Thanks to Ray and Gavin for organising another top
EdgeUG meeting in Microsoft Cardinal Place and for everyone who attended my talk on Hyper-V for Developers. The audience had to deal with a huge amount of technical information that I crammed into the hour - hopefully it didn't put them off their pizza.
Fortunately the Stack Overflow master and author of
C# in Depth,
Jon Skeet, was on hand after the break for a interesting glimpse into code contracts coming with VS2010 and C# 4.0.
For those who weren't there last night, the presentation provides an overview of Hyper-V Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V, tools that you can install to help you out, how Snapshots work and finally automation of Hyper-V using the PowerShell library for Hyper-V as might be used in CI (continous integration) server.
I've got two version of the slidedeck, one in PowerPoint,
hyperv4dev-ppt.zip, and a PDF version complete with speaker notes that contains all the interesting stuff including the PowerShell script,
hyperv4dev-pdf.zip.
Thanks again to the guys from EdgeUG and all those who joined us down the pub afterwards for a beer and a chat.
Liam
P.S. Jon mentioned that Microsoft has decided that static checking of Code Contracts should be limited to the Team System versions of Visual Studio 2010. Here is a link to the Microsoft Connect request to reverse this blinkered approach and place static checking into Visual Studio Professional edition;
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=481327
Do please vote on t his topic and let Microsoft know what you think, hopefully it 's not too late to reverse this marketing decision.