C# User Group - April 4, 2005

I went to last night's C# user group.  Although I've been to a few DNUGs, I had not been to the C# group before.  I was not disappointed.

The pre- networking session was somewhat lively, with several people carrying on a discussion of the pros and cons of DotNetNuke.  It was interesting, as I don't normally pay a lot of attention to what is going on in ASP.NET space.

I also met the .NET Regular Guys, pretty cool.  Brendon has a picture of the back of Clark Allen's head.  Paul Wilson is the invisible guy sitting to the right of Clark.  It was really good to see Paul and Clark again.  I really don't get a chance to see them as often as I'd like.

Keith Rome had a really good presentation of Asynchronous Programming, with one of the best descriptions that I've seen on locking issues.  He's delivering the same presentation at the Atlanta Code Camp next month.  Don't miss it!

Also presenting on new c# 2.0 language features was Mitch Harpur.  My favorite part was his talk on preconditions on generics.  I wasn't aware that these were part of c# generics.
Mitch also did a good job of giving real life examples - so many talks on generics all seem to boil down to "Look, you can make a strongly typed Hashtable!"  With Mitch's experience with .NET 2.0, he was able to bring real-world scenarios to the table.