Saw some more sessions last night, including one on data access layer encapsulation with the entity framework.  I need to dig into this more, maybe a hands on lab if I can find one.  It’s not clear from the examples how parent-child relationships are loaded by the entity framework and if both eager load and lazy load situations are supported.  I have such high hopes for the entity framework that there’s almost no way I won’t be disappointed on some front.  The only reason why I haven’t spent a day looking seriously at the bits in SP1 is because I’m mostly working on MySQL right now and the MySQL/.NET team has yet to produce EDM support.

I got an email from The Clarkin on Friday asking if I’d like a “Nice dinner on Microsoft”.  He wasn’t kidding and he is in fact my bestest friend forever for thinking of me.  Dan and I met a lot of Central region nerds at Charley’s Steak House and it was excellent.  I’m no Richard Campbell but I do tend to tend to get loud in a group, and I ended up giving an impromptu rundown of the French red wines from the menu, and we did a fair bit of sampling too, all courtesy of our excellent Evangelists from the Midwest. 

As I write this Stephen Toub’s Parallel Extensions talk is about to start.  I’m 100% full up on sessions until late tonight, and after that is the MVP party at the House of Blues, but I’ll try to sneak some more comments in today.