Carl and Rory chat with noted author, developer, and MVP Kathleen Dollard about Code Generation, or writing code that writes code. Don Kiely also shows up to talk about working with Kathleen on her book Code Generation in .NET. Carl and Rory also check in with Sunny Day to talk about the price of gasoline in Maine.

Kathleen’s been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. She’s worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She’s published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. She’s also a long time Microsoft MVP 1998, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.

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