6/11/2008 Meeting - Real World LINQ

Please join us for a entertaining and interactive session! As always, we’ll have FREE food, drinks, and prizes for attending!

Cory Smith
Cory's Blog

For our June, 2008 meeting, we're psyched to welcome back Cory Smith who will present a code-heavy session demonstrating his implementations of a killer Visual Studio 2008/VB/C# feature - Language INtegrated Query - LINQ.

Topic:

Linq in the Real World

Date:

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Time:

6:00pm

Where:

Intuit's Headquarters in Plano Texas
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You’ve seen Linq demos. Now it’s time to see Linq in action. The real world is sometimes a very ugly place. Come join the discussion around how Linq is being used to solve real world problems, today. No need to understand all the ins and outs of Linq to write code that will be potentially less prone to errors while definitely being easier to grok; especially when you return to the code six months later.

Cory Smith is the founder of XboxFriends.com, maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community. His community involvement includes: Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, VBInsider Member, Microsoft MVP, and member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council. A veteran developer (professionally writing software for over 15 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world. His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.

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NDDNUG gracoiusly thanks Intuit for their continued sponsorship
and support. Without their fine meeting facilities awesome team members, our meetings would not be possible.

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