Microsoft DevDays in Minsk. Introduction

Microsoft DevDays is one of the largest developer conferences in Europe. It is visited by thousands of developers and becomes more popular each year. Today it was held in Minsk. There were reported several topics naturally related to Microsoft solutions:

• Usage of SilverLight 2;
• Introduction to Windows 7 for developers;
• Development of applications using Live Services;
• Visual Studio Team System 2010: first view.

High qualified specialists announced their products and answered our questions. It is very pleasant that such conferences become a good tradition. Thank to Microsoft for the provided information and for sure, thanks to us, developers, their products become even more popular, and customers will have no doubts in a platform choice.

More details about conference topics in next posts…

The peculiarities of .NET and C# programming language

Visualstudio2008 and language C# on the .NET platform is often used for software development. The .NET absorbed all advantages that were available in the market of software development. The .Net platform uses the opportunities of XML and Web in full. It can be called one of the best platforms for development, especially when web-services are concerned.

The sight into web development is completely revised in .NET programming, powerful and suitable in use is given to our attention technology of ASP.NET, that noticeably avoids developments of rivals. To write code on ASP.NET is simpler , much quicker, and decision is got excellent on productivity.

C# is an object oriented language of programming for the .NET platform. It was developed by a group of developers under the aegis of Microsoft Research (SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE at the Microsoft company).

Using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC is an upcoming framework that enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET Framework. ASP.NET MVC is not a replacement for ASP.NET Web Forms. It is an alternative that offers the following benefits:
• Testability – support for Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Clear separation of concerns
• Fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript
• Intuitive REST URLs

The flexibility and power of ASP.NET MVC allows for developers to use libraries other than those include in the box. And the popular JavaScript framework, jQuery, is no exception.

The popularity of jQuery as an easy-to-use JavaScript library used from any web development platform makes the ability to be used with the ASP.NET MVC Framework especially attractive. One of the reasons on which developers can use libraries like jQuery is designed-in extensibility of ASP.NET MVC.
And in the end great news for web developers: Microsoft announces about distributing jQuery with Visual Studio. It will help to build easier rich internet applications (RIAs) for Microsoft’s .NET Framework with Visual Studio.

Using .NET for Software Testing Automation

Nowadays software testing is a rapidly growing up sphere. And software testing engineers may be found employed in different sectors. Lots of methodologies are widely known:
-Agile testing;
-Extreme testing;
-Scrum testing;
-White Box testing;
-Traditional Black Box testing and others.

The Black Box testing is the most popular and called for in many companies around the world. For years experts had been developing different costly commercial tools to lessen testing efforts and to increase the efficiency and quality of software testing, but lots of them were nonviable in practice. Later in 2001, some testing experts offered to create the software utilities for their manual-and tool-automated testing efforts.

.NET programming

Microsoft.NET – is a concept of fast and qualitative program development. The .NET concept is created according to the new world situation which requires more high-quality and secure programs.

You need to setup .NET Framework Redistributable Package for executing the .NET program. It has only 25MB and you can download it from www.microsoft.com site. Usually .NET applications are small programs (.exe or .dll).

But in future .NET will be in all computers all over the world. The .NET will change web-sites. It will be an application which can be accessed via any device by the net.

You need Visual Studio for .net applications, web-applications, web-services development. Also you need some components from .NET Framework SDK. You can see the .NET applications code using C# or Delphi with the help of Reflector for the .NET tool. You can create a .NET program using any language which has a compiler. It’s possible to create your own compiler and add it to Visual Studio. Such compilers exist now: The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework, Delphi for .NET compiler and others.

.NET applications simplify the System Administrators’ life. They are small and secure and don’t break servers. They control a computer memory and access failures.

Microsoft .Net Framework

.Net platform, also known as Microsoft .Net Framework is a solution for developing software available on different operating systems. It provides innumerable opportunities for miscellaneous services and systems to communicate, thus allowing .Net programmers to develop powerful applications.

It has a huge library, called Base Class Library, of different solutions for solving various programming solutions. This library covers a great range of developer’s needs in such areas as user interface, data access, connectivity of databases, cryptography, numeric algorithms and network communications. It also includes a virtual machine capable of executing applications written on this platform.

The main focus of Microsoft .Net framework is on web services, which allow various software to interact with other software by means of Internet technologies. .Net Platform is the best solution for developing new windows-based, web-based applications, web services and mobile applications for Windows platform.

.Net platform

You cannot decide on what platform to use to develop your web application?

The solution is to use .Net platform. At this moment, .Net platform is the most powerful software development platform. It allows web developers to select programming language, which is used for development, without any restrictions.

.Net class library represents a set of built-in types for solving tasks of different levels. It also gives a possibility to use a single platform for developing Windows and Web applications and building scalable enterprise-level applications with minimal efforts.