Room: Rain Dance - 4th Floor

We start at 9:00 am and will finish at 5:00 pm

Course Outline:

This workshop explains how to partitions into layers the concerns of the application using recognized practices to reduce coupling and to increase testability. Using a real case study, students will learn how to implement a layered architecture using C# and Microsoft .NET framework. We will teach you the best practices regarding application architecture and modularity:

• Modularity: You will learn about the four attributes of a module and how it applies to layers.
• Visible Interface: The greatest leverage in architecting is at the interfaces. Partitioning the concerns of the application requires layers with a unique role and a contract well defined. To express not only the specifications but the dynamic behavior of the contract, we will teach you how to design the “velcro”, the visible interface of a module.
• Hidden implementation: You will learn how to efficiently implement the body of the layer, the hidden part which is not visible in other layers. We will teach you how to use “Dependency Injection” and “Service Locator” as a mediator to reduce coupling with sub-layers.
• Autonomous Testability: Testability at the layer level without having to assemble the whole system is the most important attribute of a module. Using “test-driven” design techniques to express dynamic behavior of a layer, you will learn how “velcro” and “fake” implementation enable to efficiently test a module in an autonomous way (in a test bed).
• Dependency Modeling: Using the upcoming Architecture Edition of Visual Studio Team System 2010, you will learn how to build models to express dependencies between layers. Using the very new “Layer” diagram, you will learn how to codify the dependencies and how to integrate them into daily build so that these constraints perpetuate across versions as an “executable” architecture specification.

The cost of the one-day training camp is $499.00 plus taxes.

Space is limited to 25 attendees. Register early!

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Last update:May 20th

Attendees must bring their own computers to this workshop to carry out the labs that demonstrate how to implement a layered architecture. The student’s computer must be equipped with Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005).