We have a real treat lined up for this month's meeting on August 14.
Jim Wooley, one of the authors of LINQ In Action, will be our speaker. Jim will be giving us an Introduction To LINQ.
Jim's bio from the book reads as follows:
Jim Wooley has been working with .NET since PDC 2000 and has been actively evangelizing LINQ since its announcement in 2005. He leads the Atlanta VB Study Group and serves as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region.
The summary from the back of the book reads:
.NET applications are object-oriented, but the data is not. That's the situation when you're using a relational database, XML, and many other data stores, and for each you need a separate programming solution. Microsoft's Language INtegrated Query, known as LINQ, is a set of .NET Framework and language extensions that offers a single, simple way to query data of any form directly from C# 3 and VB.NET 9. On top of that, your persistence code gets the same compile-time syntax checking, static typing and IntelliSense available to the rest of your code.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn about one of Microsoft's exciting new technologies from an expert!
As usual we will meet in Room 401 of Building 100 at Gwinnett Technical College which is located off Sugarloaf Parkway near Hwy 316.
We have meet and greet from 6:30 PM until 7:00 followed by the meeting itself.