| January 19 |
Cool Tools, New Releases, MVP Birds of a Feather |
Wednesday
Malvern, PA |
Our monthly meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Wednesday, January 19 from 5:30-8:30. Refreshments are provided courtesy of philly.NET.
We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site and follow other local user groups on our community calendar. |
| 5:30 |
John Petersen, LiquidHub Cool Tools: MSpec & Fluent |
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MSpec (Machine Specifications.NET) is a testing library that is based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) techniques. The idea behind BDD is that given a certain context, because of given scenario, the software should work a certain way. Through better readability, specifications set forth by business stake holders and other concerned parties, can be directly translated into tests. MSpec is a .NET testing library that supports BDD-style tests.
Fluent Validation for .NET is a fluent-based library that allows us to separate the validation rules from our domain models. Because of this separation, we can achieve testability and reuse. Through it's fluent interface, the validation rules become more readable. |
| 6:15 Break |
Meet your peers. Refreshments and drinks courtesy of philly.NET. |
| 6:25 Q&A |
Bill Wolff, philly.net leader, ask questions, get answers from your peers! |
| 6:35 Quick Tip |
Bill Wolff, LiquidHub & Rob Keiser, Row-5 New Web Releases |
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Scott Gu announced the release of several products on January 13:
- ASP.NET MVC 3
- NuGet
- IIS Express 7.5
- SQL Server Compact Edition 4
- Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0
- Orchard 1.0
- WebMatrix 1.0
The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET 4 and VS 2010 release, and add a ton of additional value to ASP.NET (both Web Forms and MVC) and the Microsoft Web Server stack. |
| 7:00 |
Panel of local MVPs Birds of a Feather |
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We are having a lengthy Q&A with area Most Valuable Professionals. Please enter a question for the group here: We need your input!
Members with selected questions are eligible to win an XBOX with Kinect! |
| 8:30 Closing & Raffle! |
Books, software, and other goodies! |