VS Live / Tulsa TechFest Material

I just wrapped up my session on Test-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC.  The audience was a bit thin, but the people who were there seemed genuinely interested in both ASP.NET MVC and Test Driven Development.

I had a little hiccup during the demo, so I had to comment out my Windsor code & just revert to poor man's dependency injection!  What's weird is that this worked 20 minutes before the demo, but whatever.

Another thing to note is that I'm now a BDD convert, so my tests changed a bit from the material that was delivered on DVD over a month ago.  The example I did today, with BDD style tests & some ShouldBe extension methods is available here:

VS Live Presentation Material

I also ended up winning a little bit of money yesterday, which was awesome!  While playing nickel slots and talking on the phone to my wife, I accidentally pressed the cash out button when I only had $0.10 left :)  Here's a stellar picture showing my excitement:

las-vegas-winnings

Tulsa TechFest

Also, last week I gave two presentations in Tulsa:

  • Become a .NET Jedi with ReSharper
  • Build a blog with ASP.NET MVC

The audiences for both talks were very engaged, and I think they both went really well.  I did leave Tulsa wondering, however, what's with all the VB developers!  (I kid, I kid!)

The material for the blog example is available here:

Tulsa TechFest Presentation Material

If you want to browse the source for either of these talks, check out my google code repository (they'll be posted soon).

Thanks to those who attended my talks & game me valuable feedback.  I'm always looking to improve my presentation skills.

 

What's next for me?  I'll be speaking at the Innotech in Oklahoma City on November 6th, on the same subject.

#1 Lilly avatar
Lilly
11.16.2008
3:55 PM

Hello Ben,

I attended your session at the VS Live Las Vegas, and I've downloaded all the version you have put out for the sample code. However, I haven't been able to get it to run successfully. What should show up? Currently, this is the error I'm getting: System.ExecutionEngineException was unhandled

Message="Exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' was thrown."

InnerException:

vslive las vegas 2008\VSLiveBlog\VSLiveBlog.Web\Default.aspx.cs

I'd appreciate if you could provide additional information, to help resolve this error.

Thanks,

Lilly


#2 benscheirman avatar
benscheirman
11.16.2008
3:58 PM

Hi Lilly, can you provide the inner exception you're getting? That one doesn't tell me much.

I'll download the posted code on a fresh machine and see if I get the same error.


#3 benscheirman avatar
benscheirman
11.16.2008
9:33 PM

Ah, I see what happened. It looks like the references were all messed up. Check each project in Visual Studio and make sure that none of the references have a yellow warning sign next to them.

If so, remove them & re-add them from the 3rdPartyAssemblies folder.

Let me know if that doesn't work for you.