Dot Net North

Festive Meal 2025, with Umbraco Manchester, Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Main Event (Meal) at 7pm. 6:00 pm: Pre-meal drinks (optional, at Society) 7:00 pm: Table booked at **Society** 9:00 pm: Post-meal drinks (optional) Society: Basement, 100

🎄 Join us for a festive social with the .NET and Umbraco communities in Manchester.

🎫 FREE to attend
🍕 Food vendors on site (pay as you go)
🍺 Drinks and conversation

Get your free ticket here 👇 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Three alpacas sit at a restaurant table surrounded by smiling people, with burgers, chips, and pints of beer in front of them. Warm festive fairy lights create a bokeh effect in the background, giving the scene a cosy, celebratory atmosphere.

🎄 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, Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Take a Note of UI in .NET 10 is your ambitious whistle-stop tour through the A to almost Z of first-party Microsoft application user interface technologies that are support

🚀 Join us for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.

🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

Get your free ticket here 👇

💻 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

🚀 Join us for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.

🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

Get your free ticket here 👇 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

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🎨 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

Meditations on Code As Art, Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Code can be beautiful, elegant and performant, but can it deliberately be artistic? Despite how important and prolific software and programming have become over the last 5

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#, Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Originally scheduled for July, we're delighted to have rescheduled the following talk: **Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C#** \- Simon Painter Oregon Trail is often

🚀 Join us for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.

🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

Get your free ticket here 👇

A person in a red shirt sits on the ground with a laptop beside a covered wagon with large wooden wheels on a grassy plain under a cloudy sky, blending historical frontier imagery with modern technology

🎮 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, Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Data science's dirty little secret is that there's never enough data to train your model. But Gary Short wasn't bothered by that - whilst solving a problem he developed a m

🚀 Join us for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.
🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

Get your free ticket here 👇

Futuristic digital visualization of a curved motorway with vehicles, overlaid with glowing blue holographic data circles and analytical interfaces, representing smart transportation technology and road network data analysis.

📊 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

If you happen to find yourself around Manchester and at a loose end on a Tuesday do give us a shout. That looks super interesting!

DotNetNorth CHANGE - Xamarin: Moving On, Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to circumstances beyond our control, we aren't able to bring you the originally advertised talk: "Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C#" from Simon

🚀 Join Dot Net North this month for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.

🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat
Get your free ticket here 👇

📱 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, Tue, May 20, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird song offer the perfect dataset for these games? Will a rainbow clown

🆓 Free event with pizza & drinks provided. We'll continue conversations at a nearby venue afterward.

🎟️ www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🎮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!

Sweet Chocolatey Kernels!, Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Two talks for the price of zero. We have a double header for you **Semantic Kernel and MongoDB** \- Luce Carter Learn how to combine AI with C# and the most popular docum

More details + free tickets here: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

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

Oh yeah, and its totally free!

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

A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing, Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup At Victorian Plumbing we're fans of domain driven design. Instead of focusing on DDD for communication this talk focuses on the application of DDD in code. We're going to e

🎟️ Tickets are free and available via our Meetup page now but act fast as spaces are limited! www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

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 for .NET Developers, Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Rust regularly tops the StackOverflow developer survey as one of the most admired languages among developers. It's fast, it's safe, and with its beginnings as a systems pro

📍 Finding us: We're next to Crystal Maze Manchester! Head towards MoSI - we're along the private road next to the café.

🎟️ Grab your free ticket here: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🦀 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

Awesome stuff! If you could ping us a DM on here we can get the ball rolling