This Wednesday, November 30th brings us John Lam and a look at inter-operation between the unmanaged scripting world and managed code.
John is one of the sharpest guys I know and has not only deep technical knowledge but also a wealth of practical, in-the-trenches experience to go along with it. While simple in concept - flash cards for his 2 year old son - the application John will demonstrate takes us on a whirlwind tour from Ruby to Lightweight Code Generation to Managed C++ to the Windows Presentation Foundation. We'll take a look at what it takes to write a program in Ruby that displays flash cards using WPF graphics. We'll see how new features in .NET 2.0 make it possible to write an extremely high-performance bridge from Ruby, an unmanaged scripting language, to the .NET libraries. You'll walk away with an end-to-end understanding of how a call originates from unmanaged code to .NET and back to unmanaged code.
Since this is the last presentation of 2005 I want to make it a really good one. I've got all the goodies that we were supposed to give out last month before the unfortunate last minute cancellation plus a bunch of other good stuff. There will be at least a couple of Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect editions to give away. :-)
Rumour has it that there will also be a copy of the software bundle given away at the recent Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event earlier this month that contains VS2005, SQL Server 2005, and a coupon good for one free Certification Exam.
So, what are you waiting for?
Go sign up now!
Manulife Financial
25 Water Street South, Kitchener.
Enter off Water St. and we are just
inside to the left of Security.
Pizza, Pop and Mingling Time from 6 - 6:30 PM.
Presentation from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.