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title: "Truly, a \".Net Master Class\""
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published: "2004-12-29T19:23:00"
updated: "2004-12-29T19:23:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Tomorrow is the last day in Juval Lowy 's Advanced .Net maser class. We learned a lot about .Net 2.0 and best practices and concepts. By this time I can certainly say this: Having paid for this out of my own pocket, it…"
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# Truly, a ".Net Master Class"

By Roy Osherove December 29, 2004

**Historical article** · Originally published December 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Tomorrow is the last day in [Juval Lowy](http://idesign.net/)'s Advanced .Net maser class. We learned **a lot** about .Net 2.0 and best practices and concepts. By this time I can certainly say this:

- Having paid for this out of my own pocket, it was worth every penny. 
- The amount of information and "what not to do" information I got is something which would have taken me a year of hardcore development with 2.0 to get, and even then probably not all of it. 
- I think that already by the first day I got a return on my investment with some great tips. (I hope to be writing several articles on related topic, after approval from Juval on them)
- Any manager who had the chance to send people over to the class and did not do so because of "financial disagreements" made a mistake. If you have consulting people that live and die by knowing hardcore stuff, they should have been there. period.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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