MS10265A: Developing Data Access Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
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MS10265A: Developing Data Access Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Duration
5 days
Course Overview
In this course, experienced developers who know the basics of data access (CRUD) in Windows client and Web application environments will learn to optimize their designs and develop better performing data access code by using the ADO.NET Entity Framework, LINQ, WCF Data Services, the Sync Framework, and ADO.NET.
Target Audience
This course is intended for professional .NET software developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio in a team-based, medium-sized to large development environment. They will have experience implementing data access and data binding within their Web and/or Windo…
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MS10265A: Developing Data Access Solutions with Microsoft Visual
Studio 2010
Duration
5 days
Course Overview
In this course, experienced developers who know the basics of data
access (CRUD) in Windows client and Web application environments
will learn to optimize their designs and develop better performing
data access code by using the ADO.NET Entity Framework, LINQ, WCF
Data Services, the Sync Framework, and ADO.NET.
Target Audience
This course is intended for professional .NET software developers
who use Microsoft Visual Studio in a team-based, medium-sized to
large development environment. They will have experience
implementing data access and data binding within their Web and/or
Windows client applications and are interested in learning to
optimize data access code in their applications by using the Entity
Framework, LINQ, and ADO.NET. Members of the audience are
experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or newer
releases of the Visual Studio product. The audience has some
experience using Visual Studio 2010 for either Windows client or
Web application development.
Typically, this audience has the following
knowledge/experience:
• Experience developing n-tier applications that access various
data sources
• Experience implementing data binding within their
applications
• Some experience using LINQ and ADO.NET
• A conceptual understanding of the Entity Framework
Course Overview
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will have the
necessary skills to:
• Evaluate a variety of business cases, and then select an
appropriate combination of data access technologies and tools most
appropriate to each case. Describe the roles of Entity Framework,
WCF Data Services, and ADO.NET for building and maintaining
applications. Use LINQ on top of these technologies to improve
productivity and the quality of their applications.
• Use the tools provided with the Entity Framework to map the
conceptual model used by the business logic of an application to
the logical data model provided by a database.
• Query an Entity Data Model (EDM) by using common methods such as
LINQ to Entities, Entity SQL, and the classes in the EntityClient
namespace.
• Perform data modification tasks on data in an EDM.
• Explain the function of the Object Services model implemented by
the Entity Framework and the support provided by the Object
Services API for addressing the issues faced by enterprise
applications that have to handle multiple concurrent users
simultaneously accessing the same data .
• Describe best practices for designing and building a scalable,
optimized data access layer by using Object Services.
• Customize and extend entities with their own business logic and
use advanced mappings to shape the data model to their business and
application requirements.
• Reuse existing business classes in a data access layer built by
using the Entity Framework.
• Address the architectural issues that can arise when building an
n-tier enterprise application by using the Entity Framework.
• Build extensible solutions that can update data in an n-tier
enterprise application by using the Entity Framework.
• Access offline data or data that that has limited availability in
client applications.
• Design, develop, and consume a simple WCF Data Service.
• Use WCF Data Services to update and delete data and to handle
multi-user concerns.
• Develop high performance, scalable ADO.NET applications that can
query and update data.
• Explain how LINQ to SQL enables development against a logical
model which abstracts the low-level details of querying ADO.NET
tables and result sets
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
• An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to
software development, including the principles of software
development:
• A basic understanding of the scripting techniques and some
hands-on experience writing scripts:
• A general understanding of the purpose, function, and features of
following .NET Framework topics:
• Experience using Visual Studio 2008 in the following task
areas:
• Experience in object oriented design and development as
follows:
• Experience in N-Tier application design and development as
follows:
• Data access experience in Windows client application development
as follows:
• Data access experience in Web application development as
follows:
Course Outline
Module 1: Architecture and Data Access Technologies
This module describes the commonly used data access technologies
and scenarios in which you are likely to use them.
Lessons
• Data Access Technologies
• Data Access Scenarios
Lab: Analyzing Data Access Scenarios
• Identifying Data Access Technologies
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the key data access technologies available to .NET
Framework developers.
• Assign appropriate data access technologies to common data access
scenarios.
Module 2: Building Entity Data Models
This module introduces the concepts of data modeling, and in
particular, Entity Data Models (EDMs). It explains how you can use
EDMs to decouple the conceptual data structure in your applications
from the logical data structure in the data store.
Lessons
• Introduction to Entity Data Models
• Modifying the Entity Data Model
• Customizing the Entity Data Model
Lab: Using Entity Data Models
• Generating an EDM from the AdventureWorks Database
• Adding Entities and Associations
• Using the Generate Database Wizard
• Mapping Entities to Multiple Tables
• Implementing an Inheritance Hierarchy
• Using Stored Procedures
• Creating a Complex Type
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe and create an Entity Data Model.
• Modify an Entity Data Model by using the Entity Designer.
• Customize a model to meet their business requirements.
Module 3: Querying Entity Data
This module explains how to query an entity data model by using
common methods such as LINQ to Entities, Entity SQL, and the
classes in the EntityClient namespace.
Lessons
• Retrieving Data by Using LINQ to Entities
• Retrieving Data by Using Entity SQL
• Retrieving Data by Using EntityClient Provider
• Retrieving Data by Using Stored Procedures
• Unit Testing Your Data Access Code
Lab: Querying Entity Data
• Retrieving All Contact Entities
• Retrieving Contact Entities by Using a Filter
• Retrieving RewardsClaimed Entities
• Querying the Rewards Family of Entities
• Executing a Stored Procedure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Retrieve data by using LINQ to Entities.
• Retrieve data by using the Entity SQL language.
• Retrieve data by using the EntityClient Provider.
• Retrieve data by using stored procedures in the entity model.
• Create unit tests for their data access code.
Module 4: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Entity Data
This module introduces you to the ways that the Entity Framework
enables you to modify the data in your database. You apply changes
to the entities managed by the ObjectContext class. The
ObjectContext class is responsible for tracking all changes to
entities and then persisting these changes to the database on
request.
Lessons
• Understanding Change Tracking in the Entity Framework
• Modifying Data in an Entity Data Model
Lab: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Entity Data
• Maintaining Contact and Reward Data
• Maintaining RewardsClaim Data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe how the Entity Framework implements change tracking.
• Describe how to modify data in the entity model, and persist the
changes to the database.
Module 5: Handling Multi-User Scenarios by Using Object
Services
This module introduces the concurrency model that the Entity
Framework uses to address the issues faced by applications that
must support multiple users who access the same data
simultaneously. It also describes how the Entity Framework can make
use of transactions to ensure data integrity.
Lessons
• Handling Concurrency in the Entity Framework
• Transactional Support in the Entity Framework
Lab: Handling Multi-User Scenarios by Using Object Services
• Handling Concurrency of Rewards Claimed Data
• Updating the RewardsClaimed and ArchivedRewardsClaimed
Information by Using a Transaction
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the optimistic concurrency model that the Entity
Framework uses.
• Manage transactions in applications that use the Entity
Framework.
Module 6: Building Optimized Solutions by Using Object Services
This module explains best practices for designing and building a
scalable, optimized data access layer by using Object Services. The
module introduces several techniques that can be used to optimize
the performance of queries that execute against the conceptual
model.
Lessons
• The Stages of Query Execution
• Change Tracking and Object Materialization
• Using Compiled Queries
• Using Design-Time Generated Entity Framework Views
• Monitoring Performance
• Performing Asynchronous Data Modifications
Lab: Building Optimized Solutions by Using Object Services
• Improving the Performance of Query Operations
• Improving the Performance of Update Operations
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Explain how the Entity Framework executes queries.
• Understand the impact of tracking and object materialization on
query performance.
• Describe how to use compiled queries.
• Describe how to use design-time generated views.
• Describe how to monitor query performance.
• Describe how to perform asynchronous data modifications.
Module 7: Customizing Entities and Building Custom Entity
Classes
This module describes how to customize and extend entities with
your own business logic.
Lessons
• Overriding Generated Classes
• Using Templates to Customize Entities
• Creating and Using Custom Entity Classes
Lab: Customizing Entities and Building Custom Entity Classes
• Using a Template to Add Custom Functionality to Entity
Classes
• Creating Custom Entity Classes
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Use partial classes and methods to add business logic to
generated code.
• Create and use templates to customize code generation.
• Modify existing business classes to take advantage of entity
functionality.
Module 8: Using POCO Classes with the Entity Framework
This module introduces the ways in which you can define custom
entity classes in your Entity Framework application. By default,
Microsoft Visual Studio generates a set of entity classes for you
from the Entity Data Model (EDM). Instead of these generated
classes, you may want to use an existing set of "plain old" CLR
objects (POCO) business classes in your application You can also
extend the generated entity classes to add custom business
functionality to your entity objects.
Lessons
• Requirements for POCO Classes
• POCO Classes and Lazy Loading
• POCO Classes and Change Tracking
• Extending Entity Types
Lab: Using POCO Classes with the Entity Framework
• Using POCO Classes
• Extending Your POCO Classes
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• List the requirements that their POCO classes must meet.
• Create POCO entities that support automatic lazy loading.
• Create POCO entities that support automatic change tracking.
• Describe the options for using interfaces and inheritance to
create custom entity objects.
Module 9: Building an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity
Framework
This module explains how to address the architectural issues that
can arise when building an N-Tier enterprise application by using
the Entity Framework.
Lessons
• Designing an N-Tier Solution
• Defining Operations and Implementing Data Transport
Structures
• Protecting Data and Operations
Lab: Building an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity Framework
• Creating the Contacts and Orders Data Access Tier
• Protecting Data Access Operations
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the issues and strategies that are relevant to building
n-tier applications.
• Understand the key components that they must create in order to
implement an n-tier application.
• Describe how to protect operations and data in an n-tier
application.
Module 10: Handling Updates in an N-Tier Solution by Using the
Entity Framework
This module describes how you can handle data modifications in an
n-tier solution. The module describes the different strategies for
handling modifications that you should use for the different
alternative formats for transporting data between tiers: data
transfer objects (DTOs), self-tracking entities (STEs), and simple
entities (SEs). The module also describes how to manage the
exceptions that can occur during the data modification process.
Lessons
• Tracking Entities and Persisting Changes
• Managing Exceptions in an N-Tier Solution
Lab: Handling Updates in an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity
Framework
• Handling Updates in the Data Access Tier
• Detecting and Handling Order Conflicts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe strategies that they can adopt for tracking changes in
the client application, and persisting those changes in the
database.
• Describe how to trap and handle update and concurrency exceptions
in the an n-tier solution.
Module 11: Building Occasionally Connected Solutions
This module describes how to access offline or occasionally
connected data in client applications.
Lessons
• Offline Data Caching by Using XML
• Using the Sync Framework
Lab: Building Occasionally Connected Solutions
• Modifying the Orders Application to Use Offline XML Data
• Modifying the Orders Application to Synchronize Locally Cached
Data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Cache data in local XML files by using LINQ to XML.
• Implement an occasionally connected application by using the
Microsoft Sync Framework.
Module 12: Querying Data by Using WCF Data Services
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services enable you to
create highly flexible data services that can be used to provide
access to data across the Internet or a corporate network. You can
access these services by using REST-style URIs, and they can be
easily consumed by a wide variety of applications. As WCF Data
Services are build on top of standard Internet protocols such as
HTTP and the Atom Publishing Protocol, they are an ideal choice for
delivering data to AJAX applications and Rich Interactive
Applications built using technologies such as Microsoft
Silverlight.
Lessons
• Introduction to WCF Data Services
• Creating a WCF Data Service
• Consuming a WCF Data Service
• Protecting Data and Operations in a WCF Data Service
Lab: Creating and Using WCF Data Services
• Exposing Order Data as a WCF Data Service
• Consuming a WCF Data Service
• Restricting Access to Data Exposed by a WCF Data Service
• Implementing a Business Operation in a WCF Data Service
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the purpose and features of WCF Data Services.
• Expose data by using a WCF Data Service.
• Implement a client application that can consume a WCF Data
Service.
• Grant and restrict access to resources exposed by a WCF Data
Service.
Module 13: Updating Data by Using WCF Data Services
This module describes how to use WCF Data Services to create,
update, and delete data. WCF Data Services use standard internet
protocols such as HTTP and the Atom Publishing Protocol to enable
update access to data across the Internet or a corporate
network.
Lessons
• Creating, Updating, and Deleting Data in a WCF Data Service
• Preventing Unauthorized Updates and Improving Performance
• Using WCF Data Services with Nonrelational Data
Lab: Updating Data by Using WCF Data Services
• Updating Entities by Using a WCF Data Service
• Creating and Deleting Entities by Using a WCF Data Service
• Restricting Create, Update, and Delete Requests
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Create, update, and delete entities by using a WCF Data
Service.
• Control access to data modification functionality, and improve
performance by batching commands together.
• Use WCF Data Services to access and modify nonrelational
data.
Module 14: Using ADO.NET
ADO.NET is a highly flexible framework for building applications
that require access to data held in a data source. This module
introduces ADO.NET and explains how you can use it to develop
scalable, high-performance, data-driven applications.
Lessons
• Retrieving and Modifying Data by Using ADO.NET Commands
• Retrieving and Modifying Data by Using DataSets
• Managing Transactions and Concurrency in Multiuser Scenarios
Lab: Using ADO.NET
• Using ADO.NET to Retrieve Read-Only Information Quickly and
Perform Simple Data Modifications
• Developing the Product List Web Application
• Enabling Data Modifications
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Retrieve and update data by using ADO.NET commands and stored
procedures.
• Retrieve and update data by using DataSet objects.
• Implement transactions and handle concurrency exceptions.
Module 15: Using LINQ to SQL
ADO.NET provides a mechanism that enables you to build applications
that can query and maintain data that is held in a variety of
sources in a database-agnostic manner. However, building
applications by using ADO.NET requires that you are familiar with
the Structured Query Language (SQL) language and features of the
database management system that you are connecting to.
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) to SQL provides a higher-level
abstraction for managing data that is held in a Microsoft SQL
Server database, and is an ideal stepping stone for migrating
ADO.NET applications toward the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This
module introduces LINQ to SQL and explains how you can use it to
abstract the low-level details of ADO.NET queries by developing
against a logical data model.
Lessons
• Implementing a Logical Data Model by Using LINQ to SQL
• Managing Performance and Handling Concurrency
Lab: Using LINQ to SQL
• Using LINQ to SQL to Build a Data Access Layer
• Updating a Database by Using a Stored Procedure
• Building a Custom Entity Class
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Design a logical data model by using LINQ to SQL.
• Manage performance by using LINQ to SQL, and handle
concurrency
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