Getting Ready for VSlive! New York

In two weeks is the VSLive! Conference in New York City, where I'll be giving two presentations.  This promises to be another great conference, and especially fun for me to be back in my home town.  You can still sign up to attend - see the details at http://vslive.com/2008/newyork/
If you make it over, please let me know so we can get together.

Here the abstracts for my sessions:

The ADO.NET Entity Framework and Entity Data Model
Monday, September 8, 11:15 a.m.
Come learn about Microsoft's newly released Object Relational Mapping (ORM) offering - the ADO.NET Entity Framework and the Entity Data Model. See how they simplify and raise the level of abstraction available for data programming. The Entity Framework is an evolution of ADO.NET that you already know and love and is built upon the standard ADO.NET Provider model which allows access to third party databases. Designers for Visual Studio are also available to make your development even more productive.

Using SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition
Tuesday, September 9, 1:45 p.m.
SQL Server Compact Edition is no longer limited to mobile devices ­ you can use it to develop desktop applications as well ! This session will introduce you to SQL Server Compact Edition and show you how you can build today both standalone and occasionally connected applications with this lightweight database engine. We will discuss the various options and tradeoffs for deploying, developing, and synchronizing with a central database server. We will also show how SQL Server Compact Edition is a cornerstone of Synchronization Services for ADO.NET and will demo the tools in Visual Studio 2008 for configuring this synchronization between SQL Server and SQL Server Compact Edition.