Do you write code as part of a team? Developing enterprise-level applications requires more upfront planning and more procedures, not only to coordinate the larger team doing the development, but to make sure the application is maintainable and deployable. Come to this session to pick up some tips on how to structure your development environment. We will talk about how to best structure a team development environment, manage dependencies, create a repeatable build process and do basic smoke/unit testing. We will wrap up with a brief preview of what is coming in Visual Studio Team System.
Tonights speaker is Chris Kinsman, Vergent technologies
Chris Kinsman is the founder of Vergent Software and formerly the VP of Technology for DevX.com, a web site that provides information for developers. He has extensive experience with .NET, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. Chris is the author of "Visual Basic.NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML" and "C# Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML". Chris has spoken at a variety of conferences including VSLive and Microsoft TechEd, and is the track chair for ASPLive.
I have also heard a rumor that the 9guy might be making his NYC debus at this evenings meeting, see you there...