Note that starting in January 2007, NWNUG's meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month (instead of the last Tuesday). This means that NWNUG's meeting will now be aligned with GANG's meeting, which is the third Wednesday of each month in Southfield, MI.

In the ever-changing world of software development, we must constantly keep up with new technologies. In fact, so much time is spent absorbing new APIs, documentation and hype that we are often left with very little time to improve our coding skills. This session will some discuss general ways to improve code quality that apply to all languages. In addition, we’ll cover several ways to use C# 2.0 (and some future C# 3.0) features to create readable and elegant code.

Dustin Campbell is a lead developer for the IDE tools division at Developer Express Inc. His responsibilities at Developer Express include much of the low-level plumbing of the award-winning CodeRush and Refactor! products. Dustin is an expert in many advanced areas of .NET and specializes in design patterns, refactoring and object-oriented design.