Welcome to our first meetup of 2017 • Hosted and supported by INSTIL • .NET News • Two talks tonight on • Building with Cake.NET – Gareth Burns • Entity Framework Core – Eamonn Boyle – INSTIL • Our next meetup – Special Guest speaker • Other information
News and links • Scott Hanselman – What .NET Dev’s ought to know in 2017 • http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhatNETDevelopersOughtToKnowToStartIn2017.aspx • Mongo DB for C# • https://docs.mongodb.com/ecosystem/drivers/csharp/ • December Update to Visual Studio 2017 RC • Tech Net - Checking compatibility with .NET Portability Analyzer • https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/36600.checking-compatibility-with-net-portability-analyzer.aspx
Our next meetup The .NET Open Source Journey Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, Martin Woodward, takes us through the lessons learnt as .NET has become a true open source platform. He'll take us through the reasons why it became open source, talk about some of the things they have done right and wrong along the way and then share some thoughts as to what is in store in the near future. March/April 2017 – Details TBC
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