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Prerequisites:
CSP412 or equivalent experience
This course will provide developers with a solid introduction to the primary strategies to access data stored in relational databases from .NET applications, ADO.NET, LINQ, and the Entity Framework. It starts with an in-depth coverage of ADO.NET including the connected/disconnected classes, how to bind data to ASP.NET data-bindable controls, then moves onto LINQ - an exciting addition to .NET 3.5. LINQ extends the .NET languages to make data access a part of the language itself (as opposed to and API such as ADO.NET). It is an abstraction layer that allows one to access data from disparate data sources (relational databases, XML, objects in memory) through the same syntax and semantics.