Mark Monster

 Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard, real community leaders, have written the ASP.NET MVC in Action book. I did have the honour to review the MS of the book in very early stages. They were already writing this book when ASP.NET MVC was still in a preview stadium.

Although I followed the development of ASP.NET MVC, I didn’t have time to try every feature. After the final release of ASP.NET MVC this book helped me better understand ASP.NET MVC. Reading this book will give you control over ASP.NET MVC. If you want to learn ASP.NET MVC this book will really help you. It covers best practices and recipes. Besides all the basics, you will really get at speed level if you combine reading sessions with development sessions.

Yes this is kind of an advertisement, but I might end up with a set of licenses. That’s why.

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.

The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock Isolator, a unit test tool and Ivonna, the Isolator add-on for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price.

Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.

The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you’ll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.

Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.

Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.

This year will be another year I’m attending the Microsoft DevDays. DevDays 2009 will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands. This year my focus will be largely to attend Silverlight sessions, but also Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC are part of the sessions I’m interested in.

Sessions I’m attending on day 1 – Thursday 28th of May:

Sessions I’m attending on day 2 – Friday 29th of May:

Are you also attending the Microsoft DevDays? And what sessions are you going to attend?