Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook: A Must Have Guide for Any .NET Developer Using Entity Framework

Hands-on solutions with reusable code examples and step-by-step recipes that will guide the reader to success.

Packt is pleased to announce the release of Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook, a new book and e-book that guides users through critical technical decisions to avoid technical landmines. Written by Devlin Liles and Tim Rayburn, this cookbook would not only guide .Net Developers on using Entity Framework but also enhance the data access wizard.

Entity Framework is a component of the .NET Framework and a set of technologies in ADO.NET. The developers can work with data in the form of domain-specific objects and properties at a higher level of abstraction, create and maintain data-oriented applications with less code.

Entity Framework 4.1 Expert Cookbook provides users with examples that will lead through vital features such as reusability, integration with other technologies, architectural management, complex mapping scenarios and query definition. Furthermore, this book provides concrete code examples as well as detailed information on the decisions involved.

Some of the chapters emphasized in the book are;

1. Chapter 1: Improving Entity Framework in the real world
2. Chapter 2: Understanding the fluent configuration API
3. Chapter 3: Handling Validation in Entity Framework
4. Chapter 4: Working with transactions and stored procedures
5. Chapter 5: Improving entity framework with Query Libraries
6. Chapter 6: Improving complex query scenarios
7. Chapter 7: Using concurrent and parallel processing
8. Chapter 8: Improving entity framework with complex business scenarios

Packt Publishing has also released and is due to publish other Entity titles:

1. Entity Framework Tutorial (published)
2. Google Web Toolkit 2 Application Development Cookbook(published)
3. MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF (published)

All Entity are Published by Packt Enterprise. Packt Enterprise is a publishing division of Packt Publishing designed to serve the information needs of IT Professionals in the Enterprise space. Packt Enterprise also publishes on Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Citrix, Java, Amazon, Google and SAP technologies.

Entity Framework 4.1 Expert Cookbook- Entity Framework 4.1 allows us to dive into the world of data access without having to write SQL statements. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/Entity Framework 4.1 Expert Cookbook /book