Mike Irving

Live coding in progress from Joshua Crowe at tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social session. Impressive!

Meeting room, with rows of seats

Before the crowds arrive for tonight’s Dot Net North

Meetup: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#DotNet #MVPBuzz

Building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#, Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup Extensible CLI In this talk, Josh will explain how he designed an extensible architecture for building small, high-leverage internal CLI tools quickly. Complete with workfl

I'm looking forward to Dot Net North in #Manchester on Tuesday.

Come join us to see Joshua Crowe present 'Building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#'

A free event, with refreshments provided

www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#DotNet #MVPBuzz

Building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#, Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup Extensible CLI In this talk, Josh will explain how he designed an extensible architecture for building small, high-leverage internal CLI tools quickly. Complete with workfl

I'm looking forward to Dot Net North in #Manchester on Tuesday.

Come join us to see Joshua Crowe present 'Building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#'

A free event, with refreshments provided

www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#DotNet #MVPBuzz

Macc Tech · Events Calendar View and subscribe to events from Macc Tech on Luma. A meetup for Macclesfield's Tech Community. A place for the tech enthusiasts of Macclesfield to learn, share ideas, and network.

For last week's event, we ran ticketing via Luma.

Didn't attend? You can subscribe to our events calendar at luma.com/MaccTech

#Macclesfield #Bollington #Cheshire

Coming up at Dot Net North, Joshua Crowe on building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#. Small, high-leverage internal tools with workflow logic, a state machine, type-safe command parsing and routing. If you're tired of messy scripts, this one's worth a look. 🛠️

Intro slides on laptop, ready to begin

Chris presenting, view from side of audience

Tom presenting, view from back of audience

Tom presenting, aside screen

Thank you to all who came to our first #MaccTech of 2026 this week, to our speakers Chris & Tom, and to LOVELIVE for hosting us

Info, Slides: www.macctech.co.uk/events/20260...

#Macclesfield

.NET 10 support in Visual Studio 2022 .NET 10 is here, and you'll likely want to use it. It is recommended that you upgrade to Visual Studio 2026, but how do you use it if you're sticking with VS2022?

Want to use .NET 10, but not yet ready to embrace Visual Studio 2026?

Check out my latest blog on .NET 10 support in Visual Studio 2022

www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#VisualStudio #DotNet #MVPBuzz

.NET 10 support in Visual Studio 2022 .NET 10 is here, and you'll likely want to use it. It is recommended that you upgrade to Visual Studio 2026, but how do you use it if you're sticking with VS2022?

Want to use .NET 10, but not yet ready to embrace Visual Studio 2026?

Check out my latest blog on .NET 10 support in Visual Studio 2022

www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#VisualStudio #DotNet #MVPBuzz

Macc Tech: Fiction, Games, Audio Entwined · Luma We’re back for 2026 with our first event at LOVELIVE in Macclesfield. Join us for a series of talks and a chance to meet, mingle and share ideas, with…

Macc Tech will return on Wednesday 28th January at LOVELIVE, Macclesfield

RSVP free at luma.com/rclvr0sp

#Macclesfield #Bollington #CheshireEast #TechCommunity

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. Timeline and First Slide shown. Slide reads ".NET 10 Breaking Changes, Mike Irving - Microsoft MVP", with a picture of a robot in a spaceship, and the .NET Logo

I'm working on my '.NET 10 Breaking Changes' presentation for Tuesday Evening's ".NET Conf Local" @dotnetnorth.bsky.social event in #Manchester

RSVP Free at www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#DotNet #DotNetConf #MVPBuzz

DotNetNorth does .NET Conf, Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup We will be recapping and reviewing some of the interesting announcements from .NET Conf. Aden Earnshaw \- What's New in Aspire Mike Irving \- \.NET 10 Breaking Changes R

Next event 🚨 DotNetNorth does .NET Conf

🗓️ Tuesday, Jan 13 · 6:00 PM
📍 Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street
🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. Timeline and First Slide shown. Slide reads ".NET 10 Breaking Changes, Mike Irving - Microsoft MVP", with a picture of a robot in a spaceship, and the .NET Logo

I'm working on my '.NET 10 Breaking Changes' presentation for Tuesday Evening's ".NET Conf Local" @dotnetnorth.bsky.social event in #Manchester

RSVP Free at www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#DotNet #DotNetConf #MVPBuzz

My Year in the Tech Community I've travelled far in 2025: presenting, event staffing, and even travelling to the USA for MVP Summit! Read my look back at a year in the tech community.

Happy New Year 2026 🥳

I am hoping it is a good year to come.

ICYMI, here's my 2025 look back blog post:

My Year in the Tech Community

www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#TechCommunity #DotNET #MVPBuzz #PublicSpeaking

My Year in the Tech Community I've travelled far in 2025: presenting, event staffing, and even travelling to the USA for MVP Summit! Read my look back at a year in the tech community.

Happy New Year 2026 🥳

I am hoping it is a good year to come.

ICYMI, here's my 2025 look back blog post:

My Year in the Tech Community

www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#TechCommunity #DotNET #MVPBuzz #PublicSpeaking

My Year in the Tech Community I've travelled far in 2025: presenting, event staffing, and even travelling to the USA for MVP Summit! Read my look back at a year in the tech community.

It's time for my annual retrospective blog post: "My Year in the Tech Community"

👀 www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#MVPBuzz #dotNET #AI #TechCommunity

My Year in the Tech Community I've travelled far in 2025: presenting, event staffing, and even travelling to the USA for MVP Summit! Read my look back at a year in the tech community.

It's time for my annual retrospective blog post: "My Year in the Tech Community"

👀 www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b...

#MVPBuzz #dotNET #AI #TechCommunity

🎄 Season’s Greetings!

We’re working on an event for January 2026. Details to follow soon 🤶

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🎄 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

Travelling into Manchester for the last regular Dot Net North event of the year: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Dark already, and windy, but I’m looking forward to it 🚂

In December we have a social: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

#TechCommunity #DotNet #DotNet10

Umbraco in the City. Manchester. (logo)

I’m up early travelling to Manchester

I’m staffing / helping out at ‘Umbraco in the City’. Hoping to be inspired and learn lots too.

@umbmanchester.bsky.social #umbraco

Mike showing "Magic Moments" from the Hedgehogs

Room filling up, pre presentation

Complimentary Pizza

Mike, mid presentation

Thank you to everyone that came to Chester Devs last night, for my presentation of .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!

A lovely audience, a great turnout, pizza and beer too 🍕🍺

#DotNet #IoT #CSharp #MVPBuzz #Chester

💻 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

I'll be delivering my talks ".NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!" at Chester Devs on the evening of Tuesday 4th November 🦔

To attend, please RSVP over at Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/net-iot-an...

#Chester #DotNet #MVPBuzz

I'll be delivering my talks ".NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!" at Chester Devs on the evening of Tuesday 4th November 🦔

To attend, please RSVP over at Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/net-iot-an...

#Chester #DotNet #MVPBuzz

A quick look at Dev Tunnels Visual Studio Dev Tunnels can be a great way of sharing and debugging pre-published Web Applications and APIs.

New Blog: A quick look at Dev Tunnels www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b... #MVPBuzz #DotNet #VisualStudio

A quick look at Dev Tunnels Visual Studio Dev Tunnels can be a great way of sharing and debugging pre-published Web Applications and APIs.

New Blog: A quick look at Dev Tunnels www.mike-irving.co.uk/web-design-b... #MVPBuzz #DotNet #VisualStudio

Announcing Uno Platform and Microsoft .NET team Collaboration Announcing the partnership between Uno Platform and Microsoft’s .NET team: deeper collaboration, key contributions to .NET MAUI, SkiaSharp, and more.

Dear .NET community

Announcing our official collaboration with Microsoft!

We’re stepping up our contributions to .NET, helping advance the ecosystem as a whole.

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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