Heroes {Community} Launch - Indianapolis, IN (Part 2)
Posted by Dan Rigsby on 9th May 2008
Last night I presented at the Indianapolis .Net User’s Group (IndyNDA) monthly meeting. This is actually the third time I have spoken at IndyNDA in the last 4 months. I am sure the attendees are getting tired of seeing me up there. The president of IndyNDA, Brad Jones, jokingly told the audience that they would give me a four month break from speaking at the monthly meetings. This month was part 2 of the Heroes {Community} Launch event series we have been running for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. Part 2 focused on new features in C# 3.0, VB 9.0, and .Net Framework 3.5. The major areas of discussion were:
Languages :
- Type Inference
- Anonymous types
- Extension Methods
- Object & Collection Initializers
- Lambda expressions
- Automatic properties
- Partial methods
- Support for LINQ
- Query Keywords
- XML Literals (VB only)
- Ternary operator to replace IIF (VB only)
.Net Framework
- Additions to .Net 3.0 features (WCF, WF, WPF, Cardspace)
- Additions to Windows Forms
- Additions to ASP.Net
- System.Addin
- Additions to CLR (HashSet, ReaderWriterLockSlim, DataTimeOffset, TimeZoneInfo, etc)
- Expression Trees
We had around 85 people attend. Which is on the low end of average, but they were a very active audience. I had some great questions and answers to the questions that I proposed to the audience. There were times when I felt like I was losing the audience, but there was a lot of material to cover all at once. The goal of this meeting was more to show what is possible with the Languages and Framework, not to do in depth training.
Immediately after the IndyNDA meeting, I spoke at the Team Foundation System Special Interest Group (TFS Sig) and covered Scrum in a duet with Jamie Kurtz where I did a short version of my Scrum talk and Jamie covered Scrum in TFS. As with most special interest group meetings, we had a small attendance. However I was pleasantly surprised to see that 3 people drove over 3 hours from Decatur, IL specifically to see the Scrum talk.
For those who attended either event, I am always looking for presentation feedback (positive or negative). Feel free to post a comment here or email me (see address on About Me page).
Here are the presentations including slides, before and after projects, code snippets, notes, etc.:
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