We've moved! We now meet in the new Microsoft office in Edina: 3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600.

Please join us Thursday, January 5th for the Twin Cities .NET User Group Meeting. Food, courtesy of ILM, and beverages will be served at 5:00, and the speaker will start at 5:15.

Topic: "Managing the .NET Compiler"

With the public release of Project Roslyn, Microsoft has finally let .NET developers get access to their long-awaited compiler APIs. The potential impact of having a compiler API available for all developers is immense. In this session, you'll get a tour of the elements behind this new API, such as syntax trees and engines, and how you can use them in code analysis and metaprogramming techniques.

Speaker: Jason Bock

Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com) and a Microsoft MVP (C#). He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", and the forthcoming "Metaprogramming in .NET". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and runs the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

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