Philly ALT.NET July Meeting

Reactive Extensions for .NET

Abstract: Asynchronous programming is hard. Really hard. Version 4 of the .NET framework introduced several useful asynchronous libraries and abstractions, including IObserver/IObservable interfaces, the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and PLINQ, but didn't tie these together with a higher-order, cohesive API. The Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx.NET, informally) fills this gap by building on these concepts and bringing event-based programming and LINQ together. We'll explore how Rx.NET can make event handling more declarative, push-based programming less painful, and your code hopefully better :).

Jon Graves is a Center City-based freelance software engineer with a passion for building cutting edge, thoughtfully designed user interfaces that excite and engage. He has become well-versed in agile techniques while working on a wide range of XP and Scrum based projects and has used these ideas to enable teams to reduce bugs and ship software on time. He values proper and flexible system design at every layer in a software stack and continues to learn and pragmatically apply concepts, patterns, and frameworks while building high quality software in a variety of different industries.