Bloomington .NET User Group Presents LINQ

November 2007 Meeting

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Microsoft Corporation
2203 E. Empire Street
Suite J
Bloomington Illinois 61704

The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework (LINQ)

Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: relational tables, XML documents, in-memory objects, and so-on. Each data domain can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today’s applications is the result of these mismatches. In this talk, Pete will explain how Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 aim to unify the programming models through LINQ capabilities in C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework.

This discussion will mostly focus on the language features that support the LINQ framework and demonstrate the use of LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL, and LINQ to XML.

Presenter: Pete Maroun, Application Development Consultant, Microsoft

Microsoft has provided us with a copy of Office 2007 Ultimate and a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse combo to give away.

Dinner will be provided, so bring your appetite and your business cards, for networking.

Please sign-up if you are planning on attending so we can plan for the group size!

The Bloomington, IL .Net Users Group (BDNUG) brings together Microsoft .NET developers to learn and network.