TickSpec is a lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework. You describe behaviour in plain text using the Gherkin business language, i.e. given, when, then. It is then easy to execute the behaviour against matching F# tick methods (let “tick method“ () = true) or attributed C# or F# methods.

More than 250,000 Android devices are activated each day and over 100,000 applications are available for download via the Android Marketplace. With the recent announcement of the MonoDroid project by Novell, .Net developers now have the ability to target this mobile platform using C# and the core .Net APIs. This presentation introduces developers to the Android platform and show how MonoDroid enables .Net developers to develop for the platform.

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This video takes a look at how to handle tombstoning (when your application is not longer in focus, but is not shut down yet) in your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application. When building out a WP7 application it is critical that your application can handle Tombstoning and rebuild itself as needed. This is to allow the user to have their work flow interrupted by an action, but still gives them the ability to back into your app and resume from there last usage point. In fact if you fail to …

This video walks you through the process of configuring Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 on Windows 7

In the world of agile programming techniques, one of your best tools is design patterns. This session provides practical examples and implementation of design patterns in .NET. Familiarizing yourself with patterns such as Model–View–Controller, Observer, Abstract and Concrete Factories, and concepts such as programming to an interface rather than an implementation will help you build applications quickly that can easily adapt to your customer’s changing needs.
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