Expertise

ActiveMesa is a company of experienced .Net professionals. We are all eager to apply our experience and expertise in order to provide high-quality solutions for your business.

Industry Expertise

We presently have expertise in the following domains:

Online community portals
Healthcare applications
Industrial automation
Online research applications

We love to learn new things, and are eager to expand our expertise into other domains.

Technology Expertise

The primary focus of our development activities concerns interfacing with the .Net framework as well as Microsoft infrastructure. However, we are not averse to venturing outside the ‘managed’ application stack when occasion calls for it. The following is a list of the primary areas of our technological expertise.

Programming languages — C#, F#, Boo, C++
Scripting/markup languages — Html, Xml, Xslt, XQuery
Presentation frameworks — WinForms, WPF, Asp.Net (both WebForms and MVC)
Communication frameworks — Remoting, WCF, NServiceBus/MSMQ
Test frameworks — Gallio/MbUnit, BizUnit, Rhino Mocks, Typemock; NCover, NDepend
Databases — Microsoft SQL Server (Reporting, Analysis, Integration), Oracle, MySQL, db4o
Application/integration servers — SharePoint (SPS, MOSS), BizTalk Server
Other technologies — Azure, Microsoft Office integration (VSTO), Microsoft Dynamics

Infrastructure and Process Expertise

We favour agile software development practices and, consequently, our toolset is aligned towards work rather than ceremony. We do, however, value traceability and strive to offer our clients a way of looking in on the production process – this way, everyone can see who is doing what and when.

Software process — Agile (Scrum, XP), Continuous Integration (TeamCity)
Modeling tools – Sparx Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visio
Development tools — Visual Studio, XML Spy
Project management — Microsoft Project, Team Foundation Server
Task/issue tracking — FogBugz, Atlassian JIRA, BugTracker.net, Team Foundation Server
Source control — Subversion (VisualSVN), Mercurial