I have two potential topics I wish to cover. Can't do both though. Both can get pretty deep, and I will have a tough time fitting it into a single session as it is. So even after concluding a topic, I will need to whittle down the details. But first on to the topics.

Leave a comment, send me a message, whatever. Just let me know which of these two topics interests you most for a Code Camp session. I will probably save the other one for a possible Fall code camp, or another user group presentation. The subjects are both just too interesting to me for me to totally ignore either one.

• Topic #1: Asynchronous Programming

"Fully Baked" CLR support: Async Delegates, Thread Pools, System.Timer, and Queued Work Items. "Partially Baked" CLR support: Thread/ThreadStart, interthread communication, monitoring, signaling, and syncronization. Also would touch on important topics such as debugging, concurrency, Control.Invoke, lock(this), and deadlocking/performance implications. The end of the presentation would also talk about some exciting new async support in Whidbey for event-based async processing. In other words: "This ain't your daddy's multithreading presentation"

• Topic #2: Performance Planning, Design, and Tuning

In my opinion, a really important topic, but also really big. I would cover results-based performance programming, memory management (yes, its still important!), algorithm selection, profiling, and evaluating trade-offs. Would also touch on other aspects of performance, such as choosing your battles and managing the user experience/expectations. Lastly would talk a little about impact of Whidbey (generics/boxing, etc).

Let me know what you want to hear about!