Pierre-Emmanuel Dautreppe

"Recently", thanks to Didier Danse, I discovered PostSharp by Gael Fraiteur : an AOP framework for .NET.
Until that I was doing some AOP emulation using ContextBoundObject, based on what I had read in the book "Applied .NET Attributes" by Jason Bock.

I will not explain here how to use PostSharp - I will do that in further posts - but more explain my love story with PostSharp. Why I started to use it in a testing context to simplify my tests and have clearer (and shorter) ones. [Plus]

I just published a second article on www.developpez.com about "Continous Integration in the Microsoft.NET World".
Here I will present this article and the full summay of these two articles.
Some of the key part of this article are about :
- Writing a basic project file using MsBuild
- How to use Properties and PropertyGroup
- How to use Items and ItemGroup
- How to execute a project file in command line
- How to use the .NET 3.5 tasks
- How to control targets
- Refactoring the project file
- Creating custom tasks
- Some information about TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Just two must-read tutorials about MsTest, Static Code Analysis, MsBuild and TfsBuild. [Plus]

I'm just back from the Tech Days 2009 that took place in Antwerpen, Belgium.
You will find here my notes about the sessions of the second day :
- Session 1 : The Daily Scrum (by Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte)
- Session 2 : ASP.NET MVC for Smart People (By Scott Galloway)
- Session 3 : Fastest to Market : RAD Web Applications with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Entity Framework (By Ingo Rammer)
- Session 4 : ASP.NET 4.0 what is coming? How do I prepare my app? (By Scott Galloway)
- Session 5 : ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (By Jurgen Postelmans)
- Session 6 : Azure - A lap around cloud-hosted Services (By Ingo Rammer)

Many things to remind !
Just a great day ! [Plus]

Back from the first day of the TechDays 2009 in Antwerpen - Belgium. You will find some notes about the different sessions I have assisted to :
- Keynote (by Hans Verbeeck, Gil Cleeren, Peter Himschoot, Katrien de Graeve and Gregory Renard) speaking of Silverlight, WPF, Surface and Cloud Computing
- Session 1 : The future of C#: a first look at C# 4.0 (by Bart De Smet)
- Session 2 : Silverlight 2 CoreCLR : Bringing the power of .NET to the net (by Andrew Pardoe)
- Session 3 : Code Contracts, Pex, CHESS, 3 tools for 1 talk (by Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux)
- Session 4 : Lean Principles, Agile Techniques, and Team System (by Joel Semeniuk)
- Session 5 : .NET Services: Infrastructure building blocks in the cloud (by Christian Weyer) [Plus]

Back from the launch day of the techdays 2009 that took place in Antwerpen, Belgium. You will find my notes about the sessions I have assisted to :
- Session 1 : Architectures: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (by Miha Kralj)
- Session 2 : Identity & Cloud Services (by Vittorio Bertocci)
- Session 3 : Software + Services: The convergence of SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0 (by Beat Schwegler)
- Session 4 : Lap around Oslo (by Shy Cohen)
- Session 5 : How IT will change in the next decade (by Miha Kralj) [Plus]