In my earlier post, We had seen the Review of Chapters 4,5,6 in the book “Entity Framework Tutorial” written by Joydip Kanjilal. In this post, let us see what Chapter 7 and 8 speak about.
Book : Entity Framework
Author: Joydip Kandilal
Publisher: PACKT publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/)
Chapter 7: Working with the Object Services Layer
Pages: 151-182
The seventh Chapter describes about Object Services. In particular it exlpains,
- What are Object services
- Features of Object Services
- ObjectContext Class
- Querying Data as in-memory objects
- Adding, Modifying and Deletnig objects
- Attaching and Detaching Objects to and from ObjectContext
- Serializing and Deserializing Entity Instances
- Change tracking and Identity Resolution using Object Context
- Sample Application using Object Services
- Inheritance in Entity Framework
- Implementing Complex Types in EDM
Chapter 8: Introducing ADO.NET Data Services
Pages: 183-206
The eigth Chapter describes about Data Services. In particular it explains,
- Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services
- Differences between Web Services and ADO.NET Data Services
- Representational State Transfer
- Need for ADO.NET Data Servics
- Exposing Data as Service
- Using Relational Data as Data Source
- Using Other Sources with Data Service
- System.Services.Data namespace
- Restricting Access to Resources
- Working with Data Service Client Library
- Generating Client Side Entity Classes
- Inserting, Updating and Deleting Record
- Consuming ADO.NET Data Service using LINQ
- Handling Exceptions in ADO.NET Data Service
- Batch processing Service Requests
- Debugging Data Service