Introduction

Before taking any exam, we usually start to prepare for that exam. Using official learning material like Microsoft learning products, reading blogs and articles or using exam preparation tool. And maybe all of that. The easiest way is to go through an exam preparation and simulation tool.

But that about a tool that gives you a preparation guide to help you learn, practice and track your results. This is pretty much what uCertify exam preparation products would give you.

And here I’m going to give you an overview and a review about uCertify M70-668: Pro Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

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About the book

Title: Programming Entity Framework 2^nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
URL: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252
Book website: http://learnentityframework.com/
ISBN: 978-0-596-80726-9
Chapters: 27 + 3 Appendices | ~900 pages
Author: Julia Lerman
Author’s blog: http://thedatafarm.com/blog/
Overall rating: 9.70 out of 10
This is the second edition of the book totally revised for Entity Framework 4.0 on VS2010 1^st edition was released Jan 2009. this 2^nd new edition released August 2010.

Personal Opinion

I can’t do anything but strongly recommend this book. It is almost everything you might need about Entity Framework 4.0. Great walkthroughs and samples in C#. However there are few snippet in VB.Net that shows different syntax of doing things between C# & VB.Net.

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I had a chance this week to do a simple basic presentation about algorithms to undergraduate students of Computer Engineering in Alazhar University in Cairo.

I enjoyed the time of the session. Both both an girls were amazing an interactive. I hope that I delivered this introduction about Algorithms properly to them.

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About Part 5

Fifth part is about 9:45 min in length. Part 5. Covers EDM -Entity Data Model- showing its elements (SSDL, CSDL & MSL). Also this screencast shows how to query your conceptual model using LINQ to Entities.

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About Part 4

Fourth part is about 10 min in length. Covers how to implement table per hierarchy inheritance model (TPH) with Entity Framework 4.0

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About Part 3

Third part is about 8:20 min in length. Covers how to use stored procedures with EF4 to do CRUD operations on the database. The demo shows how to do mapping to existing stored procedures. The Demo also shows how to use IntilleTrace to view executed statements made by EF object services.

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About Part 2

Second part is about 6:30 min in length. Covers Object Services and how to do CRUD operations using EF 4.0 object services. The demo explores EF change tracking capabilities. The demo also shows how to map return result of a stored procedure to existing entity in your EDM.

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Introduction

I finally decided not to wait till I finish the whole recording which it seems is going to take some good time. And so I started to split this recording session/screencast into multiple parts and post them.

About Part 1

First part is about 10 min in length. And is an introduction to Entity Framework 4.0 with brief about its short history. This part also include a demo about new vs2010 designer enhancements for EF4. Also the screencast shows how to do a refactor to complex type using EDM designer.

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Last week I introduced a new screencast on another OData Developer tool. It was about how to use LinqPad to query OData service with C#, LINQ & WCF Data Services Client APIs.

The screencast shows how to use LinqPad to connect to and query OData Services using LINQ and WCF Data Services Client APIs. Showing how LinqPad can be useful as a developer tool to test queries against any OData Service.

I case you missed it, you can watch it on ODataPrimer website. You can also download an HD video (~48Mbs). The package contains 2 videos. One of them is the one hosted and it’s a 10 min video. And the other is ~14 min. I had to trim it to fit into youtube. The 14 min video contains additional stuff in case you are interested.

You can also subscribe to ODataPrimer channel on yourtube for future updates and videos.

Hope you’ll enjoy it.

Last week I introduced a screencast talking about OData Visualizer Extension for VS2010 on http://odataprimer.com community.

It’s a How-To video on how to download, install and start working with OData Visualizer Extension for Visual Studio.Net 2010. OData Visualizer is an extension for VS2010 made by Microsoft Data Modeling team

I case you missed it, you can watch it on ODataPrimer website. You can also download an HD video (~35Mbs).

You can also subscribe to ODataPrimer channel on yourtube for future updates and videos.

Hope you’ll enjoy it.