Dane Morgridge and John Baird at New York City Code Camp 2011

If you’re at New York City Code Camp today, see Team ComponentOne’s sessions. Speaker Bureau members Dane Morgridge and John Baird are presenting three talks, and rumor has it Dane has a bag of ComponentOne swag with him. Have a great day at NYC Code Camp!

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 (Dane Morgridge)

With .Net 3.5 Microsoft release LINQ to SQL and with .NET 3.5 SP1 came the Entity Framework, both powerful ORM tools leveraging Linq technology. Entity Framework v1, while usable, was definitely lacking some important features and the Entity Framework team delivered with version 4 coming with Visual Studio 2010. In this session we will look at Entity Framework 4 from the ground level and you will get a solid understanding of it basic principles. We will also go through all of the new features in Entity Framework 4 and see how far it’s come since the initial release. If you’ve never taken a look at Entity Framework, now is the time as version 4 is the real deal.

ASP.NET MVC: A Gateway to Rails? (Dane Morgridge)

There seem to be a lot of .NET developers taking a solid look at Ruby on Rails recently (and some are jumping ship on .NET) and I have to wonder if the reason is ASP.NET MVC. There are a lot of similarities between the two and in this session I will give an intro to Ruby on Rails from a ASP.NET MVC developers prospective and how they are similar. I took my first look at Rails several years ago, but it was after working with ASP.NET MVC, that I really "discovered" what Rails had to offer. I will share my learning process from ASP.NET MVC to Rails and how working with Rails has helped me be a better overall developer.

Introduction to Silverlight (John Baird)

This introductory session will get you started with the wonderful world of Silverlight. We will look at container controls, layout, UI controls, navigation, data binding and styling and how to put it all together to create your Silverlight application.