Our May meeting will be held on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 6pm at Justin Brands.
Daniel Egan will be presenting: LINQ to the Enterprise
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Thank you to INETA for sponsoring our speaker this month!
LINQ to the Enterprise
To the untrained eye, LINQ may seem like a brand new technology but it has actually been over 7 years in the making. In this session we will uncover where LINQ came from and why you need to pay attention to it. (Anders Hejlsberg is the project sponsor) We will discuss what an ORM (Object Relational Mapper ) is and why you want to use one. We will explore the language enhancements that make LINQ possible and then dive into the fundamentals of the LINQ pipeline and language. We will wrap up the session by discussing how you should integrate Linq into your ASP.Net Application ( ie. not in your code behind pages).
Speaker Bio
Daniel N. Egan
President INETA – North America
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP ASP/ASP.Net , MCSD, MCT
Over the past twelve years, Daniel has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At Odyssey Consulting Group, a Microsoft Partner, he serves as President and CEO.
Daniel is very involved in the Developer Community. He is the current President of INETA –North America (The International .Net Association) which helps to support more than 250 .Net user groups in North America. Prior to his current term as President, he served on the INETA board of Directors as the VP of Technology. In addition to volunteering on a national level, he has founded and served as a leader in two .Net User Groups in the Southern California area (SoCalDotNet and LACSharp) as well as being on the board of directors of two other. As an active member of the community, he helps run two Code Camps in the Southern California area bringing free .Net training to over 2000 developers each year.
Daniel has been awarded a Microsoft MVP in ASP/ASP.Net and has also been honored as a Microsoft Regional Director. He currently holds an MCSD, and MCT and is a member of the .Net Insiders for the Southern California Region.
In addition to the Board of Directors for INETA, Daniel also serves on the .Net Advisory Boards of both California State University Fullerton (CSUF) and the University of California San Diego(UCSD). He has taught a .Net Certification course at CSUF for 7 years and enjoys teaching new developers all about .Net technologies.
Daniel is a frequent speaker and conference presenter at conferences like MIX and SDWest and travels the country speaking at user groups as a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has written several articles in addition to being the author of Building Websites With VB.Net and DotNetNuke 3.0. and a new upcoming title from Wrox on ASP.Net Design Patterns.
To find out more about Daniel, visit his blog, Dot Net Doc (http://www.dotnetdoc.com/), a .NET developer resource website
Daniel can be reached at degan@ocgpros.com
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