Hello all,

Another month another awesome session for the BSPUGer's. We'll be welcoming SharePoint MVP Paul Schaelflein to Baltimore to talk about SharePoint LINQ and REST api's. It should be an awesome time and topic.

Check out this months video here http://www.vimeo.com/11795535 Bio:
Paul Schaeflein (MVP, MCT, MCTS) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has presented at user groups, as well as the Microsoft SharePoint Conference and the Best Practices conference. Paul is also a writer, providing contributions to books, periodicals, CodePlex projects and his weblog. Paul has more than two decades experience in architecting, designing and developing software solutions. This experience covers a vast range of technologies, languages and industries. Having developed many line-of-business applications, Paul has a firm grasp on the challenges that corporate developers face when integrating them into a corporate portal.



Abstract:

Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 has new and improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets a developer work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. Integration of ADO.NET Data Services provides a way to get data from SharePoint remotely using REST style web services. This talk will demonstrate how to write code that uses each of these new data oriented features and will show some new SharePoint platform enhancements along the way. We will also explain how to choose which data access technology is best for different custom development scenarios.