Murach's ADO.NET 3.5 LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 (Murach: Training & Reference) - Softcover

Boehm, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774537 ISBN 13: 9781890774530

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc., 2009

Synopsis

This book shows C# developers how to use C# 2008 and ADO.NET 3.5 to develop database applications the way the best professionals do.

After an introductory section, section 2 shows how to use data sources and datasets for Rapid Application Development and prototyping of Windows Forms applications. Section 3 shows how to build professional 3-layer applications that consist of presentation, business, and database classes. Section 4 shows how to use the new LINQ feature to work with data structures like datasets, SQL Server databases, and XML documents. And section 5 shows how to build database applications by using the new Entity Framework to map business objects to database objects.

To ensure mastery, this book presents 23 complete database applications that demonstrate best programming practices. And it's all done in the distinctive Murach style that has been training professional developers for 35 years.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Boehm has over 30 years of experience as an enterprise programmer. She got started with Visual Basic in the days of VB5, and has been programming on .NET since its inception. In the past 5 years, she's added C# to her programming repertoire, and she's authored or co-authored books on Visual Basic, C#, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.

Ged Mead wrote his first computer program in 1983 and he hasn't stopped since. After training as a systems analyst in the military, he has spent time training others how to develop and use computer applications in the military and the police service. He has written many technical articles for developers and is a prolific blogger, specializing in explaining how to defeat those, often undocumented, gotchas that can so easily trip up and frustrate the unwary.

He has written several online e-learning courses for developers and has been awarded the prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award by Microsoft.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1890774537
• ISBN 13: 9781890774530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 699