I attended the CMAP (Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals) tonight. The topic was "ASP.NET MVC4", a new version of Microsoft's web development framework.
Impressions of the meeting: Well attended. Every chair in the room was filled, with more attendees than planned. There were more attendees than the 'after meeting survey' forms, yet enough pizza for all attendees (at least those who desired pizza). It's nice to see interest in technical knowledge.
Impressions of the tech: This new version has some nice features. I'm not qualified to list them; I don't work with earlier versions and cannot compare them. Yet the tech follows in Microsoft's tradition of Visual Studio tools: wizards to built 'empty' projects (with varying degrees of non-emptiness) and a steep learning curve to accomplish anything meaningful. The .NET framework is large. It does a lot, and it demands a lot. The biggest challenge is knowing the classes available; even the presenter tonight stumbled on some class names. (A case of knowing that classes to perform specific chores do exist, but not remembering the name.)
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