Gojko Adzic

The next Opensource .NET “in-the-brain” session at Skills Matter will take place on March 23rd. As announced during the Opensource .NET Exchange, we are trying to get more people from the community involved to present. The session on the 23rd will be devoted to Mocking, and we’ll have two talks.

Abid Quereshi: Introduction to Moq

Pronounced “Mock-You”, Moq is a simple yet powerful .NET Mocking library. Moq makes use of .NET lambda expressions, reducing the amount of test code you will need to write. This presentation will demonstrate Moq and highlight some main differences with other mock object frameworks.

Mike Hadlow: Rhino Mocks and Automocking

In this session, Mike Hadlow gives a quick overview of Rhino Mocks, a popular .NET mock objects library and the new Arrange, Act, Assert syntax provided by that library. He also demonstrates Automocking, a combination of mock objects and dependency injection which helps to write unit tests more efficiently.

The event is free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. Sign up on the Skills Matter web site.

I got a chance to offer blog readers a massive discount on the May .NET workshops in London. If you were thinking of signing up, quote SM1368-622459-33L in the promo code field which allows you to book the workshops for £350 (full ticket price is £1000). The registration link is https://skillsmatter.com/register-online/conf/280/.

Wendy from Skills Matter said that the offer is only valid until February 28th, and tickets are going fast, so if you were thinking of attending the workshops, book now.

If you are in London on Thursday and are not yet registered for the opensource .net exchange, here’s what you’ll miss:

• Dylan Beattie: JQuery and ASP.NET MVC
• David Ross: Aspect oriented programming with PostSharp
• Sebastien Lambla: Fluent NHibernate
• David de Florinier: ActiveMQ and NMS
• Mike Hadlow: Implementing the repository pattern
• Russ Miles: Spring .NET best practices

We start at 6:30 PM in the Crypt on Clarkenwell (near the Farringdon tube station). We have about 200 people registered so far, but as we have a bigger venue this time there are still open places. The mini-conference is free, but you do have to register upfront. For more details and to register, see:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange

Here’s the final programme for the OpenSource .NET Exchange on 22/Jan in London:

• Dylan Beattie : JQuery
• David Ross: PostSharp
• Sebastien Lambla: Fluent NHibernate
• David de Florinier: ActiveMQ and NMS
• Mike Hadlow: Implementing the Repository pattern
• Russ Miles: Spring .NET best practices

After the talks, we are planning to have a discussion panel to compare Castle and Spring.NET and work out when to use what.

We have a larger venue this time, and free beer and pizza is the perfect excuse to come.

For full details and to sign up, see the event page on skillsmatter.com.

It was really great to talk about Castle Windsor today in front of a full room. Thanks very much to all of you who showed up and especially thanks to Mike Hadlow for participating in this event. Mike will probably post his source code and powerpoint slides on his site soon. Here are the links and the source code from my examples:

• source code
• Castle project main web site
• Automocking container
• Method validator facility

I also mentioned the new UK .NET Events site, where you’ll find a calendar of .NET-related events.