Utah .NET User Group
Last night I attended the local .NET User Group for the first time. The speaker presented on MEF. It was quite informative. I fulling intend to use MEF to support the plugin feature of the TFS build notifier I am working on.
It was fun to get the chance to talk to other .NET devs in the area, eat free pizza and hear about another tool for the toolbox. I am not really convinced that MEF is a full IoC container and I am wasn't thrilled that all the examples were in Silverlight, but the talk was well prepared and Joe McBride (@XamlCoder) knew what he was talking about enough to stand up to Q&A. :-)
I actually was picked for 2 of the door prizes, but I declined them both. I have been a die-hard ReSharper user for 4 years now, so CodeRush doesn't interest me in the slightest. I also haven't done a desktop app in years (just Web and Server side development) so I declined the Infragistics components so that someone who will actually use them can have them. It was funny how hard it was for them to give away CodeRush. I wasn't the only one who declined it. They asked what software we would want and I recommended dotTrace because (unlike ReSharper, dotCover and RubyMine) I haven't been able to justify the cost for my personal projects. ;-)
I fully intend to make attendance at this user group part of my monthly schedule. See you there next month!
It was fun to get the chance to talk to other .NET devs in the area, eat free pizza and hear about another tool for the toolbox. I am not really convinced that MEF is a full IoC container and I am wasn't thrilled that all the examples were in Silverlight, but the talk was well prepared and Joe McBride (@XamlCoder) knew what he was talking about enough to stand up to Q&A. :-)
I actually was picked for 2 of the door prizes, but I declined them both. I have been a die-hard ReSharper user for 4 years now, so CodeRush doesn't interest me in the slightest. I also haven't done a desktop app in years (just Web and Server side development) so I declined the Infragistics components so that someone who will actually use them can have them. It was funny how hard it was for them to give away CodeRush. I wasn't the only one who declined it. They asked what software we would want and I recommended dotTrace because (unlike ReSharper, dotCover and RubyMine) I haven't been able to justify the cost for my personal projects. ;-)
I fully intend to make attendance at this user group part of my monthly schedule. See you there next month!
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