Consulting and Mentoring

Ardent Development is a software development consulting group based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. We have a strong track record providing remote and onsite development, mentoring, and training services for clients in the United States and Canada. We specialize in developing solutions built on the latest Microsoft technologies and mentoring software development teams.

Development Services: We'll Handle the Technical Goo

Ardent Development can help architect, design, build, and deploy solutions targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework, the Microsoft Office System, and Microsoft server products. We build ASP.NET Web applications, smart client / Windows forms (WinForms) applications, Windows services, and XML Web services.

We offer fully managed software development services from our office in Moncton or you can choose to have Ardent developers supplement your existing development staff.

Need help deciding on whether to use Ardent for a project? Send us some basic specs (and an NDA) and we will provide you with ballpark estimates for free!

Mentoring and Training Services: .NET Experts on Tap

We also provide mentoring and training services for .NET development teams. For a small monthly retainer you can give your development team direct access to the Ardent team of experienced software developers via phone, email, and instant messaging: .NET experts on tap! We can also arrange for onsite visits with your developers for in-person training and/or to help out with architecture, design, coding, debugging, and deployment. Read more about our .NET Experts On Tap program.

Experience, Expertise, Enthusiasm

At Ardent Development we know that it takes talented, dedicated, and well-rounded individuals to build the best team. Our team of solution specialists has been carefully assembled from the best and the smartest professionals. Our team includes the Microsoft Regional Director for Atlantic Canada, a PMI-certified project manager, .NET user group leaders, and Microsoft-certified developers. All of our solution specialists have formal training in software development and/or computer science as well as real-world experience on a wide variety of projects. And we are passionate about creating great software: we call ourselves Ardent for a reason!

More Technologies Than You Can Shake a Stick At

We work with a range of technologies and tools to help us build great solutions. Some of those tools and technologies include:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0
• ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0
• SQL Server 2000
• SQL Server 2005
• Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Visual Studio 2005
• XML
• XSLT
• regular expressions (regex)
• HTML
• CSS (cascading style sheets)
• NUnit (automated unit testing)
• NAnt (automated builds)
• C#
• Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)