Join the Sangamon Valley .NET User Group (SVNUG) after work on Friday, April 20th, 2012, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM in the Embassy Room (Concourse level) of the Hilton (downtown Springfield) for our first special event! Kathleen Dollard - Microsoft MVP and Technical Evangelist - is coming to town to present ".NET 4.5 and Windows 8"!
Explore the .NET 4.5 beta to see the next round of changes for your favorite development tool. You'll see a new approach to asynchronous programming, support for Win 8 development, and a few other features and improvements. This session will clarify the distinction between asynchronous and multi-threading, when each is appropriate and the extra complexity of multi-threading. C# 5 and Visual Basic 11 include the concept of continuations at a language level, allowing massively simplified coding of both asynchronous and multi-threaded programs. Win 8 provides supports both a desktop framework and a smaller framework for Metro style applications. You'll get an overview of this design, how to target either framework, and how to isolate code that can run on both frameworks. The session will also give an overview of other changes within the framework, such as changes to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and garbage collection.
The presentation will start at 6:00 PM. Please join us if you are able! Refreshments will be provided! Also, for members that do not have other parking arrangements downtown, vouchers will be provided for the Hilton parking garage (off of Monroe between 7th and 8th).
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