Indy .NET Consortium

Presenter: Auri Rahimzadeh, Principal Software Architect, Momentum3
Time: Pizza at 6:00, Presentation Starts at 6:30pm Eastern
Location: Theoris, 9000 Keystone Crossing, Suite 230, Indianapolis

Did you know you don't have to pay for Claude Code, Codex, even GitHub Copilot for many coding tasks? Free models you can run on the right hardware can perform similar to frontier models for many routine needs, saving you hundreds to thousands of dollars. Better yet, your code is securely stored on your machine, never leaving your network. Auri will explain lessons learned and best practices so you can make Local LLM work for you, too.

Presenter: Barret Blake, Microsoft MVP
Time: Pizza at 6:00, Presentation Starts at 6:30pm Eastern
Location: Theoris, 9000 Keystone Crossing, Either Downstairs or in Suite 230 if main meeting room isn't available, Indianapolis

Presentation by Michael Hess, Microsoft MVP.

As a C# developer, it can be a challenge to keep up with all the new language features that Microsoft gives us. Old code still compiles, and old habits die hard. In this presentation we'll look at some of my very favorite new(ish) language features. These are things I use every day:

• Pattern Matching Switch Expressions (C# 8 and C# 9) - So versatile
• Target Typed New Constructors (C# 9) - Say goodbye to "var"
• Value Tuples (C# 7) - Underutilized and powerful
• String Interpolation (C# 6) - Not really new, but are you using it?
• Collection Expressions with Spread (C# 12) - Even easier initialization
• Null Conditional Assignment (C# 14) - At last!

Looking forward to seeing you there!