ALT.NET represents a community of thought leaders with a call to action of improving the status quo of how software is developed in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. ALT.NET encourages very strict adherence to agile practices such as BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and tools that map to those practices fairly closely. …
Take a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and learn how you can get involved in shaping ASP.NET future. This talk focuses on the next release of ASP.NET including Web Forms and MVC. Do you love web forms? See how you can taking control of your control IDs, learn …
In this episode we are going to take a look at a refactoring technique outlined in detail in working effectively with legacy code. We will walk though this technique and take a look at how it can help you to create better and more maintainable code. http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/134
The domain model is a domain experts view on their reality. But what happens when there are different domain experts with different, very real, views on the reality? Is a product always a product and how do I enforce my aggregate boundaries for the all-mighty model? Is my abstraction high …
Interview with Eric Nelson who was speaking at DevWeek 2009 in London in March. He touches on which Microsoft ORM is strategic, runtime vs design time of V1, Entity Framework is the Marmite of ORMs, alternative design surfaces, what to expect from V2 and more.
This in depth session will penetrate the advantage of using dynamically created code in your applications. Yesterday we coded the creation of object instances our selves in each location that we needed them with strong references between our code modules. Maintenance in this code base was a nightmare and modular …