I found this ebook http://www.lulu.com/content/174470, do you know of any other books?

@wax

have you been using linq at all? i'm a bit lost to be honest just be reading through this

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2008/05/19/why-use-the-entity-framework-yeah-why-exactly.aspx

and the comments, it seems there's a firey debate raging over what is best to use and i'm trying to work out the truth between the different philosophys.

Could you explain why link2sql makes the need for stuff like llblgen redundant?

 

int userID = -1; // whatever

PredicateExpression                 expression  = new PredicateExpression(CustomersFields.UserId == userID);
EntityCollection   customers   = new EntityCollection();

IPrefetchPath2 path = new PrefetchPath2((int) EntityType.CustomersEntity);
path.Add(CustomersEntity.PrefetchPathAccounts);

path.Add(CustomersEntity.PrefetchPathCountries);
path.Add(CustomersEntity.PrefetchPathCustomerAccounts).
    SubPath.Add(CustomerAccountsEntity.PrefetchPathAccounts).
    SubPath.Add(AccountsEntity.PrefetchPathTaxAccounts).
    SubPath.Add(TaxAccountsEntity.PrefetchPathTaxes);


using (DataAccessAdapter adapter = new DataAccessAdapter()){
    adapter.FetchEntityCollection(customers, new RelationPredicateBucket(expression), 1, null, path);
}

// now do something with the collection

CustomersEntity customer = new CustomersEntity(customerID);
using(DataAccessAdapter adapter = new DataAccessAdapter()){
   adapter.FetchEntity(customer);
}