BEGIN:vCalendar METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:vEvent DTSTART:20081125T180000 DTSTAMP:20100908T060533 DESCRIPTION:(A Heroic Tale of loose coupling, better application design, and dependency injection)\n\nThis talk introduces the concepts of component factories, strategy pattern, Inversion of Control, dependency injection and several of the available frameworks. We'll also look at a comparison of various IoC’s (Unity, Castle, Spring.NET, Ninject) the pro's cons, practical steps and guidance as well as some of the real world scenarios with impact to Unit Testing and application architecture. We’ll be working Silverlight 2, but the concepts that we walk through will be practical and applicable to help improve all of your application designs and development.\n\nPresenter Bioagraphy:\n\nCaleb Jenkins is a training mentor and principal consultant for Improving Enterprises, National Speaker for INETA, Microsoft MVP, featured presenter for xTrain.com and Adobe.TV, technical editor for Wrox Publishing and certified Scrum Master. Improving Enterprises, Inc (http://ImprovingEnterprises.com) is a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in delivering enterprise solutions, agile methodologies and mentoring on the Microsoft and Java platforms.Host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .NET architect, Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .NET Solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; American Airlines, Countrywide Mortgage, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few. Caleb lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busies himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and writes code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he'll post some of the gazillion interviews that he's recorded on CommunityCast or blog at developingUX.com\n\n** Don't forget to bring a toy for the Toys for Tots drive for a chance to win the BIG prize at the Holiday Party.\n\nPhysicians Immediate Care, 11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, Illinois, 61115 SUMMARY:Dependency Injection with Silverlight 2.0 PRIORITY:3 BEGIN:vAlarm TRIGGER:P0DT0H15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:vAlarm END:vEvent END:vCalendar