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Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs? Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other? Is it difficult to determine which tests are most important to run after you produce a new build? If so, then this session is for you! Software testing is perhaps the #1 area of investment for the application lifecycle management capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.

During this session we explore the new software testing architecture offered by Visual Studio 2010. We also examine the various testing roles played by members of the development and testing teams and show how they will interact ...

Phil Haack is a megalomaniacal software developer with delusions of... well, uh, just delusions. As a code junkie, he not only enjoys writing software, but writing about software on his blog,http://haacked.com/

By day, he is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. By night he changes diapers while leading the Subtext Project, an Open Source blog engine. And no, they are not his own diapers.

The topic for July will be MVC 2. So far we've considered focusing on security and localization. Get your questions ready and send us your suggestions for focus areas for the ...

Jimmy Schementi bridges the gap between open-source programming languages and the .NET platform; working on IronRuby, IronPython, and the Dynamic Language Runtime. Working at Microsoft, he runs the IronRuby project (http://ironruby.net/), and also helps foster the dynamic language ecosystem on .NET's web-platform, like making Ruby on Rails deployable on Windows, and DLR-based languages run in Silverlight. He enjoys black screens, keyboard-only input, and modest user interfaces. When he grows up he wishes to be an if-statement: those things are decisive. Interested? Read more on http://jimmy.schementi.com/, and come to this talk.

Tiberiu will present two topics during this meeting:

Practical Parallel Programming
After more than 40 years Moore's law is still going strong, and it looks like it will continue to do so for at least ten more years. The problem we face now is that the speed of the processors is not physically possible to increase anymore, so instead the hardware manufacturers decided to give us more processors on the same chip. How this affect us as programmers? The free performance lunch is over, unless we change the way we think and program our applications, and the Question is not ...

We are excited to have Chris Pendleton speak about Bing Maps and Silverlight this month. Chris is the Bing Maps Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Chris has been with Microsoft for 7 years and has been in the location-based services and GIS industry for over 10 years. Chris specializes in all things Bing Maps and Microsoft geospatial including, but not limited to technological deep dives, web and mobile application architecture and development, licensing arrangements and 3rd party revenue opportunities. Chris has a long history of application development, architecture, consulting and deployment of large scale web-based applications, especially those using geospatial intelligence. ...

Join us for a presentation by Brad Wilson covering MVC 2. Brad would like to create a session focused on the topics you are most interested in, so send us your suggestions!

Speaker: Nathan Halstead

Speaker:  Reed Copsey, Jr.

Speaker:  Boris Scholl
Boris is a Program Manager with the Visual Studio for BizApps team. Besides taking care of the Visual Studio community he is focusing on LOB integration with SharePoint and is working on the next generation of SharePoint tooling. Prior joining Visual Studio he was working as a Technical Product Manager for Office Server building white papers for architectural guidance and LOB integration.

Boris started his Microsoft career working as an Application Development Consultant for portals back in 1999. He then was called into the World Wide IW Centre of Excellence working on large cross border SharePoint and ...