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General Meeting

Location: Auditorium, Library 2nd Floor
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Topic: A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System
Barry Gervin, ObjectSharp Consulting
www.objectsharp.com

The announced Visual Studio Team System promises to raise the level of discipline in the way we develop software today. Firstly, a new diagramming capability is being added to allow for class diagrams and "service-oriented" design diagrams for both contract design and logical deployment. New features including support for test driven development and refactoring will increase developer productivity and discipline.

Speaking of testing there is a new "NUnit-style" framework that also support UI testing and Load testing. A new build environment called MSBuild combined with the new source control repository and its support for static code analysis and code coverage policies makes for a well rounded, full life cycle IDE.

Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp. He is a technical leader with over 15 years experience helping development teams design and build large software projects. Barry is skilled in the Architecture, Design and Development of Databases and Distributed Systems. Barry is also a MSDN Regional Director.


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