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✨ Stefan Pölz will be visiting from Vienna just before he does the same talk at NDC London, so this is a lifetime opportunity!

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, Charles Street Building, Room 12.4.12. This is located on the 4th floor.

• 🗺️ Hallam University Map: https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map
• 📌 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9
• 🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 Null & Void - Everything about Nothing (18:35ish)
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 Null & Void - Everything about Nothing
System.NullReferenceException: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'
I used to read this message quite almost every day.
But null references, also referred to as the "billion-dollar mistake" in that context, are also a great mechanism to express optionality and unavailability of a certain resource.

There are great tools to help us deal with ... utilize null pointers.
IDEs and Analyzers have introduced diagnostics which warn us at compile time about potential trouble at runtime.
And recently the magnificent C# 8.0 has brought us nullable reference types: a language feature which lets us annotate our API to clearly communicate the design intent of nullability.

So let's explore nullable reference types (including the accompanying nullable attributes of the BCL), their representation in both Reflection Metadata and the Roslyn API, and complement that with other available keywords and operators based on null. As a side effect, we will learn about the fundamental difference of nullable reference types and nullable value types in .NET. Additionally, we shall discover an alternative to null while still retaining the semantics of "nothing" - Spoiler: the null object pattern.

• 🗺️ Hallam University Map: https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map
• 📌 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9
• 🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.

Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 .Net Aspire to Kubernetes (18:35ish)
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 .Net Aspire to Kubernetes
.NET Aspire makes it easy to build cloud-native apps. It gives developers a set of tools and patterns wrapped up in NuGet packages, so they can create apps that work well in the cloud without hassle. It's all about making life easier for developers. With .NET Aspire, you get consistent tools and patterns that help you build and run distributed apps smoothly. It's all about empowering developers to build great cloud-native apps quickly and efficiently. In this session, we walk through development to deployment, build a project from scratch with .NET Aspire, and deploy it to Kubernetes!