Where: Stanley Milner Library, Edmonton Room
When: Thursday, April 29th doors opening at 5:30pm, event starts at 6:00pm

Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and IntelliTrace

Habib Heydarian is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in the Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. While not at work, Habib spends his time writing code for robots (or anything else for that matter), reading books, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favourite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label, “RUNTIME”.

Where: Stanley Milner Library, Edmonton Room
When: Wednesday December 2nd doors opening at 5:30pm, event starts at 6:00pm

After the success of our first dojo style event at Edmug, we're going to do another with the same format. This time we'll be offering hands on, practical experience in Test Driven Design (TDD).

I know that you’re going to suggest that the name of the event is misleading when you see the date below, but trust us...it is the October event.

Date: November 4^th

Time: 5:30pm doors open, 6:00pm event starts

Location: Edmonton Room in the Stanley Milner Library

Event Title: Practical Automated Testing Dojo

As we may have eluded to in recent newsletters, we’re going to try some new style events for this year’s schedule.  In the past the lecture presentations that we’ve held have provided great content in an easily accessible format.  They also seem to have left attendees wanting for more practical and hands on exposure to the technology being discussed.  This event will be the first of those new formats that will allow you to get started with that practical experience while still receiving some guidance.

How the Dojo event will work:

At the start of the meeting (6pm in this case) we will provide a brief introduction talk on Automated Testing.  This will take up no more than 15-30 minutes and is not intended to be an in depth review of the practices involved.

After the introduction a number of volunteers who are well versed in Automated Testing will form breakout teams which attendees will be free to choose from.  Those teams will spend the majority of the remaining event time (1.5hrs plus) working through real world examples of how to write automated tests using different tools and different styles.  While there will be one person who can provide guidance, we are encouraging all attendees to spend time pair programming, watching and engaging in questions with the entire group.  Attendees should also feel free to move from one team to another as the content, styles and experiences may be different.

What, you ask, will the attendee be responsible for?  Well, our hope is that you will feel inclined to bring questions about Automated Testing and a desire to interact and learn with and from the rest of the community.  If you can, please bring your own laptop.  There will be some laptops available but they will be used in pair (or more) programming scenarios only. We will be providing a sample code base that needs many different kinds of tests added to it.  If you want the code at the time of the event, please bring a USB drive.  For those that don’t we will provide the code for download from the Edmug website after the event.

As this is our first event of this style, we are going to treat it as a learning experience and apply those lessons to the coming events.  As always, we encourage you to provide us with any feedback that you can at info@edmug.net

We're a little late putting this up, but the July meeting will happen on the 22nd (a Wednesday this time) at the Milner Public Library.  Drop by the Edmonton room between 5:30 and 6:00 that night and sit in on a Q & A panel featuring James Kovacs, Dave Woods, Tom Opgenorth and Donald Belcham.  Bring any questions that you have and they'll do their best to try to answer them for you.