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	User Group News * Please distribute this notice throughout your development community!
	We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site.
December 16	Visual Studio 2010 + Entity Framework
Wednesday Malvern, PA	Our monthly meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Wednesday, December 16 from 5:30-8:30. Refreshments are provided courtesy of philly.NET. Please register on our web site. Detailed directions are on the Microsoft Greater PA web site.
5:30	Steve Andrews, TFS MVP What's New in Visual Studio 2010
	Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) is Microsoft's flagship Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform with tools for everyone in the team: developers, architects, project managers, and testers. In this session, we'll look at the new features and enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 including enhanced refactoring, the new architecture and modeling tools, testing tools including historical debugging and test impact analysis, and much more. Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Steve is also a MCTS, ICSOO, and community fanatic.
6:45 Break	Meet your peers. Refreshments and drinks courtesy of philly.NET.
7:00 Q&A	Bill Wolff, philly.net leader, ask questions, get answers from your peers!
7:15	Dane Morgridge, Roska Direct Getting to know the Entity Framework
	There are quite a few choices when it comes to how to do data access for your .NET application. With .NET 3.5, Microsoft introduced LINQ to SQL which is a powerful ORM solution leveraging LINQ technology. The Entity Framework was released with .NET 3.5 SP1 and took the concepts of LINQ to SQL to a new level. The Entity Framework brought additional features over LINQ to SQL as well as laying a new foundation for the future of data access in .NET. In this session we will look at a brief history of ORM and then go through a walkthrough of the Entity Framework and flesh out the data access layer of a simple application. We will look at similarities of LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework as well as some common “gotchas” associated with EF. We will also take a lap through the new exciting features coming in Entity Framework 4. Dane Morgridge has been a developer for 9+ years and has worked with .NET & C# since the first public beta. His current passions are Entity Framework, WPF, WCF, Silverlight and LINQ. He works mostly with C#, but is also a big fan of whatever new technology he happens to come across. In addition to software development also enjoys dabbling in graphic design, video special effects and hockey. When not with his family he is usually learning some new technology or working on some side projects. He is currently working as the Senior Interactive Developer at Roska Direct in Montgomeryville, PA. He can be reached through is blog http://geekswithblogs.net/danemorgridge or on Twitter @danemorgridge.
8:30 Closing & Raffle!	Books, software, and other goodies!

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