Pro Series - Making Classes Testable - Dependency Injection in .net/c#
By Derick Linkous
Pizza Sponsor - Apex Systems

If you are a mid to senior-level C#.NET developer who wants to make you and your team's code easier to test,  then this workshop is for you!  In this workshop, we will be discussing the concept of Dependency Injection,
and how you can apply the concept in your own code.

In this 3hr hands on .net/c# workshop, we will define Dependency Injection, then through exploring example code, will identify how the code often gets overly coupled, see what obstacles this presents to us, identify the coupling problems, decouple the code using Dependency Injection, and then watch how the newly-decoupled code becomes easily testable.
 
We will then spend the second half of the workshop doing hands on exercises and get some useful Dependency Injection experience.  Multiple exercises will be presented, with different levels of difficulty.  You are also welcome to bring your own code from home, and use the exercise time to ask questions about how you can bring Dependency Injection into your own code base(s).

Workshop Requirements:

• Must bring your own laptop & power supply
• Need Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express/Community installed

NOTE: This is not a kids or general/community workshop. It is open to
anyone, but a certain level of coding and c#/.net expertise and installed
Visual Studio IDE (coding environment) are required.

 Instructor Bio:
Born and raised in Blacksburg, Derick Linkous has been writing software professionally for over 15 years.  A Clean Code evangelist and Unit/Integration Testing advocate, Derick takes a quality-first approach to software development.  Most of his experience is in the Microsoft stack, specifically C#.NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.  When not behind a keyboard typing a unit test, he may be found pretending to be a musician, either holding an electric bass, or attempting to compose electronic music.

Event Sponsor:
Apex Systems provides organizations with scalable IT staffing solutions to address critical gaps in their current workforce and augment workforce management strategies. We specialize in providing IT professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and managed solutions to clients in Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies. We take pride in offering best-in-class customer service and unrivaled market and industry knowledge to match our clients’ needs with highly-qualified IT professionals. Our goal is to act as a business partner to our clients and help them build and maintain successful IT leadership and support departments.

Venue Sponsor Info:
This event is being held at Rackspace's Blacksburg development office in the VT CRC business park. Rackspace, the leader in Hybrid Cloud (Internet) Hosting, the Open Source OpenStack cloud technology suite and is the home of Fanatical Support.  Rackspace believes in fostering the growth of the technology communities in which they reside, openly sharing relevant tech information and encouraging others to do the same.