LDNUG June 2016 - Progressive.NET Special!

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To coincide with the eighth annual Progressive.NET Tutorials (https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/7235-progressive-dot-net-tutorials-2016#program) event taking place at SkillsMatter, we’re going to be hosting an evening of short talks and demos, around a theme of “zero footprint” development tools. Over the years, we’ve had a lot of really excellent talks covering languages, platforms, patterns, architectural styles – but quite often, we’ll be in the pub afterwards chatting about the talk we’ve just seen, and you’ll hear people saying “it looks really great; maybe I can try it out on my next project” or “I love the idea but I can’t see the rest of the team going for it.”

So for this meetup, we want to showcase the very best tools, utilities and ideas that you can start using right away – they won’t modify your code, they won’t break your build pipeline, they won’t interfere with what the rest of your team are doing, but they might make your day just a little bit more pleasant – and we want your help!

Come along and give us a 10-minute demo of something you think is awesome. Maybe it’s an open source tool, maybe it’s one of your company’s products, maybe it’s just something you use daily and can’t live without – but remember: zero footprint. Don’t break the build, don’t don’t move the cheese (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese).

PROGRAMME

​18:30 Hello and welcome

18:35 Vicenç Garcia-Altes: "Extracting useful information from your code repository"

18:50 Scott Cowan: "Build and deployments"

19:05 Adam Kosinski: Going interactive with Visual Studio 2015

19:20 Bart Read: Profiling .NET Apps with ANTS Profiler

19:35 BREAK ​

19:45​ ​Marco De Sanctis: Integrating Azure Search in your web application

20:00​ ​Time Machine for .NET

20:10​ ​Dylan Beattie: NDepend, NCrunch and NGrok

20:40​ Close and PRIZE DRAW

Yes, that's right - thanks to our generous supporters in the .NET community, we'll be giving away some free licenses and tickets on the night!

• 1 license for ANTS Performance Profiler (thanks Redgate!)

• 1 year of NGrok Basic Plan (thanks NGrok!)

• 1 named user license for NCrunch (thanks NCrunch!)

• 1 ticket to the Progressive.NET Tutorials (thanks SkillsMatter!)

and more giveaways to be announced on the night - so come along, learn about these wonderful tools, support the London .NET community, and you might even win something!

TALKS AND SPEAKERS

Extracting useful information from your code repository

Our code repository could tell us a lot of things about our code. Where should we focus our refactoring efforts?. Who owns each part of the project? Do we have any unexpected coupling? In this session we are going to explore how can we get all these metrics using F#.

Vicenç Garcia-Altes (https://skillsmatter.com/legacy_profile/vicenc-garcia-altes) has been developing software for more than 12 years. He currently work as a Senior Consultant at Valtech, London.

Build and Deployments

Tips to improve your builds through narrowing the scope, versioning, selective triggering and shared libraries. Make your deployments more reliable through deployment/smoke tests, blue/green deployments and consumer driven tests.

Scott Cowan is a .NET developer based in London, where he works as a Senior Consultant at Valtech.

Going Interactive with Visual Studio 2015

One of the major features of the Roslyn compiler is ability to evaluate c# code on the fly. The next big step is native implementation of REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop) in Visual Studio, in the form of C# Interactive. REPLs are widely used for prototyping, experiments or script executions, but so far they were associated with dynamic and functional languages. The Interactive window allows all that, but also brings staple VS features: IntelliSense, syntax coloring, code navigation. It offers completely new opportunities for C# development.

Adam Kosiński is a .NET developer and F# aficionado based in London. He currently works at Spotlight.

Profiling .NET Apps with ANTS Profiler

Find out how you can use Redgate's ANTS Profiler to get a complete picture of your application's performance and find bottlenecks in the code or database.

Bart Read (https://twitter.com/bart_read) is a consultant, entrepeneur, tech writer and friend of Redgate (http://www.red-gate.com/community/friends-of-rg) based in Cambridge.

Integrating Azure Search in your existing web application

Azure Search is the PaaS search engine in Microsoft Azure that can index your data and greatly enhance your users search experience: sort by relevance, language-aware indexing and facets filtering are just some of the features it provides out of the box, and that you can instantly leverage in your applications. In this session we’ll see how easy is to set it up from scratch and integrate it in your existing web site. In less than 15 minutes!

Marco De Sanctis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/desanctismarco) is a freelance solution architect who has been working with the .NET platform since its first beta. Thanks to his passion for the communities ecosystem, he’s been awarded as a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET (http://asp.net/) for the last 7 years in a row.

Time Machine for .NET

A late addition to the programme - we're delighted to have the team from TimeMachine (https://www.timemachinefor.net/) here to show us their revolutionary debugger for .NET. Time Machine for .NET records what an application does “under the hood” on each line of code and allows you to step backwards in time, which helps in finding the root causes of bugs. Finally you don’t need to restart your debugging session over and over again. Now you can trace the root cause of bugs just by stepping back in time.

N All The Things

Dylan Beattie will showcase three of the best productivity tools for developing APIs and websites using Visual Studio and .NET.

• NCrunch (http://www.ncrunch.net/) runs your unit tests in real time, as you type, giving you immediate feedback. Red/green/refactor has never been easier.

• NDepend (http://www.ndepend.com/)is the "Swiss Army Knife" for .NET developers, providing a wide range of features to analyse, visualise and understand your code base.

• NGrok (https://ngrok.com/) lets you create secure tunnels from the internet to your workstation, giving you a whole new way to test and debug APIs, web hooks and network services.

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