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Arnaud Bonneville a animé une conférence et un workshop au dernier forum ITIL 2007. Cet événement, qui a eu lieu du 21 au 24 mai 2007 à l'Hôtel Concorde Lafayette à Paris, était tout particulièrement dédié aux DSI et responsable ITIL des entreprises.

Le titre de la conférence est "Fondamentaux de la gestion de configuration et de la CMDB".
Le titre du workshop est "Une approche pragmatique de la mise en oeuvre d'une CMDB".

Les présentations sont téléchargeables sur le site de Baccou Bonneville Consultants.

This blog note is about the new Smart Client BAT.

1. What is a Smart Client?

Short answer: something between a thin and a thick client as shown by this drawing by Microsoft:

A smart client combines the benefits of a rich client application with the deployment strenght of a thin client.

Long answer: Read the Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide (212 pages).

2. What is a BAT?

A Baseline Architecture Toolkit is a toolkit provided by Microsoft pattern & practices team. It consists of:

• Reference Implementations
• Application Blocks
• Documentation (How-To, Hands-on-Labs...)
• Guidance Automation Packages

3. What to download for the Smart Client BAT?

The Smart Client BAT needs the following downloads:

• The Smart Client BAT
• The Composite UI Application Block (CAB, December 2005)
• The CAB Hands-On-Labs (Februar, 2006)
• The Enterpise Library Application Block (EntLib, January 2006)
• The Guidance Automation Extensions (December 2005)
• The Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT, December 2005)

Let's present MSBuild, the Microsoft's build engine shipped with Visual Studio 2005. It's a build management tool like Ant or NAnt.

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This tutorial is about NAnt, a free .NET build tool. It also deals with the integration of NAnt in Visual Studio 2005.

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This blog note will deal with unit testing in .NET using Visual Studio 2005. It will present two options to implement unit tests in .NET: NUnit and VSTS.

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