Teaching a 5-day Workshop (Entity Framework Boot Camp) Oct 3-7 in Boston

I’m excited about embarking on  my first full-week workshop. Until now, I have done a number of one-day workshops but I have always felt that I needed more time. There’s so much to share! Maybe five days will be enough?

The workshop will be in Boston (Waltham, to be exact) the first week of October. It is being coordinated by www.dataeducation.com.

Below is the course outline.

There is currently a $400 early bird discount until the end of August.

Details and registration at http://dataeducation.com/entity-framework-bootcamp/

Day 1: Introducing Code First

Why Code First?
How does Code First work at runtime?
Configuring Code First with Data Annotations and with the Fluent API
Configuring for validation, data attributes, relationships, database mappings and hierarchies

Understand impact on database
Understand impact on your application at runtime


Code First database initialization

Understand default and optional behavior and workarounds

Day 2: Introducing EF 4.1 DbContext /DbSet

How do DbContext and DbSet compare to ObjectContext/Object Set
Explore features of DbContext/DbSet that streamline EF coding
Integrate DbContext with your apps
Validation API
Fun with MVC 3 and EF 4.1

Days 3-5: Hard Core EF 4 (and 4.1)

Architecting maintainable and testable enterprise apps with EF4/4.1

Repositories, unit of work, testing


EF in distributed architectures: ASP.NET, WCF Services, WCF Data Services
EF in the Cloud: Windows Azure and SQL Azure
EF performance tips and tricks
Working with large models and multiple contexts
Explore EF core API additions and improvements introduced in the June 2011 CTP

Enum support, spatial, TPT improvements, designer improvements and more