HDNUG Meeting – 02/11/10 – Recap

I attended the February Houston .NET User Group meeting. There was a great turnout (80-90) considering how bad the weather was. The sponsor was New Horizons, an independent IT training company.

Announcements
Some people from TechSmith will be here for next month’s meeting
Meeting #100 is coming up quick. There will possibly be big prizes

Main Presentation
Markus Egger from EPS Software did a great presentation on C# 4.0 focusing mainly on the Dynamic aspects.

Types of .NET Lanuages

• Traditional – C#, VB.NET
• Functional – F# — Book recommendation: Expert F#
• Dynamic – IronPython, IronRuby

Dynamic (Python, Ruby, JavaScript) – Advantages

• Simple
• Implicitly typed
• No compilation

One of the main disadvantages of dynamic languages is the lack of Intellisense support.

Static (C#, VB.NET) languages – Advantages

• Performant
• Intelligent tools
• Better scaling

DLR – Dynamic Language Runtime

DynamicObject class

REST

Named and Optional Parameters

Improved COM Support

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Markus Egger’s Information

• Presentation and Demos for C# 4.0 Dynamic Programming
• Email – MEgger@eps-software.com
• Twitter – @MarkusEgger
• Blog – http://www.MarkusEgger.com/blog

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