PDC Birds-of-a-Feather

Announcing another timely and exciting BOF discussion for PDC09. Make plans to join the conversation! And don’t forget to checkout the roll-up of all BOF sessions that we’ve announced to date.

Behavior-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development: What’s What?

Automated testing is a hot item these days and Microsoft is jumping on board with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010. Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development both try to significantly improve the quality of both the design and the product-under-development itself. What is TDD and how do you start? What does BDD add and when should you use them? What are best practices and common pitfalls? Join this session and share your experiences to give others a jumpstart.

Host: Dennis Doomen

The BOF Team is please to announce the addition of the following session:

Should I Use Silverlight, MVC, or Web Forms for Web User Interface Development?

When ASP.NET was released Web Forms was the only choice for web user interface development. As .NET has evolved there are now several powerful technologies including Web Forms, Silverlight, and ASP.NET MVC which overlap making it challenging to determine the right combination for the best solution. You also have to consider WCF, AJAX, and potentially jQuery. Come join your colleagues to     share experiences on how to use each of these technologies to meet your user interface needs and create a powerful solution.

Co-Hosts: Ben Hoetling (Colorado Springs, CO) http://www.benhblog.com and Todd Anglin (The Woodlands, TX) http://telerikwatch.com

For more sessions, go to the latest list of BOF sessions for PDC09.

We’re pleased to announce the first of three special lunchtime Birds-of-a-Feather sessions we’re calling the BOF @Lunch Sessions. In addition to getting you excited to attend the BOFs, we hope you’ll be inspired to propose a BOF session of your own. More session announcements shortly.

For the BOF Team,
Stuart

BOF @Lunch: ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches

Wed 11/18 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Have you written a web application using the ASP.NET MVC framework based on the model-view-controller pattern yet? Are you thinking about it, but not sure if it’s the right choice? If you have worked with ASP.NET MVC you know it requires you to think quite differently about the architecture of a web site.

What worked? What hurt? How did you compensate? What was valuable? Did you use the source code? Practice TDD? Will you use MVC again?

Come share your real-world experiences — your stories from the trenches — and compare notes with others who’ve been there.