There's been a lot of talk lately about new languages for the .NET platform.
One of these languages, IronPython, a port of the Python programming
language, started out as an experiment to see how dynamic languages would
perform on the CLR. The experiment proved enough of a success that it
eventually gave birth to the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), the basis not
only of IronPython, but also IronRuby and VBx. In this talk, we'll talk
about the basics of IronPython and some of its features before coding-up
some examples.

To help celebrate the launch of VS.NET, a few lucky winners will get a copy of Visual Studio .NET 2008.  If we have more than 20 people we will also be raffling off Windows Vista Ultimate! Be sure to bring a friend along.

Darrell Hawley is a C# developer working with both web and windows applications. Currently, he is working in the automotive sector with a team of engineers and software developers solving complex engineering problems using the .NET Framework. During a four year stay at a Farmington Hills, MI advertising company, he streamlined business processes and acted as the company SQL Server administrator. He has also worked with WCF, WSE, Web Services, VB6, VBA, VBScript and ASP. He recently has been researching Python and IronPython and is actively involved in the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group.