Alex Homer gave a splendid talk, at Monday evening's .NET Developer Network meeting, on the Enterprise Library from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group.
He then went on to talk about Cross Cutting concerns, Aspect Oriented Programming and The Policy Injection Block.
As you can tell from all the links, this was a learning experience for me.
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22 May 2007
25 April 2007
DotNetDevNet Bristol
I attended the first DotNetDevNet meeting in Bristol on Monday.
It was a brilliant event, organised by Guy Smith-Ferrier, with Mike Taulty as the inaugural speaker.
Guy explained the aims of the group. This is a free group, which is remarkable really, given the quality of speakers Guy has already lined up for the first three meetings.
Mike Taulty was entertaining and informative. I liked his approach to presenting LINQ, explaining some of the mysterious features that have been appearing in .NET recently and showing how, although they may not be things you have wanted to use, the LINQ team needed them. I found it was a struggle to keep up at times, it had been a long day... but fortunately Mike Taulty's blog has plenty of posts on LINQ and other topics to catch up on.
He also mentioned the Road Show Resources.
LINQ for SQL was very impressive. At first, I had what turned out to be inappropriate flashbacks to SQL select statements hardcoded in VB3, but then realised that this is very different. LINQ seems to offer a lot of power, and does an amazing job of figuring out the right way to behave whatever you do.
I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Alex Homer is another excellent speaker.
It was a brilliant event, organised by Guy Smith-Ferrier, with Mike Taulty as the inaugural speaker.
Guy explained the aims of the group. This is a free group, which is remarkable really, given the quality of speakers Guy has already lined up for the first three meetings.
Mike Taulty was entertaining and informative. I liked his approach to presenting LINQ, explaining some of the mysterious features that have been appearing in .NET recently and showing how, although they may not be things you have wanted to use, the LINQ team needed them. I found it was a struggle to keep up at times, it had been a long day... but fortunately Mike Taulty's blog has plenty of posts on LINQ and other topics to catch up on.
He also mentioned the Road Show Resources.
LINQ for SQL was very impressive. At first, I had what turned out to be inappropriate flashbacks to SQL select statements hardcoded in VB3, but then realised that this is very different. LINQ seems to offer a lot of power, and does an amazing job of figuring out the right way to behave whatever you do.
I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Alex Homer is another excellent speaker.
25 March 2007
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