When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP ***UPDATE*** - Kent Tegels will not be able to make it to this meeting, we have a last minute replacement, see below. Topic: Testing with Mocks : Test this, test that, no problem. But what about when we need...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Taking control of SQL Server with .NET Do you ever wish you could add some custom code in to your SQL Query but find T-SQL too limiting to get the job done? Do you want the group_concat function from...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Powershell For Developers PowerShell has been positioned primarily as a tool for administrators, but it should also be in every developer's toolbelt. PowerShell can be considered .NET's first scripting...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: First Look at ASP.NET 4.0 Get a first a look at the 4.0 feature set from ASP.NET and learn what’s new or improved in ASP.NET 4. This talk will highlight ASP.NET 4 in the areas of Web Forms, MVC...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Advanced Debugging with Visual Studio 2008 The system’s down, things are broken, what do you do? Before they panic you whip out your trusty Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 instance and attach to the...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Getting Started with Behavior-Driven Development. We'll take a look at what Behavior-Driven is, what makes it different from Test-Driven Development and what is the same. We'll talk about why BDD came...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: .NET Framework 4.0 Overview With every successful release of the .NET Framework, more features and changes are introduced into our development lives. But what is being done in the .Net Framework 4.0 that...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Dependency Inversion Learn about how the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers help you get your system under test more effectively and how it...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: ASP.NET MVC Overview This session will introduce attendees to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework. It will compare MVC to existing ASP.NET Web Forms and show the basics of creating an ASP.NET MVC application...

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When: 6:00 PM. Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Team Foundation Server - What you as developers need to know. Speaker Bio: Kirstin Juhl is software developer and consultant for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied...

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