CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!!!
Improving Your ASP.NET Application's Performance, and Creating Web UI Unit Tests.
Join us on February 9th for two sessions as David Hoerster first describes how you can quickly create web UI unit tests using Visual Studio 2010's new CodedUI Tests feature. Afterwards, we'll talk about how to improve the overall performance of your ASP.NET web sites by going over a few tips and tricks. This is a session that will be beneficial to developers, testers and architects alike!
Registration Information: | Email: | events@pghtech.org | | Phone: | 412-918-4229 | | Web: | PGHDOTNET's New Registration Link |
| 30 Isabella St., Second Floor
Alcoa Business Services Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
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Session 1: Creating Automated Web Unit Tests Using Visual Studio 2010's Coded UI Tests
Quickly create UI unit tests using Visual Studio 2010's new feature called CodedUI Tests. They're very easy to create, give the developer/tester a lot of control, and allow you to data drive your tests. This feature is great for developers and testers alike.
Session 2: Improving the Performance of Your ASP.NET Web Sites
There's a lot of tips and tricks to improve the performance of your web sites, and we'll take a tour of a few of them in this session. We'll look at: CSS Sprites, Using WCF Services for AJAX Calls, Tools for Minifying Your JavaScript and CSS Files (and how to integrate them into a build tool), and a few more!
David Hoerster
David Hoerster, who has been working with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas, is Resources Global Professional's Director of Technology for the policyIQ product group in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he worked for CIBER as their Microsoft Practice Director since 2003. Prior to that, David has worked for several software product development companies in the role of software engineer and architect and has over 15 years of industry experience. David is also owner of AgileWays, a technology services firm specializing in providing software architecture, design and development solutions based upon Microsoft technologies. David is the Pennsylvania INETA Membership Mentor, the co-chair of the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group (PGHDOTNET) and is also a frequent speaker at Pittsburgh's user group and code camp events. As co-chair of PGHDOTNET, David's responsibilities include recruiting new members to the group, helping with the logistics of the events, and also encouraging community participation by recruiting members to speak at the regular meetings. For Pittsburgh's Code Camp events, David has been a track coordinator where he was responsible for recruiting speakers, determining appropriate track topics, helping with planning and logistics and assisting with the overall planning of the event. He has also been a speaker at several Philadelphia's Code Camps, where his presentations have included topics on Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).