The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Our monthly meetings will offer refreshments, professional networking and educational programs and we will often have some great items to give away.

Meetings are normally held on the 3rd Thursday of every month from 6 to 8:30 PM in the training center of our meeting host, dataBridge, located near Asheville at 6 Winners Circle in Arden near the intersection of Sweeten Creek, Hendersonville, and Airport roads. Click here for a map and directions.

Anyone interested in .NET software development is invited to join our group. We invite you to register so that you will be notified of upcoming meetings and events. Your contact information will not be used for any marketing purposes. You are invited to attend whether you register or not. See the individual meeting announcements to add the event to your calendar and to RSVP so that we can estimate refreshments for our meeting sponsors.

If you have an interest in helping to sponsor or making presentations at meetings please contact us.

It’s a new year and things are already changing. Last November our location hosts informed me that the logistics of us holding meeting on Thursday nights has become a problem. We had a special meeting at ImageSmith in December. Sadly it was our last one after 3 and ½ years. ImageSmith will continue to host our website.

With help from Guy and Rick, we have found a new location. The 2012 meetings will be held at the dataBridge offices located at 6 Winners Circle Suite 3, Arden, NC 28704. The offices can actually be seen from outside ImageSmiths office.

From I-26 exit 40, Airport Road. Turn the opposite direction from the airport, you should see a McDonald's on your right, keep going. You'll pass a Wal-Mart on the left after a few traffic lights. Then you'll come to a large intersection down the hill (Hendersonville Rd), go straight, the road becomes Sweeten Creek Rd. At about 1/2 mile, make a left onto Winners Circle. The building is in the back right of the complex. Enter the door on the left.

Our January 19th meeting Chris Eargle will be presenting The Legend of Lamda.

Lambda expressions are a powerful feature of C#, one that can be wielded for good or evil. Attend this session for an adventure through the evolution of the C# language, from the depths of the delegate keyword to the expressiveness of the lambda expression. I will show you how anyone can easily learn to wield and empower code with lambda expressions. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: =>.

Chris Eargle is a Telerik Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – C#, and two-time INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC, USA. He has over a decade of experience designing and developing enterprise applications, and he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. He is a frequent guest of conferences and community events promoting best practices and new technologies. His blog, kodefuguru.com, has been featured on ASP.NET, MSDN, and Reddit.

Please RSVP.

Bring any computer books and other previous prizes you may have gotten such as software etc. if you want to trade them with someone for something else. Maybe you have already read the book or don't need the software and someone else does and wants to trade.

Bring in your book reviews.

Agenda:
* 6:00 PM Networking and Refreshments
* 6:30 PM Announcements and Introductions
* 6:45 PM Presentation - Legends of Lamda
* 8:15 PM Prize drawings
* 8:30 PM Wrap-up

Prizes include:
Software by Telerik
A few books will also be available.

Technical Sponsor - Logical Advantage
Logical Advantage is a well respected Software Consulting Company. We partner with a wide range of clients solving a wide rangeof business issues through integrated software solutions. We accomplish this through our SoftwareConsulting Services, Full Software Development Life Cycle Services, and ourWorkforce Management Solutions.

Our meeting location is hosted by dataBridge.
dataBridge is a SharePoint consulting, development and training firm that provides collaboration solutions for businesses. We help users in companies large and small grow their businesses by being able to share information and work together, anywhere and anytime.

Our web site is hosted by ImageSmith Communications.
ImageSmith Communications is a marketing and communications company specializing in start-to-finish print and digital marketing pieces and campaigns.

Here is a summary of what we already have lined up for future meetings:

January 19, 2012 - Chris Eargle (@KodefuGuru)

February 16, 2012 - Phil Japikse (@skimedic)

March 15, 2012 - Brady Gaster (@bradygaster)

April 19, 2012 - Chris G. Willians

May 17, 2012 - Les Pinter