Houston C# SIG

November 2009 Meeting

Date

November 17, 2009

Time

7:00 PM

Location

Microsoft Office ,  2000 W Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350, Houston, Texas

Topic

Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0

Speaker

Zain Naboulsi

Meeting Details

This month's speaker is Zain Naboulsi.  Zain is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Microsoft.  For over 15 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies.  He’s been a Consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995. He is the creator of Online Community Evangelism which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and OpenSim.  He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual environments but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer.  Zain’s efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others.  He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, Gartner, and the Science Channel for his work with online communities.  He is a frequent speaker at events in LinkedIn, Facebook, ReactionGrid, and other online venues. Zain also lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of online communities.

 


Topic Abstract:
It is now close to a year until Microsoft will ship Visual C# 4.0 as part of Visual Studio 2010. The VS Managed Languages team we are hard at work perfecting the next version of the language and this session is an overview of the planned language features as currently implemented in VS2010 Beta 2 or being planned for release.  So join Zain Naboulsi as we explore the new dynamic keyword, named/optional parameters, and more!

 

 

 

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