4th August 2009

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Agile software development continues to gain traction as a more productive way to produce working applications. The Art of Agile Development provides a practical and well-researched handbook of how to actually practice agile software development using Extreme Programming. Steve Smith reviews this title and describes some of the areas he found most valuable.

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For those of you who are using or considering ASP.NET MVC as an alternative to the traditional Web Forms ASP.NET project model, the first preview of v2 of ASP.NET MVC was released last week. You can download it here. The next version will include several new features, including support for areas, which allow a large web application to be broken down into smaller pieces, validation support, strongly typed UI helpers, and new support for templates for UI helpers. Scott Guthrie has a nice writeup of what’s included in the preview on his blog – check it out to learn more.

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We have come across a situation where we have to generate the report from more then 2 queries using crystal reports. All queries are different -- 2 transaction tables with relevant joins from dimension tables. So to make the report we have to create 2 different connections from the universe and it eventually gave performance problems when dealing with a large sets of records. In this case, we have to link each query with the others on the basis of common dimensions. While fetching a report with a large amount of data, it takes a lot of time to complete.

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