AADND and AACS Combined Meeting for July

By Don Burnett

Jay Wren passed along this information and well I have to say anytime you have the opportunity to hear this speaker, you should be there. Bill is not only a great published author, but he's a great speaker and you really shouldn't miss this opportunity. It's a bit off the subject of WPF, but if you have interest in coding in C# and most of us do, his talk on "Generics" will no doubt be invaluable and a don't miss kind of event.

Here's the email I received...

Hope to see you all there..

 

Hello Computer Users and Programmers,
Ann Arbor Dot Net Developers (AADND) is having a joint meeting with the Ann Arbor Computer Society(AACS) on Wednesday July 11th, 2007 at 6pm at S.P.A.R.K (formerly IT Zone).

Come in from the hot summer heat and listen to Bill Wagner is presenting...

Generics in the C# language give you much more than collections. I'll show you a few of the techniques that generics make possible, such as generic methods, generic interfaces, and generic classes for common design patterns.

Applying these techniques and extending them with your own ideas will enable you to write code that you can reuse in many different ways. The end result:

You won't write less code, but write your code only once, and write it in such a way that you can reuse it in as many different situations as possible.

Bill Wagner, co-founder of SRT Solutions, has developed commercial software for the past twenty years, leading the design on many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products and adapting legacy systems for Windows. In 2000 he started using .NET and now spends his time facilitating the adoption of .NET in clients’ product and enterprise development. Knowledgeable in all .NET areas, Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design.

Microsoft first recognized Bill’s .NET expertise in 2003 and appointed him Regional Director for Michigan, a position that reflects his unwavering commitment to the development community. In 2005, he was re-appointed Regional Director and awarded C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. These honorary positions allow Bill previews of upcoming technologies and help ensure his clients’ success in their own technology projects.

An internationally recognized author on the C# language futures, Smart Clients and enterprise design, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member and regular columnist for over a decade with his tutorials and advanced essays published in MSDN Magazine, .NET Insight, .NET DJ, and Visual Studio Magazine. His latest book, Effective C#, was released by Addison Wesley in 2004.

Bill is a frequent speaker and delivers advanced developer topics, keynotes and technical sessions at .NET user groups, corporate functions, and national and regional software development forums. He is a founding member of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group as well as an active contributor to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.

 

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