Austin Code Camp 2009

Yesterday I attended Austin Code Camp 2009. As always it was a great event and you can’t beat the price. There were several great one and two hour sessions to choose from.  Of course, there was the issue of everyone wanting to attend the same session, so it did get rather crowded at times -or- you had to sit in on a session you were not planning for.  Even with that, it was a good day of learning.

Below are the sessions that I attended.

Sneak peek at C# 4.0 — Jimmy Bogard

There were 50+ in attendance, with several people standing. Looked to be a pretty popular session.

New items in C# 4.0 include

• Dynamic
• Named and Optional Parameters
• Generic Variance

SQL Server Reporting Services: Report Creation and Deployment — Anil Desai

There were about 20 in attendance. I was able to see this presenter last year and he is a great and knowledgeable presenter.

The process of setting up SQL Server Reporting Services was discussed as well as the creation and deployment of the reports. Anil demonstrated creating reports in both the Report Designer and Visual Studio.

Applying Refactoring techniques to prune the legacy code — Mahendra Mavani

There were about 6 in attendance. 

Most of the other attendees were in the Enterprise Architecture Patterns: Presentation, Business Logic, and Persistence session.

Building Business Applications with Silverlight 3.0 — Todd Anglin

Another pretty crowded session.

Todd did a great job in presenting on the great things that can be done using Silverlight.

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Related Content

• Presentation Demos and Slide Decks
• Austin Code Camp was a hit! – Jeffrey Palermo
• Austin Code Camp 2009 Was A Ton-O-Fun! – Derick Bailey

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All in all, the Austin Code Camp was a great day of learning and I will be there again next year.