Thanks a lot to the guys that run NxtGen Southampton and the attendees who came along to my talk on the ADO.NET Entity Framework this evening.

I really enjoyed it and hope that you enjoyed it too if you came along - the venue was really interesting ( in what felt like a connecting space between two buildings that are part of a Church ) and thanks a lot to John and Rich who put a lot of effort into getting together a great AV setup and did some sterling work around giving away the essential "swag" :-)

If you're around the Southampton area doing .NET development then you should definitely get along to this group.

Follow up resources from my talk;

http://www.datadeveloper.net ( has a handy set of links including the "Get Entity Framework Beta 3" link )

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet ( the ADO.NET blog )

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/08/29/9691.aspx ( Some links from me about Entity Framework ( some are Beta 2 so beware of that ) )

Once again, thanks to NxtGen for inviting me and thanks to the attendees for coming along.