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Part IV, ??????Appendixes,??™??™ provides a case study and a look at a couple of LINQ technologies that will be
available post??“Visual Studio 2008 but are sure to make an impact on the market: LINQ to XSD and LINQ
to the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
??‘ Appendix A walks you through building an application using LINQ and associated LINQ
providers.
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Introduction
??‘ Appendix B discusses the ADO.NET Entity Framework and associated objects as well as the
Entity Data Model Generator tool.
??‘ Appendix C discusses LINQ to XSD, a beta technology that allows you to work directly with
XML in a typed manner.
What You Need to Use This Book
All of the examples in this book require the following:
??‘ Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2)
??‘ .NET Framework 3.5 (Beta 2)
??‘ LINQ to XSD Preview
??‘ ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2
??‘ ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools CTP
??‘ SQL Server 2005 and the AdventureWorks sample database
Conventions
To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what??™s happening, a number
of conventions are used throughout the book.


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