🎄 Festive Social 2025 This month we're taking a break from talks for a festive social at Society. Chat with fellow .NET and Umbraco developers over food and drinks with multiple vendors to choose from. 📍 Society, Manchester 🕕 Tuesday 2 December 18:00

💻 Take a Note of UI in .NET 10 This month a whistle-stop tour through Microsoft's UI tech in .NET 10: ASP NET Web API, Blazor, MAUI, WinForms, WPF, WinUI + see Visual Studio 2026 & GitHub CoPilot in action! 🗣️ Peter Bull 📍 Spektrix, Manchester 🕕 Tue 11th Nov 18:00

Cute speaker souvenir from @dotnetnorth.bsky.social

🎨 Meditations on Code As Art This month, explore the artistic side of programming! Discover how developers imprint themselves on their work through history, from elegant patterns to deliberate artistic expression. 🗣️ @davidwhitney.co.uk 📍 Betfred, Manchester 🕕 Tue 14th Oct 18:00

For anyone interested in some functional code & retro computing, I'll be speaking at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social in Manchester tomorrow

So I'm gonna be doing a new and ultra weird talk next year - and I'm doing a bit of a test run at DotNetNorth next month. www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/... It's gonna be weird, come out.

🎮 Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C# @simonpainter.bsky.social dives into functional programming techniques as we rebuild the classic Oregon Trail game using C# with immutable state, higher-order functions, monads, and near 100% test coverage! 📍 BrightHR, Manchester 🕕 Tue 16th Sept 18:00

📊 Predicting Risk on the UK Strategic Road Network This month Gary Short tackles data science's dirty secret - never enough training data! Learn his methodology combining estimation, forecasting & rigour. 🗣️ Gary Short 📍 Bonded Warehouse, Manchester 🕕 Tuesday 29th July, 6:00 PM

📱 Xamarin's evolution and what comes next! This month Mike Irving takes us through Native Apps, Xamarin.Forms, tooling migration, plus exploring .NET MAUI, Uno Platform, Avalonia UI & more. 🗣️ @mikeirvingweb.bsky.social 📍 Peninsula Building, 2 Cheetham Hill Road 🕕 Tuesday 24th June, 6:00 PM

Looks like we might have a change of speaker for Tuesday - bear with us, updates will be posted here as soon as we know more.

If you're in Manchester, you should come along to eat some pizza and throw things at me.

🎮Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI with @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social! Can MIDI controllers, birdsong & a clown wig make the perfect game show? Find out! 📅 Tue May 20th, 18:00-21:00 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, Manchester 🔊 No prior knowledge needed!

Double header at Dot Net North this month! @lucecarter.bsky.social on Semantic Kernel + MongoDB AI integration, and @stevefutcher.bsky.social making software installs smoother with Chocolatey. Tickets are free, and there's pizza + drinks! 📅 Tue 15th April, 18:00 📌 Spektrix, 196 Deansgate

The talk is awesome, there's pizza, loads of awesome people to meet, AND YOU CAN WIN SOCKS! What's not to love?

Our next event is "A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing" - Victorian Plumbing's approach to DDD in code: fewer bugs, simpler solutions! 🗣️ Dave Manton, Head of Architecture at Victorian Plumbing 📍 Peninsula Building, Manchester 🕕 Tue 18th March, 18:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!

🦀 Rust meets .NET! Join us for an exciting evening exploring Rust from a .NET developer's perspective! 🗣️ @jameseastham.co.uk , Microsoft MVP & Datadog Developer Advocate 📍 Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street, Manchester 🕕 Tues 25th Feb, 18:00-21:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!

DDD North returns to Hull University on Feb 22nd! Join the developer community for a day of knowledge sharing, networking and top-notch tech talks. Free tickets available now 👉 dddnorth.co.uk/registration Don't forget to give them a follow too @dddnorth.bsky.social

Thank you @dotnetnorth.bsky.social for hosting me and letting me geek out on how copilots and other LLM based apps work, and show off my Star Wars copilot powered by @getpieces.bsky.social.

🚀 Join us as @jimbobbennett.dev shows how to build your own Jedi-powered dev co-pilot! We'll use PiecesOS to create a context-aware AI assistant (Death Star plans optional) #dotnet #manchester 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, M2 4JG 🕕 Tue 28th Jan, 18:00-21:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!

@dotnetnorth.bsky.social as promised follow up links: The announcement of free #GitHubCopilot for #VisualStudioCode code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/1... Simplified Setup code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot... Copilot Trust Centre copilot.github.trust.page?wt.mc_id=MVP... 1/2

Here’s the repo that compliments tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social talk on ”What’s new in Aspire” github.com/adenearnshaw...

UK folks - I'll be at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social in Manchester on the 28th January talking about building a Star Wars copilot with C# and @getpieces.bsky.social! Come join me. www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🎯 Deep dive into .NET Conf with talks on Aspire, .NET 9 changes, GitHub Co-pilot & Uno Platform and more from our amazing speakers! #dotnet #manchester 📍 Manchester Tech Centre (on Oxford Road by Hatch) 🕕 Tue 14th Jan, 18:00-21:00 🎟️ Free! 🍕 Food included Register: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

We're having a little pre-Christmas get together collab with Umbraco Manchester on 3rd December. No speaker this time, just your lovely faces! RSVP & deets 👉 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Time really does move faster this time of year; our Christmas do is next week! 👇

Manchester tech folks, raise your hand! 🐝🐝🐝 (Sorry if I know you and not already added you) go.bsky.app/UzwaD5

We're having a little pre-Christmas get together collab with Umbraco Manchester on 3rd December. No speaker this time, just your lovely faces! RSVP & deets 👉 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

While you're here - our next event is on 19th November. It's all about building applications quickly with Microsoft Copilot, presented by our very own @rickgarner.bsky.social! RSVP & deets here 👉 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Hello friends 👋