Entity Framework Tutorial by Joydip Kandilal – Chapter 7 – 8 – Book Review

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