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Meetings Agenda

6:00pm - Doors Open

6:30pm - Meeting Begins: Welcome, Problem Clinic, Top Tips

7:00pm - Main Presentation Part 1

7:50pm - Break

8:10pm - Main Presentation Part 2

9:00pm - Presentation Ends. Retire To Bar.

Meetings Downloads

This section lists the links for file downloads for meetings.

July 2010 - May The Silverlight 4s Be With You with Richard Costall

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

.NET Boot Camp Grok Talk

May The Silverlight 4s Be With You (no slides or code yet)


June 2010 - A Guided Tour Of Managed Extensibility Framework In Silverlight 4 with Mike Taulty

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

nBuilder Grok Talk Slides

MEF in Silverlight 4 Slides


May 2010 - Leading Edge Web Development with ASP.NET MVC with Steve Sanderson

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

IronPython In C# Grok Talk Slides 

IronPython In C# Grok Talk Code

Leading Edge Web Development With ASP.NET MVC (Source Code)


February 2010 - Windows Azure and SQL Azure with Eric Nelson

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Selenium Grok Talk (Slides)

Windows Azure and SQL Azure (Slides and Code)


January 2010 - Xamlathon Live '10 with Josh Twist

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Code Complete Book Review

Xamlathon Live (Slides)

Xamlathon Live (Source Code)

Meetings Downloads 2009

This section lists the links for file downloads for meetings.

December 2009 - Entity Framework 4 with Eric Nelson

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Microsoft Certification Grok Talk

Entity Framework 4 (Slides)


November 2009 - Credit Crunch Code with Gary Short

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

The Art Of Unit Testing - Book Review

Credit Crunch Code (Slides)


October 2009 - Aspect Oriented Programming with Steve Strong

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Aspect Oriented Programming (Slides)

Aspect Oriented Programming (Code) 


September 2009 - Test Driven Development with Stephen Oakman and Ronnie Barker

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Balsamiq Mockups (Grok Talk Slides)

Test Driven Development (Slides and Source Code)


July 2009 - Windows 7 Special with James O'Neill

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Windows 7 (Slides) 


June Extra 2009 - Rethinking Object Orientation with Kathleen Dollard

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Data Protection Act Micropresentation

Rethinking Object Orientation


June 2009 - What's New In ASP.NET 4 with Dave Sussman

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Rhino Mocks Grok Talk

What's New In ASP.NET 4


May 2009 - WPF Data Binding with Josh Twist
DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides
DotNetDevNet News
Team City Grok Talk
WPF Data Binding (Slides)
WPF Data Binding (Source - The Birthday Wish List)
WPF Data Binding (Source - Kaxaml)
 


April 2009 - Windows Mobile 6 with Roger Whitehead 

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Prism Grok Talk

Windows Mobile 6


March 2009 - Windows Azure and SQL Data Services with Eric Nelson

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Advanced T4 Grok Talk

Windows Azure and SQL Data Services 


February 2009 - Windows Workflow Foundation 4 with John McLoughlin 

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

BlogEngine.NET Grok Talk (Slides)

A Lap Around Windows Workflow Foundation and What's New In Workflow Foundation 4 (Slides) 


January 2009 - .NET Parallel Extensions with Mike Taulty

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Introduction To DotNetNuke Grok Talk (Slides)

Parallel Extensions To The .NET Framework (Slides) 

Meetings Downloads 2008

December 2008 - What's New In C# 4 ? with Guy Smith-Ferrier

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

CodePlex Grok Talk (Slides)

What's New In C# 4 ? (Slides)  


November 2008 - A Developers Guide To Network Admin with Dave McMahon

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

The Need For Professional Mentoring (Slides)

Code Generation In Visual Studio Using T4 (Slides)

A Developers Guide To Network Admin (Slides) 


October 2008 - Virtualisation for developers - What, Why, Where ? with Liam Westley

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

Virtualisation for developers (Slides) 


October Extra 2008 - Producing Production Quality Software and Interaction based testing with Rhino Mocks with Oren Eini

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

jQuery Grok Talk (Slides)

jQuery Grok Talk (Source)

Producing Production Quality Software (Slides)

Interaction based testing with Rhino Mocks (Slides) 


September 2008 - How To Write Crap Code In C# and Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell with Ben Lamb

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

What Is Alt.NET ? (Slides)

Log4NET (Source)

How To Write Crap Code In C# (Slides)

Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell (Slides) 

Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell (Source) 


July 2008 - How To Give Great Presentations and Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications with Guy Smith-Ferrier

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

DotNetDevNet News

How To Give Great Presentations (slides)

How To Give Great Presentations (paper)

Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications (slides)

Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications (source code)

Source Code For .NET Internationalization book 


June 2008 - MVC, Dynamic Data and AJAX History with Mike Ormond

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Source Analysis (Grok Talk) Slides

MVC, Dynamic Data and AJAX History Slides 


May 2008 - Silverlight Unplugged 2.0 with Chris Hay

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Silverlight 2.0 Unplugged Slides


April 2008 - Basic And Advanced Design Patterns with Gary Short

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Design Patterns Slides

Design Patterns Code 


March 2008 - Community Night

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Extension Methods Will Save The World 


February 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 And The .NET Framework 3.5 with Daniel Moth

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Visual Studio 2008 And The .NET Framework 3.5

Top 10 things to know about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 


January 2008 - FinalBuilder and Test Driven Development with Craig Murphy

DotNetDevNet Introduction SlidesAutomating The Build Process With FinalBuilder 

An Introduction To Test Driven Development

Source Code 

Meetings Downloads 2007

December 2007 - XNA Xmas eXtravaganza with Pete McGann, Dave Bonner and Andy Sithers

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides


November 2007 - Entity Framework And Astoria With James Winters And Guy Smith-Ferrier

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

ADO.NET Entity Framework Slides

Astoria Slides


October 2007 - An Overview Of WPF And Silverlight With Oliver Sturm 

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

An Overview Of WPF Slides And Examples

An Overview Of Silverlight Slides And Examples


October 2007 - C#/.NET Training With David Ringsell

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

C#/.NET Training SlidesC#./NET Training Code Samples


September 2007 - Team Foundation Server With Richard Fennell

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Team Foundation Server Slides 


July 2007 - Development Tools And Development Practices With Adam Towler

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

MBUnit Grok Talk 


June 2007 - Windows Communication Foundation And Windows CardSpace With Martin Parry

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

Windows Communication Foundation Slides

CardSpace Slides 


May 2007 - Enterprise Library And The Policy Injection Application Block With Alex Homer

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides 


April 2007 - An Evening Of LINQ With Mike Taulty 

DotNetDevNet Introduction Slides

LINQ Slides

LINQ Source Code

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Developer Tools And Development Practices
Location: BlogsDotNetDevNet Meetings    
Posted by: host Monday, May 07, 2007 6:48 AM

When: Tuesday 10th July 2007, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm

Where: BAWA, Filton, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Ground floor, room 4

What: Developer Tools And Development Practices

Who: Adam Towler and members of The .NET Developer Network

Why: Because no one knows so many tools that they can't afford to know about one more and because no one has the art of software development so nailed that they can't afford to learn from their peers. Also because this is what a user group is all about - interaction, integration, discussion, debate and argument with similar-minded members of the community.

How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the July meeting

Abstract: (The evening is split in half with Developer Tools first and Developer Practices second)

1) Developer Tools

A set of 4 grok talks by DotNetDevNet members about development tools:-

  • Chris Myhill – DevExpress ASP.NET Tool
  • Will Holley – MbUnit
  • Mike Doherty – Resharper
  • Jeremy Nevill – Beyond Compare

2) Development Practices

The second half of the evening is a group discussion on development practices led by Adam Towler of Bluewire Technologies. Here's an outline of the raison d'etre:-

What defines software quality, and what does that term mean?  In this group to date we’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at the latest shiny new geek technology and tools, but how do they improve the quality of our work? What are their commercial benefits / disadvantages? Do we need to use them right or is it, in fact the case that all problems are best solved by XML until 2007, when the’re best solved by LINQ?  We all know  developers who moan the’re stuck using VB -0.5 etc (actually not sure if VB did negative floats before version 3.0) in contrast to many of us early adopters,  but what are the issues / pitfalls of early adoption? We’ll explore the range of perspectives and experiences on that in the group.

Developers complain about managers who make stupid decisions, but if developers took more ownership of the concept of quality could we manage managers better? Where do contractors fit into quality (knowledge transfer, ability to share learning points from other places, forcing you to produce maintainable code / documentation versus short termism, unmaintainable code, wtfs or motivation that is solely financial). What about testing? What is the role of developers in testing or is that something we give to the test department? How do we measure quality and / or developer performance?

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Comments (5)  
Re: Developer Tools And Development Practices    By jimmy on Friday, June 01, 2007 3:54 PM
Check if there will be whiteboard or something. We probably will need that.

Re: Developer Tools And Development Practices    By gsmithferrier on Monday, June 04, 2007 8:00 PM
Yes, I am told that room 4 does have a whiteboard. And I will take notes on my laptop as well.

Refactor! Not free at the moment...    By frickley on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:59 AM
Great meeting last night. I tried to download Refactor! from DevExpress but there is a message on the site as follows:

"Developer Express may not always make an unexpired evaluation edition of Refactor! Pro available for download, there will be times when the last evaluation version has expired and the next evaluation is not yet available. We apologize in advance if you need to evaluate Refactor!"

http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/IDETools/Refactor/Index.xml

Re: Refactor! Not free at the moment...    By dotnetnutty on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:20 AM
Try this link:

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/IDETools/RefactorASP/

Re: Developer Tools And Development Practices    By gsmithferrier on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:34 PM
I have uploaded the opening slides for yesterday:-

http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Downloads/Meetings/2007/July/DotNetDevNetJuly.pdf

Also I did a post on last night because I thought it went so well. You can read it at:-

http://www.guysmithferrier.com/details.aspx?Entry=137


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