CodeCampSA 2009 – Day 1

Presentation notes

David Gardiner – Generating Unit Tests with Pex

• Fantastic
• Inspirational
• I wish I could present like this guy
• :-)

Anthony Borten – TFS 2010

• Always try to install TFS, SharePoint and Build on separate servers if possible
• Make sure you launch config tool immediately from the installer
• Note the 'test' buttons to check your server names
• Team Foundation Administration Console
• Branching – better in 2010
• Team Build
  • Build controller
  • Build agent
  • Gated checkins

Allan Baird – UniSA

• Industry partnerships – opportunities to have students work for 6 or 12 month placements.

Rob Farley – The problem with BEGIN and END in T-SQL functions

• Useful tool - "fences" – hides desktop icons
• Generally modularisation in T-SQL is good
• Funny joke about COUNT(dracula)
• Compare two queries – one using a user-defined function, the other just has SQL
  • function query appears to run faster according to query plans
  • BUT, using SQL Profiler, it is actually much less efficient
  • SQL sees BEGIN/END and can't inline the function

Liam McLennan – MVC is better than WebForms

• WebForms is to imperial as MVC is to metric

Tatham Oddie – WebForms are better than MVC

• Used WebForms for graysonline
• Used application/xml mimetype to validate XHTML content with Firefox during testing
• XHTML 1.1 templates for Visual Studio
• Tool to convert bad HTML to valid XHTML
• .NET 4.0 – Can disable page-level ViewState, but enable it on specific controls

Scott Barnes – Silverlight

• Was a Flash developer before joining Microsoft
• 400 million downloads of Silverlight
• Biggest competitor - HTML+JS!

Anthony Borton – VSTS 2010

• Eliminating no-repro bugs
• Virtual Lab Management
• Test Case Management
  • Record against real application
  • Fast forward through test steps
• Microsoft Test and Lab Manager
• Replay – re-run test including launching application under test
• Coded UI Test
  • Test builder – records UI actions

Paul Turner – SharePoint branding tips and tricks

• Start with minimal master page
• Enable debugging
• Position tool pane
• Standard delegates (My Site etc)
• Site actions
• Digest (MAC)
• Understand CSS
  • Add custom CSS with CssRegistration
• Don't put JS in master page
• Async JS with defer