Hour 24. Next Steps: Silverlight, PowerShell, and Entity Framework

The .NET Framework continues to evolve and more technologies are being written or revised to make use of the capabilities it provides. These innovations include Microsoft Silverlight, PowerShell, and the Entity Framework, to name just a few. In this hour, you learn about some of these technologies and how they might be used in your own applications.

Understanding the Entity Framework

Earlier you learned about ADO.NET and how LINQ to SQL can be used to develop applications that interact with databases. The Entity Framework extends the basic capabilities of ADO.NET to ...

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