ADO.NET Entity Framework.
What’s the ADO.NET Entity Framework, concepts and architecture, supported ORM mapping patterns, using LINQ and E-SQL to query the model, change tracking by the context. This session mainly shows you what the next version of Entity Framework will bring us in .NET 4.0/VS2010. How EF4 deals with persistence ignorance by supporting POCO's, how a model first approach in ORM is possible, how to generate DDL SQL scripts to create the persistence structure, how the new deferred loading option works, how the generation of entity classes can be customized by T4 templates, how to use self tracking entities in a multi tier architecture and how to work with a code only approach.
 

NHibernate:

General philosophy of NHibernate, strong and weak points, transitive persistence, querying, future queries / batching, data modification with HQL, first & second level cache, extensibility points

Speakers:

CLAEYS Kurt : MVP Connected System Developer, .NET Architect and trainer at ORDINA. www.devitect.net

Davy Brion, software developer at Item Solutions