OPENSOURCE .NET TOOLS CRASH COURSE

his 3-day crash course gives an overview of the most popular opensource .NET tools and introduces modern development practices that these tools promote, such as test driven development, continuous integration, dependency injection, object-relational mapping and web development using the model-view-controller pattern.

NEXT SESSION
This .NET Tools Crash course will be taught at Skills Matter - London, on August 5-7 2009 by Gojko Adzic. Gojko is also the author of this course.

COURSE DATES & REGISTRATION
For dates, more information and registration, please go here

1ST TEACH - SPECIAL OFFER
Book on or before July 5th and pay just £797.50/delegate

LEARN HOW TO:
* Implement TDD in .NET using NUnit, MBUnit, Rhino Mocks and FitNesse
* Utilise Aspect oriented programming and Dependency Injection using Castle Windsor
* Efficiently build Web applications using the MVC pattern in Monorail and utilising Monorail and Script# for Ajax and test them using Selenium Remote Console
* Manage persistence easily using ORM tools such as ActiveRecord and NHibernate
* Introduce continuous integration in your projects using CruiseControl.NET and CI Factory

PROGRAMME
Day 1:

* Introduction
* What opensource tools bring to the .NET table
* Introduction to test driven development and unit testing
* TDD in practice with Gallio and MBUnit
* Saving time and effort in TDD with mocking
* Mocking in practice with Rhino Mocks
* Introduction to acceptance testing
* Acceptance testing in practice with FitNesse.NET
* Q&A and discussion

Day 2:

* Introduction to dependency injection
* Dependency injection in practice with Castle Windsor
* Automocking to help unit tests
* Introduction to the MVC pattern
* MVC in practice with Castle Monorail
* Monorail Ajax support
* Managing complex javascript code with Script#
* Testing web applications with Selenium RC .NET
* Q&A and discussion

Day 3:

* Introduction to ORM
* ORM in practice with ActiveRecord
* Advanced ORM with NHibernate: HQL, Criterion and accessing stored procedures
* Introduction to asynchronous systems
* Asynchronous workflows in practice with NServiceBus
* Introduction to continous integration and automated builds
* Building and packaging with NAnt
* Continous integration in practice with CruiseControl.NET and CI Factory
* A brief overview of alternative tools
* Q&A and discussion