Juval Lowy to Speak at this month's Israel Visual C# Users Group

I normally only post the announcements of my Israel VB User Group in my blog, because posting the announcements of all of the monthly Microsoft developer and IT user groups would almost become a full time job! The Microsoft User Group community in Israel has really come a long, long way since I convinced them of my crazy idea to start a VB User group over 7 years ago...For the full list and details of the various User Groups, check here.

I am posting the annoucement of this month's Israel Visual C# Users Group meeting, for 2 main reasons:

(1) The opportunity to hear and talk to Juval Lowy for a few hours is a must-have opportunity for any .NET developer.

(2) I had a large hand in making this happen.  Juval and I know each other for quite a few years, since we are both Microsoft Regional Directors, Microsoft Software Legends, and speak at alot of the same conferences such as TechEd and VsLive.  When he contacted me several months ago and offered to speak at the IVBUG, I decided to pass the opportunity to the Visual C# Users Group due to the timing - and that the C# group is probably Juval's more natural habitat :-)

Anyway, here are the details - if you are in Israel be sure not to miss this meeting!

Topic: What’s New in .NET 2.0 for the System Developer
Lecturer: Juval Lowy

While the client frameworks and the language innovations of .NET 2.0 got most of the spotlights, .NET 2.0 introduces a wealth of new features in the CLR and the framework itself. These features extend the tools at the disposal of the system developer, and often compensate for missing .NET 1.1 functionality. The new 2.0 features include assembly aliasing and versioning. Friend assembly, application references, new asynchronous call model, new threading capabilities, serialization events and support for versioning tolerance, new remoting channel as well as a secure remoting channel, granular control of code-access security, and the introduction of promotable transactions, laying the foundation for Indigo. This talk presents each new feature and discusses its place in the .NET 2.0 ecology. Solid knowledge of .NET 1.1 system programming is required. in .Net. Using some very cool demos you will see what exactly it allows you to do.

Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), a consulting and training company. Juval is a Microsoft Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. His latest book is Programming .NET Components by O'Reilly. The book is dedicated to component-oriented programming and design, as well as the related system issues. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend and one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders.

Date:    Wednesday, December 22, 17:00 - 20:00
Place:   Microsoft Israel  
            Hapnina 2  ( Amdocs Building) 
            Ground Floor 
            Raanana 
            +972 (9) 762-5100         

Parking is parking available at the Kurkar parking lot. Proceed straight past the traffic circle and the parking lot will be on your right.