Lightning Talks!

When

Thursday March 20^th, 2025 @ 5:30 PM

Where

SmartDraw Software

RSVP

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We are doing something a little different for our March 2025 meetup: Lightning Talks⚡⚡⚡!

If you have a topic that is .NET or .NET-adjacent (i.e. front-end, testing, architecture, cloud, etc) that you’re passionate about but you’re not sure you can give a full 45-60 minute presentation then this is your chance - we’re going to select 3 Lightning talks that are 15-20 minutes apiece.

Our Lightning Talk Lineup

We’re excited to announce our speakers for this event:

Roslyn-Powered Standards: Automate Team Conventions

Speaker: Peter Hellmuth, Solution Support Engineer at 3E

Learn how to design custom Roslyn analyzers to enforce your team’s coding standards, transforming red squiggles into proactive code reviews that begin before you even commit. Develop quick fixes that allow developers to resolve violations with a single click, improving efficiency and consistency. For non-negotiable rules, integrate analyzers into your CI/CD pipeline to catch issues early and enforce standards before code merges.

Level: Introductory and overview
Topics: C#, Continuous Delivery, Tooling, Patterns & Best Practices

Semantic Search with SQL Server

Speaker: Travis Plummer, Developer at SmartDraw

Looking to show how we can enhance everyday search with Natural Language Processing.

Level: Intermediate
Topics: C#, Architecture

Supercharge Your .NET Testing with NCrunch

Speaker: Tony Cardella, Software Engineer / Software Engineering Capability Lead at BJSS

Tired of waiting for tests to run? NCrunch is a powerful continuous testing tool for .NET that runs your tests in the background, providing instant feedback, real-time code coverage, and parallel execution to speed up development. In this lightning talk, we’ll explore how NCrunch works, highlight its key features, and see it in action with a quick demo.

Level: Introductory and overview
Topics: C#, Testing, Tooling

If this sounds like fun, please submit our speaker interest form here: https://forms.gle/aVzeVpvVhAkdfWLy7

Food / Drinks

Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us (on meetup) if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.

Directions and Parking Instructions

Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor.