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Ian Russell

Excellent; I can see why this was highly rated when previously delivered.

Hue Holleran

Very fast-paced session with excellent prepared examples - required a lot of skill to deliver this session flawlessly - and Kathleen managed to do just that! Very enjoyable session and a privilege again to have such a high caliber presenter.

Mark White

Although I have a reasonable understanding of generics, the presentation reinforced that plus I picked-up a couple of new gems. Great enthusiasm from Kathleen for the subject!

Phill Demoore

Can't fault this. I disagree with VB coders being better because they can read C#. It's more the case that C# is more readable an intuitive in its syntax (most of the time). Listening the Kathleen it was clear that she understood her subject and recovered well on any problems, answering well any questions posed. Excellent!

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Event: Generics with Kathleen Dollard

Kathleen Dollard is over from the States and passes by to talk to us about generics and refectoring. We'll also be having Pizza, a nugget and some good old Swaggin' - Not to be Missed!

If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
Region:	Cambridge
Location:	Microsoft Research Cambridge Microsoft Research Cambridge Roger Needham Building 7 J J Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FB
Time:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Breakdown

Richard Hopton	XAML vs. XML
Demonstrating some of the performance & functionality gains of using the XAML Serializer in place of the XML one, the few down sides & showing how to make the switch

Kathleen Dollard	Refactoring with Generics
Generics open up new opportunities to increase the robustness of your code, improve its performance, and significantly reduce the total amount of code you write. After a brief introduction to generic syntax, Kathleen will show you how using generics improves the quality of your code. You’ll see how easy it is to shift your current collections to generic collections and learn how LINQ takes advantage of generic enumerable sets. You’ll learn how to write your own generic methods and classes. You’ll see how to leverage the spectrum of generic possibilities in a business object hierarchy that reduces the total lines of code by about 50%! Finally we’ll take a deep dive into nuances of generics, such as their relation to shared data, layered generics, reflection, and lambda expressions You’ll walk out of this talk understanding how to use generics to improve your own applications.