I’ve really gotten a lot out of this book. Vijay Mehta does an excellent job of encompassing both ORM and LINQ topics important to professional software development into one affordable text. He opens with an overview of Object Relational Mapping (ORM), and the criteria he uses when evaluating ORM solutions, including a quick synopsis of how LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework rate against his criteria. This provid ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” in Latin, was written in 1215 by English barons to limit the English monarchy’s power and help prevent a pending civil war (Fiero 6). King John begrud ...