One of the perks of being a registered member of S.A. Architect is that when the ATC team at Barone Budge and Dominick run a training session we keep a seat open for a community member. Coming up at the end of this month is my first full day session *gulp* which aims to cover LINQ. Being the shameless self promoting type, I thought I would do a little blurb on what you can expect if you, said S.A. Architect member, decide to join us.
Remember attendance for this one member is FREE! First you come to our excellent collab centre where you will have your own PC to work on for the day (sorry, can’t take it home with you) and I will be taking you through 28 HANDS ON labs during the day! Most are small labs (sub < 15min) so don’t worry about leaving late. Mindful that you are here for the full day, you get a free hot lunch (always cool) and I promise to personally guide you to the vending machines (snacks and coke) which will be free too! You will also take home a printed copy of the manual created for this session. I am waiting for the final proof to be developed but I suspect it will be about 200 pages in length in the end! Next I will be asking questions during the day (to see who is sleeping) and for prizes there the stress balls. I am hoping we will have a few t-shirts left after Rhodes to give away to people answering questions too. Lastly you get to meet some very smart people and do some networking!
Before it sounds like this is super special for my session, most of this (lunch, snacks, prizes, networking) is available at most of the full day sessions we run!
This is a session for someone who knows nothing of LINQ and we will start at the basics and go through to some level 300 stuff in the end. You do need to know basic C# (if you know what I mean by saying: add the using System.Data.Linq, you will be fine). The day will cover:
- The Problem which LINQ solves
- LINQ Architecture
- Implicitly Typed Variables
- Use LINQ to Objects to get and sort data and understand what is happening using the basic LINQ program.
- Anonymous Types
- LINQ Query Execution
- Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions
- LINQ Query Operators
- LINQ to XML
- LINQ to SQL
So if you are interested, first register at S.A Architect. Then let Willy know you wish to attend! Dates/times etc… can be found here!