When: Monday 12th April 2010, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm

Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Room 2q49

What: Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD: A Brave New World

Who: Jessy Liberty, Silverlight Geek, international speaker and author of many books (you probably have one).

Why: Because Jesse is Microsoft US's top Silverlight Evangelist and there is no one more enthusiastic and clued up about what Silverlight is and can do. Also because this is Jesse's first ever tour of the UK and we're the very first stop! Also because this is our part of Microsoft UK's week long TechDays (#techdays) events.

How do I sign up for this meeting: Log in to the site, go to the Meetings page and on the top right hand side you will see a box "Register For A Meeting". Select the month in the drop down and then click on the Register link.

Abstract:
Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD: A Brave New World (level 300)
 
 
1.       MVVM and Silverlight to build test-driven programs
2.       Understanding Refactoring and Dependency Injection
3.       A Walk through of a non-trivial application

Bio:

Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek, is a Developer Community Program Manager for Microsoft (US). Lately he has been focused on Component-based, Test-Driven, Cross-platform line-of-business application development, and has led the development of the open source  Silverlight HyperVideo Platform. 
Liberty is the author of over two dozen books, and his blog is a required resource for Silverlight programmers. His twenty years of programming experience include stints as a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Vice President of Human-Computer Interaction at Citibank and Software Architect at PBS/Learning Link. He can be reached at [email protected].