Boulder Visual Studio .NET User Group - Monthly Presentation for May

Amadeus Consutling Group, Inc.
4735 Walnut ST
Boulder, CO 80301

	Rapidigm's mission is to help our clients manage change and transform their businesses through high-quality, cost-effective business information solutions. We provide comprehensive, web-enabled, end-to-end services from within our many service offerings.
	Amadeus Consulting is a custom software development company dedicated to creating intelligent technology solutions with successful business results. They exceed clients' expectations by translating critical business challenges into high-performance software.
	Our web site is hosted by DotNetPark (ASP.NET & MS SQL Web Hosting) for less than $6 / month. We have been impressed by the wide range of services offered for the .NET developer, the reliability of the email service, the friendly and technical customer service and best of all, the low price.
	INETA provides support for all user group related needs. Receive discounts on books, software, training, and other .NET-related products and services.

Meeting Agenda:
5:30	Welcome time and opening remarks
5:45	Keynote presentation
6:00	Break / food / networking
6:15	Keynote presentation
7:30	Closing remarks

Meeting Links:
•	Boulder Visual Studio User Group
•	Meeting Map
Sponsors:
•	Rapidigm, Inc.
•	Amadeus Consulting
•	DotNetPark
•	International .NET Association

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Text Box: The Microsoft .Net Compact Framework enables developers to quickly build and deploy enterprise mobile solutions with a level of effectiveness unprecedented in the mobile development space.
This session is intended for the developer who is now using or well-into learning the Compact Framework and is interested in adopting more effective ways to achieve code reuse, runtime performance, data persistence, data synchronization, communications, and large-scale deployment. Through coding walkthroughs and demos of real-world CF applications, participants will see the value in applying the design patterns, architectural strategies, and coding techniques presented in this session.

Text Box: Unit testing represents a very important trend in producing higher quality applications at lower cost. You’ll learn the distinction between unit testing and regression testing and how to address the two major problems that plague unit testing – how tedious they are to write, and managing scope. Declarative unit testing incorporates test definitions as part of each method’s source code so it becomes an accessible part of your application metadata. Test declarations can be any combination of explicit test declarations and implicit tests based on declared boundary definitions. It becomes even easier to integrate test-driven development because tests are easy to write as the first step in method creation. And if you use boundary declarations, you can also automate trace code creation. Both implicit and explicit test declarations generate code that integrates with test tools like NUnit, and lets you include testing information in your documentation. Declarative unit testing works alongside more complex handcrafted tests, and allow you to focus your energy where it’s needed – defining tests, writing your application code, and creating more complex handcrafted tests.

Door Prizes:
From Lalit Punjabi of Rapidigm
•	$25 Gift Certificate to BestBuy
•	$25 Gift Certificate to BestBuy
•	Pizzas for the networking break
From Microsoft, Rocky Mountain
•	Several selected developer Microsoft Press books!
From 2005 International DB2 User Group North America Conference
•	128 MB Flash drive
From Microsoft Mindshare
•	Halo: Combat Evolved for Windows