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Scrum vs. CMMI Level 3

Edgar Sanchez writes "...Of late, I have been helping start a Microsoft SDL implementation effort and, as part of it, it comes the decision of what flavor of MSF we should use: Agile (Scrum nowadays) or CMMI...this is a corporate customer, expecting to have budgets and schedules defined in order to green light any sizeable project, so we naturally lean to CMMI but..."

How to Get jQuery 1.4.2 IntelliSense Working in Visual Studio 2008

Michael Palermo writes "...For those still using Visual Studio 2008 and developing using jQuery, you will no doubt desire the use of IntelliSense in your text editor to browse the jQuery objects. To make sure you get this benefit, you must have SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 applied and run a patch...[Steps]"

Code Showing Cancellation with .NET

Christian Nagel writes "...Before .NET 4 no standard mechanism has been available to cancel asynchronous method calls. That’s new with .NET 4.0...the BackgroundWorker implements cooperative cancellation by invoking the CancelAsync method, the long-running method needs to verify if..."

Code Showing Cancellation with .NET

Christian Nagel writes "...Before .NET 4 no standard mechanism has been available to cancel asynchronous method calls. That’s new with .NET 4.0...the BackgroundWorker implements cooperative cancellation by invoking the CancelAsync method, the long-running method needs to verify if..."

Enabling SCCM for Windows CE 6.0 Based Devices

Alexander Wechsler writes "...there was a little gap regarding Windows CE 6.0 based devices that Microsoft has now closed with an adapted SCCM client agent. Due to the fact that...more and more OEMs are moving onto the most recent OS platform it is great to have this support in the field. Go and look for the new client at..."

Releasing the Potential of Prism

Brian Noyes writes "...motivations for adopting Prism: Managing large projects; Distributed teams; Packaging functionality for different deployments per customer; Separation of concerns for maintainability...also discuss a little of what the team is working on in Prism 4 – specifically the MVVM pattern and using MEF for modularity. Check it out..."

Sort Data Using Code with the Silverlight CollectionViewSource

Paul Sheriff writes "...You can take advantage of the CollectionViewSource from your XAML, but dynamically change the sort order of your lists with just a few lines of code...will be using a simple Product class with three properties, and a collection of Product objects using the Generic List class. Try this out by creating a Product class as shown in the following code:..."

Windows Phone 7 and the Court of Pundit Opinion

Andrew Brust writes "...I will...present some of the consensus findings, and how I think those findings bode for the success of the WP7 platform. Here goes...To win this one, Microsoft needs to needs to..."