TypeMock is holding its first TypeMock Academy on 27th April 2010 on Oslo, Norway. So are you interested in unit testing?! If you are, and you are software developer or consultant join them on this very first academy.

You can expect to see the following TypeMock experts while being there:

• Eli Lopian
• Roy Osherove http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/
• Vagif Abilov
• Gil Zilberfield
• And more…

Along with very special appearance and very special guest Uncle Bob Martin

You can find more details on the Typemock site.

During the Academy Typemock will also release their new Test Lint VS 2010 RTM. You can try out the beta of Test Lint for free now: http://site.typemock.com/test-lint/

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Few months ago, on September 2009 my friend Rashid started to blog about this open source project “Shrinkr”. And I got a chance to assist him on this.

In the last few weeks we were working on preparing this first stable release. And now we got it and it’s live on http://rdir.in.

Yesterday Rashid announced the first release which you can download from here.

In this post I’m going to show few screenshots of the live Shrinkr. And highlights few technologies used on it.

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I thought to bring your attention about uCertify’s Spring Sale. Currently, uCertify is celebrating and welcoming spring with a Spring Sale. uCertify is offering a 20% discount on all Prepkits. A user can select from extensive selection of over 200 PrepKits to help prepare for their IT certification exam(s).

Duration of Sale: Monday, April 8, 2010 and ends on April 20, 2010.

To avail sale price: Type SPRING as the discount code during checkout

Full details of the sale can be found at: http://www.ucertify.com/blog/celebrate-your-spring-with-ucertifys-spring-sale.html

About uCertify

Founded in 1996, uCertify is a leading provider of exam preparation solutions for IT certifications from leading vendors such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Sun Java, Oracle, CIW, Adobe and Cisco. They are committed to help their clients to pass their certification exams by providing the highest quality preparation software. uCertify has devoted much of its resources in Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) research. Through continuous research and development, our products are designed and updated to cater to the needs of changing technology. uCertify PrepKits replicate the actual online exams, and help you experience the real exam environment. This gives you the confidence to pass your certification exams in the first attempt.

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Introduction

You might hear of KiGG, the open source project that is currently live as http://dotnetshoutout.com. I wanted to expose part of KiGG data as an OData Service for read only. But I figured out that exposing raw KiGG schema might not be useful. So I had to choose between 2 options that were up to my mind:

• Build some views on the physical store -database-. Create a new entity data model for those views and use the new data model context for DataServiceContext.
• Use Entity Framework 4.0 conceptual model function feature with complex types to simulate views. It’s like building views on the conceptual model itself and not the store model.

I picked the 2nd option. The sample downloadable sample is available at the end of this post.

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You might noticed that I just passed the “UPGRADE: Transition your MCPD Enterprise Application Developer Skills to MCPD Part 1” exam last week. And I thought to take the 2nd part of the upgrade exam one on the same week.

Exam 70-569 “UPGRADE: Transition your MCPD Enterprise Application Developer Skills to MCPD Part 2”

Again thank God I passed the second part which is exam 70-569 last Wednesday 31st March 2010. You are eligible to take this exam if you are “MCPD Enterprise Application Development” for .Net 2.0. Achieving this exam gives the following Credential:

• MCTS .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Applications.
• MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer 3.5

To gain the MCPD Enterprise Application Developer 3.5 certification you’ll need to complete part 1 too.

It worth to mention that this exam covers for the following exams:

• Exam 70-503 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Communication Foundation.
• Exam 70-565 PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

The exam was more than 45 question. I got score 925 for WCF and 1000 for Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications.

In general, both exams were easy ones, maybe because I’ve been working for couple of years now using .Net 3.5 beside 8+ on .Net framework on general. I started this certificate things since the release of .Net, and it was a good experience that I’m gaining benefit of now. Good luck to everyone.