Back 2 Basics sessions are new for Visug. In these sessions, we address a topic common to most of us. A topic we encounter in daily development routines. A topic that we however don't master entirely.

A language focussed overview of the foundations of LINQ in C#3.0 (50 minutes) 
In this session the language enhancements in C#3.0 on which LINQ is based are discussed. You'll learn the syntax and the implementation of Auto Implemented Properties, Local Type Inference, Object and Collection Initializers, Anonymous Types, Extension Methods and Lambda Expressions and see how LINQ is made possible by using combinations of these new extensions in the language.

LINQ to SQL compared to LINQ to Entities. (50 minutes)
Both are Object-Relational Mapping frameworks in .NET 3.5 but have different goals, qualities, behaviors and their own programmatic approaches towards modeling and defining the metadata. How do they compare to eachother ? Which one fits best in which scenarios ? In this session you will be guided in making the correct choice between them for your development environment.

Note that this session is in the afternoon.

About the speaker
Kurt Claeys is a .NET development geek with more than 15 year professional experience in Microsoft technologies. He works as .NET solution architect (MCSD) and trainer (MCT) for Ordina Belgium and has the role as competence leader. In 2008 he become MVP (Connected System Developer) and won the Speaker Idol contest at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona. WCF/WF/BizTalk and Entity Framework are his primary focus areas. Blogging on www.devitect.net