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.

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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.

The Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group (AADND) will be hosting Matt Winkler, Technical Evangelist for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), at their meeting on January 10 (second Wednesday of the month).

If you haven't heard, WF is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. WF radically enhances a developer’s ability to model and support business processes.

Sound interesting? Make sure you don't miss AADND on January 10th starting at 6:00 pm at the Ann Arbor IT Zone Spark Central located at 330 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

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Matt Winkler is the Technical Evangelist for Windows Workflow. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, home of Budweiser and toasted ravioli.  After college at Denison University, he returned to work for a consulting firm and a software development firm.  For the last few years he has been focused on integration and workflow technologies, so he's very excited about Windows Workflow, and looking forward to finding many different cool uses for it.