Apologies that this post is fairly nonsensical. I've put my raw NZ TechEd 2011 notes up here for my reference. I'd like to think that I'll refine them over time, but that probably won't be the case.
TechEd Online
What C# dynamic keyword does
dynamic keyword - "I know better than the compiler" - deferred look up until run time. Old COM libraries - like Microsoft Office 2010. No intellisense. MVC ViewBag is of type dynamic. DynamicViewDataDictionary Inherit from dynamic object. DynamicObject.TryInvokeMember DynamicProgramming - "It's all just string diddling. Diddling is a technical term." "Really is is a fancy way of passing strings into a method." named arguments
Runtime Code Generation
Activator.CreateInstance(type); // Very slow as it uses reflection Expression.Compile() turns an abstract tree into executable code. Turn reflection based code into compiled expression trees to improve performance. Create a class that implements an interface at runtime. Interact with it at runtime. DynamicAssembly AssemblyBuilder "I'm not encouraging you to write code you don't understand. That's what the Entity Framework Generator is for" DynamicMetaObject C# Expression TreesDynamic operator using Dynamic Language Runtime