[Hidden-tech] Tuesday, April 3, 2007: National speaker and expert to speak on Microsoft .NET technology

[Jami Albro-Fisher]

The Western Mass .NET Users Group will host national speaker and expert
Richard Hale Shaw for a presentation on April 3, 2007 at 6pm.  The
meeting will be held at the offices of Atalasoft, Inc.
<http://www.atalasoft.com/> , the Valley's latest software startup
success story (article
<http://www.masslive.com/news/topstories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/11749185
0488780.xml&coll=1> ).  Join us for this great presentation, Q&A and
networking with other software industry professionals.  


The Future is Here: Grokking C# 3.0 with C# 2.0 -- Richard Hale Shaw 


You may have heard about the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
features being added to C# 3.0. While powerful and elegant, the root of
C# 3.0 lambda expressions and query features are already available in C#
2.0, in the form of anonymous methods and custom Iterators. The former
are methods that you can write "as-if" they were inline, inside of an
existing methods: method building blocks as found in functional
programming languages. The latter are complete implementations of
IEnumerator/IEnumerable<T> -- but generated by the compiler, so you only
have to supply the MoveNext logic. Understand these and you're ready for
C# 3.0!
 
In this talk, Richard will start with C# 2.0 anonymous methods, show how
they work, and show how C# 3.0 lamda expressions are a more elegant and
powerful way of creating them. Then he'll turn to C# 2.0 custom
iterators, and show how their compiler-generated classes are the basis
for the powerful search features found in C# 3.0. Finally, he'll show
how using pipelining patterns let you wire-together custom iterators to
filter, order and otherwise manipulate collections -- the basis for
Sequence.Where and Sequence.OrderBy in LINQ!
_____________________________________
 
Richard is the CEO of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, where he is a
consultant, architect and lecturer who focuses on Managed Code
development of distributed systems with the C# Language and the .NET
Framework.
 
Richard is a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, and since 2002, has been a
member of the C# Customer Council: a group of hand-picked experts who
consult to the C# Team at Microsoft regarding new features and new
directions in the C# Programming Language.
 
In the Boston area, he's also known as a budding jazz bassist with a
deep love of the work of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
 
You can reach him at: www.RichardHaleShawGroup.com
<http://www.richardhaleshawgroup.com/> 

Meeting Details
Tuesday, April 3 at 6:00 PM
This meeting will be held at the Atalasoft, Inc.
<http://www.atalasoft.com/>  office in Easthampton, MA.  Click here for
a map
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=116+Pleasant+St,+Easthampton+MA
&ll=42.273625,-72.662544&spn=0.072528,0.181618&om=1> . 
Directions to Atalasoft, Inc.:

>From the South
Travel Interstate 91 North, take Exit 17B (Easthampton). Follow Route
141 to Easthampton. At the foot of the mountain, turn right onto East
St. Follow for approx. 2.3 miles. Turn left on to Ferry St. Follow to
the end. Take a left onto Pleasant St. Go approx 3/10 of a mile,
Eastworks will be on your left at 116 Pleasant St. Enter the main
entrance and take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor. The Atalasoft
office is just past the Eastworks office on the left, Suite 321

>From the North
Travel Interstate 91 South; take Exit 18 (Northampton). Take a right at
the bottom of the ramp. Follow route 5 to Easthampton. Turn right onto
East St. Follow for approx. 1.5 miles. Turn right on to Ferry St. Follow
to the end. Take a left onto Pleasant St. Go approx 3/10 of a mile,
Eastworks will be on your left at 116 Pleasant St. Enter the main
entrance and take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor. The Atalasoft
office is just past the Eastworks office on the left, Suite 321.

(if you miss East St. and end up in the town of Easthampton, follow
signs for Rt. 10 north, and take a right at the rotary onto Pleasant St.
Eastworks will be on your right.)

If you have questions, please direct them to 

Jami Albro-Fisher
<http://wmassdotnet.org/cs/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=2103>  (413-536-5989
x116)
User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group
<http://wmassdotnet.org/cs/> 

 


 

 

Jami Albro-Fisher
Director of Engineering

 

29 College Street

South Hadley, MA 01075

(413) 536-5989 x116

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