Many of you will already have heard of the new Ireland .NET Developer Alliance groups that are starting up around Ireland in the next month: the good news is that Galway, Cork and Waterford are now all on the circuit for .NET community events! You can find out all about these new user groups on www.developers.ie or, if you want to get more involved, drop the local user group leaders a mail: Mike Hughes (Galway), Joe Gill (Cork), Brian Delahunty or Cathal O'Riordan (South East).
Of course, INDA Dublin is also keeping themselves busy - the next meeting is Wednesday this week, with Eamon O'Tuathail giving a well-anticipated talk on C# - 2.0 and beyond. Next week, NIMTUG will also be holding a meeting, with Paul Fallon giving his talk on Indigo up in Belfast.
A full list of all the upcoming community events is included below - hope to see you at whichever location suits you best! And remember, if you have something you would like to talk about to the developer community in Ireland, either drop me a mail or get in contact with the various user groups - the more speakers the merrier!
Ireland .NET Developers Alliance (www.developers.ie) presents: C# - 2.0 and Beyond
Date: Wednesday, 15th June, 2005, 7pm.
Speaker: Eamon O'Tuathail
Location: Dublin
Overview: This session explores how C# will evolve in the short and long-term to suit the needs of professional developers. C# 2.0 will soon be ready for production use and offers rich constructs such as generics, iterators/coroutines, anonymous methods, partial types and nullable types. Further out is C? (pronounced C Omega), an experimental C# derivative language from Microsoft Research that integrates concurrency (as asynchronous methods) and XQuery & SQL data access (as C# keywords, not strings) directly in the C# language. C#+ Extensions extends C#2.0/C? in interesting ways (AOP, design by contract, specgen and concept types [generics]). The session will conclude with a practical demonstration of the new language features in use. C++ STL is the premier library of concepts, algorithms, containers, iterators & allocators. We examine how to rewrite it in C#2.0/C?/C#+.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
Northern Ireland Microsoft Technologies User Group (www.nimtug.org) presents: Indigo - Connecting Systems
Date: Monday 20th June 2005, 19:30
Speaker: Paul Fallon
Location: Belfast
Overview: In this session, Paul Fallon will provide an introduction to Indigo, Microsoft’s upcoming unified programming model for building distributed applications that are service oriented. Paul will provide an overview of Indigo's capabilities, including security, reliable messaging, and transaction support; as well as some of the key concepts on how to build service oriented applications today and prescriptive guidance to using ASMX, WSE, Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting and MSMQ.
Visit www.nimtug.org to register or find out more
Ireland .NET Developers Alliance (www.developers.ie) presents: Visual Studio 2005 and C# 2.0
Date: Friday, 24th June, 2005, 7pm.
Speaker: Paul Fallon
Location: Galway
Overview: C#2.0 comes with a significant numbers of very powerful additional new features to the language and the Visual Studio 2005 IDE which increase runtime performance and design time productivity. In C# 2.0 there have been significant additions to the language - such as generics, partial types, anonymous methods, nullable types and iterators – all of which increase the performance and productivity of C# code. In conjunction with this, the Visual C# 2005 development environment comes with developer productivity enhancements, such as refactoring tools, expansions and enhanced intellisense. In this talk, Paul will give a “few slides but lots of demos” talk on the new features in C#2.0 and cover both the new language and IDE enhancements.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
Ireland .NET Developers Alliance (www.developers.ie) presents: Indigo - Connecting Systems
Date: Wednesday, 29th June, 2005, 6pm.
Speaker: Paul Fallon
Location: Cork
Overview: In this session, Paul Fallon will provide an introduction to Indigo, Microsoft’s upcoming unified programming model for building distributed applications that are service oriented. Paul will provide an overview of Indigo's capabilities, including security, reliable messaging, and transaction support; as well as some of the key concepts on how to build service oriented applications today and prescriptive guidance to using ASMX, WSE, Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting and MSMQ.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
Ireland .NET Developers Alliance (www.developers.ie) presents: Introduction to .NET 2.0
Date: Thursday, 30th June, 2005, 7pm.
Speaker: Rob Burke
Location: Waterford
Overview: What better way to launch the South East chapter of INDA than to take a look at what's new in Visual Studio 2005. We'll explore hands-on how the new release enables developers to dramatically reduce the number lines of code required to write real-world applications in ASP.NET and Windows Forms. We'll also take a look at Team System, an integrated suite of product lifecycle tools that have been integrated into Visual Studio.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
Ireland .NET Developers Alliance (www.developers.ie) presents: Visual Studio 2005 & Compact Framework 2.0 Highlights
Date: Friday, 15th July, 2005, 7pm.
Speaker: Daniel Moth
Location: Dublin
Overview: While most may have heard of Whidbey in the context of Yukon or ASP.NET 2.0, there is a lot in it for the Compact Framework developer too. CF 2.0 brings with it numerous enhancements and VS2005 provides a tailored experience for CF developers making them first class citizens of the .NET world. Come to this session and take a look at what's new in VS2005 and CF 2.0. Guaranteed to make you want to get your hands dirty with Beta 2!
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
