Houston C# SIG Meeting – 10/21/08 – Recap

I attended the Houston C# Special Interest Group meetings this passed Tuesday night. 

The topic of the Beginners meeting was Binding and Reflection.  This was a great topic as both are an important part of .NET development.

• Binding – Associating the address of a method with it’s invocation by a client.
• Early Binding happens at compile time
• Late Binding happens at run time
• Reflection is the ability to discover the composition of a type (class, interface, delegate, structure, enumeration, etc) at runtime.

The speaker for the C# SIG meeting was Rod Paddock and the topic was Building Business Applications using Silverlight.  He provided some very nice data driven application examples. 

*Sample application details*

• Expression Blend and Visual Studio were used to build the app
• nHibernate for the ORM (Object Relational Mapping)

What the app is to do –

• Query album data by artist
• Sort albums
• View album tracks
• Preserve Query

Simple POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects)

• AlbumSearchDTO
• Album
• AlbumTrack
• Genre
• Artist
• ValidationError

In closing, Rod Paddock did a great job keeping the material he was discussing interesting with solid know-how and stories of his experience. If you ever have a chance to catch one of his presentations, I recommend it.

Links from the presentation

• Silverlight.Net – The starting site for learning Silverlight
• FreeDb.Org – A database to look up CD information using the internet.
• Fiddler – An HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet.
• Expression Blend – Professional interactive design tool

-Always Learning