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	We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site.
August 26	An Evening with Kathleen Dollard: Generics Object Orientation
Wednesday Malvern, PA	Our monthly meeting will be held at the Penn State Great Valley Conference Center in Malvern, PA on Wednesday, August 26 from 5:30-8:30. Refreshments are provided courtesy of INETA. Please register on our web site. Detailed directions are on the Penn State web site.
5:30	Kathleen Dollard, AppVenture 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%! Kathleen Dollard is the Chief Technologist for AppVenture (www.appventure.com. She has been a Microsoft MVP for 11 years and is a member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies and writes the monthly column “Ask Kathleen” in Visual Studio Magazine (www.visualstudiomagazine.com). Kathleen is also active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, Denver Visual Studio User Group, Northern Colorado Architect’s Group, and IASA Denver.
6:30 Q&A	Bill Wolff, philly.net leader, ask questions, get answers from your peers!
6:45 Break	Meet your peers. Refreshments and drinks courtesy of INETA.
7:00	Kathleen Dollard, AppVenture Rethinking Object Orientation
	Once your grounded in generics, you’ll take a look at Decades after object orientation design altered programming, it’s still evolving, and we’re still learning to use it better. Many changes in the tools we use and how we write applications affect the approach we take to OOD. Some of these changes relate to architecture where new approaches like SOA and MEF alter the place of traditional OOD within the bigger picture of architecture. Other changes are language improvements that alter the very meaning of the phrase “object” from a design point of view. This talk focuses primarily on the effects of language features like generics, extension methods, partial classes/methods, reflection, anonymous types, and declarative programming.
8:30 Closing & Raffle!	Books, software, and other goodies!

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