/"&gt;Brad Wilson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We'll see you next time!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;-Chris&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9006062" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/New+England/default.aspx">New England</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Events/default.aspx">Events</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Internet+Explorer/default.aspx">Internet Explorer</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/New+York/default.aspx">New York</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Roadshow/default.aspx">Roadshow</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Robotics/default.aspx">Robotics</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Entity+Framework/default.aspx">Entity Framework</category></item></channel></rss>