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That's right. Canada can't get enough of me because 2 days after cementing Toronto, I find that I will be one of many honored speakers this year at DevTeach in Montreal June 18-22. My sessions, along with all the others, are here. I'm really excited as so many of my good friends are on the list, it will be like a big party!

Advanced COM Interop with C#
Sam Gentile - NET256
Many C# developers are finding that they need to interoperate with existing legacy COM components from their C# applications. There are profound differences between the COM and the CLR model and thus COM Interop out of the box doesn’t always do what the C# developer expects. We’ll review Runtime Callable Wrappers (RCWs) and COM Callable Wrappers (CCWs) and then quickly look at code-focused ways of improving your Interop experience

Developing occasionally connected CF applications
Sam Gentile - NET357
Sessions proposal in progress

Hardcore .NET
Sam Gentile - NET355
Want to take your .NET knowledge much deeper? Want to more effectively write .NET Framework code that makes maximum utilization of the CLR? In this session, we will dive deep into the CLR in areas like Value vs. Reference Types, Garbage Collection, and more but in a way that focuses on how you can write your code more effectively. Examples of code developed will include avoiding boxing penalties, Whidbey Generics, Implementing IDisposable and Finalizers and more. This is an expert level session designed to take your .NET experience deeper and to become more effective.