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DC ALT.NET 9/30/2010 - The Current State of Package Management in .NET

Thursday, September 30, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Alexandria, VA

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The Current State of Package Management in .NET

ASP.NET package management has been under the microscope in recent years with Ruby Gems flourishing in the Ruby community.  While there does not seem to be a clear leader in the .NET world, there are a few solutions gaining momentum.  We will discuss the two most notable .NET package managers: 

  • Nu 
  • OpenWrap

Both open source options are in early stages of development, but offer promising solutions to managing packages in .NET development.  We will discuss and experiment with both tools, as well as briefly review how Ruby Gems handles packaging for the Ruby language.

About Our Speaker

Danny Douglass has over 7 years of experience as a web applications developer, focusing on Microsoft .NET technologies beginning with the 1.1 version of the .NET framework.  He currently works as a senior applications developer for NRECA in Arlington, VA.  He previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and other agencies/associations in the DC area.  He resides in Alexandria, VA with his fiancee and 2 dogs.

 

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The Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

Thursday, September 30, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)


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Who We Are

DC ALT.NET is a DC/Baltimore metro area user group associated with the wider "ALT.NET community.

What is ALT.NET?
At it's purest, the driving force behind the ALT.NET developer community may be described simply as "The pursuit of happiness." While Microsoft has provided developers with a powerful framework and a bunch of very good tools and packages to build upon, it often feels like too much effort was put into a "one-size-fits-all" design philosophy that can make it complex, tedious, or just plain impossible to do things that don't follow Microsoft's prescribed approach.

With other development platforms and languages offering so much choice (Java and it's many quality open source offerings) and elegance (Ruby on Rails with its "beautiful" code and "convention over configuration" philosophy), .NET developers longed to craft cleaner, more elegant solutions without having to leave a framework that has so much to offer.

ALT.NET is about following your own beliefs about application design, and using the .NET platform to support your ideas, rather than retro-fitting your ideas to the platform. While none of these things is a requirement to "being ALT.NET," the community openly embraces:

    * Agile, Scrum, XP
    * Open Source Packages and Frameworks
    * Test Driven Development/Design
    * Behavior Driven Development/Design
    * Domain Driven Development/Design


ALT.NET is not about spurning Microsoft's platform and tools - it is about being able to decide when it makes sense to use them, having control over how they are used, and having the option to go in another direction without having to abandon the framework.