The rule for planning a Sprint with Scrum effectively is having cristal clear the goals: they will guide the developers to the definition of the possible tasks and the best ways to realize them.In the last articles about Scrum i talked you about its efficiency as a framework for the implementation of the Agile methodology and about roles in a Scrum team. I've also explained that with Sprint we m...

Since version 3.0 of C# some features that make writing classes and common methods simpler and concise have introduced. In this post we talk about automatic properties and object initializers. AUTOMATIC PROPERTIES The automatic properties (or auto-implemented properties) are nothing more than a compact syntax for writing the properties of a class. They allow you to write code like 123public String name {get;...

Hi all, In today’s post I want to introduce a simple method for attaching DataSet objects, instantiated in our code, to CrystalReport 2008 reporting tool. CrystalReport is a powerful tool that allows you to easily create reports on data processed in our .NET applications. The ...

I continue my post on LINQ and C# programming talking about the conversion from XML file to C# classes. Previously I’ve show how to serilize a C# class into XML file. Let me show you an example. Suppose we have an XML file that contains the list of Italian municipalities with their area code. We now want to load this file into a list of C# objects more convenient to use within our application. Define the file M...