Montreal .NET Community: Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts with Stephen Forte

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Stephen Forte will speak at the Montreal .NET Community this Tuesday May 19th 2009.

Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts
Struggling with Data Access? Who isn’t? Come and see some Data Access hacks and shortcuts that will make your life easier! In a high energy demo-only session, Stephen shows: how a mere mortal can pass a custom .Net collection to a stored procedure, improve your LINQ (to SQL, Entities, and 3rd party ORM) queries by eavesdropping on the server and understanding deferred execution, making complex data models easier to manage in the Entity Framework, creative Sliverlight databinding, and transforming your database back end to get enormous performance and productivity enhancements no matter what data access methodology you use. This is data access for the 21st century! Stephen will also provide guidance along the way about ORMs, LINQ to SQL, and the Entity Framework and will encourage Q&A.

Demos:
ADO.NET: Passing a Custom Collection to a Stored Proc
LINQ: Using SQL Server Profiler for eavesdropping on the conversation between your data access components and SQL Server
Entity Framework: Model Complex Relationships with Views
Astoria: Binding to Sliverlight
Database Architecture: Transform Data for Faster Performance

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. He sits on the board of several start-ups including Triton Works and is also a certified scrum master. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York.

Yeah, sounds good but the real question is: do you really want to spend an evening listening to this guy?

Seriously, Stephen is a killer presenter. Don’t miss his talk! More info here: http://www.dotnetmontreal.com/dnn