After some confusion about the meeting location for the C# User Group (the initial meeting location became suddenly unavailable), Paul Lockwood let everyone know that the C# group would be meeting at the Microsoft Offices in Alpharetta. Paul did a great job of scrambling to get our location secured in the final moments before the meeting.
First up at the presentation podium was Keith Rome. Keith had a great presentation on how to build an add-in for Visual Studio itself. He had a great business need – to manage large blocks of unchanging text strings within source code such as HTML or SQL. Unsatisfied with the built in resource manager, Keith built an addin called NVEdit (for editing Non-Volatile data).
After Keith was finished with his demo and presentation the group discussed it’s future locations, format, and the kinds of presentations we most wanted to see. Keith Rome and Paul Lockwood travelled to the Florida Code Camp and spent time in the airport discussing what topics and meeting formats they might most like to see in the future. They popped off some great ideas, including a “code bruise” format, where we have multiple short presentations followed by a longer, more in-depth (traditional) presentation. We’ve got the three topics for the March meeting planned out and we’ve even got one or two of the presentations for the April meeting all planned out. Next month our feature presenter will be none other than Mr. Doug Turnure himself! Be prepared for an under the covers exploration of .Net memory management and garbage collection. Paul was very serious when he said he was ratcheting up the technical content in these meetings. The C# group is not the place for newbies!
— Matt Ranlett
Continuous reminder mode:
Feb 14th – Valentine’s Day! Be sure you have dinner reservations AND/OR chocolate. No SQL Server group
Feb 17th – MSDN Event at Phipps Plaza followed by a .Net Pub Club event
Feb 21st – Atlanta Mobility UG meeting featuring Shawn Wildermuth at the Microsoft office.
May 14th – the Atlanta Code Camp!