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There is a nice article on DevX about why to use Agile development.  This article starts with brief description of three main types software development methodologies [Waterfall, Cowboy Coding & Agile]

Further this article elaborates working of agile methodology. This includes sprint planning, execution using scrum, tight feedback loops etc.

Read complete article on http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/45368

private static void WriteSoftwareListToFile(string MachineName , string ReportFileName)

StreamWriter sw;

if (File.Exists(ReportFileName))

sw = File.AppendText(ReportFileName);

else

sw = File.CreateText(ReportFileName);

sw.WriteLine("\r\nSoftwares installed on " + MachineName +

" on " + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() + " " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString());

//Registry path which has information of all the softwares installed on machine

string uninstallKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";

// using (RegistryKey rk = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(uninstallKey))

sw.WriteLine("\r\nSoftware Name \t Software Version");

try

using (RegistryKey rk =

RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, MachineName).

foreach (string skName in rk.GetSubKeyNames())

using (RegistryKey sk = rk.OpenSubKey(skName))

string SoftwareName = string.Empty;

string SoftwareVersion = string.Empty;

try

SoftwareName = sk.GetValue("DisplayName").ToString();

SoftwareVersion = sk.GetValue("DisplayVersion").ToString();

catch (NullReferenceException exNull)

SoftwareName = string.Empty;

SoftwareVersion = string.Empty;

if (SoftwareName != string.Empty)

//Exclude Updates , Fixes

if (!(SoftwareName.Contains("Security Update for Windows") ||

SoftwareName.Contains("Hotfix for") ||

SoftwareName.Contains("Update for") ||

SoftwareName.Contains("Update for Windows")))

Console.WriteLine(SoftwareName + " " + SoftwareVersion);

sw.WriteLine(SoftwareName + "\t" + SoftwareVersion);

catch (Exception Ex)

sw.WriteLine("\r\n Exception :" + Ex.Message);

I have windows vista home premium on my laptop. One day suddenly my VMWare started giving error "the vmware authorization service is not running " while starting virtual machine. I googled on internet & found KB Item on VMWare site    http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007131

It said, go to compute management & give admin rights to VMWare user & then reinstall the VMWare . Looks easy.  I started following steps . But wait.. where is familiar screen of user management.  Windows Vista Home Premium do not have provision to use GUI user management consol. Thats not fair !!

Google one more time & here you go. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistasecurity/thread/e3d50d7f-deba-4a79-b347-72ed3d14d940 

Lot of good information is mention on this thread about user management using command line. Use below command to list users on computer & get exact name of VMWareUser

> NET USERS  

Syntax for adding for adding or removing user from group is

NET LOCALGROUP <<groupname>> <<user name>> {/ADD | /DELETE}

So below command should give admin right to VMWare user

>NET LOCALGROUP Administrators __vmware_user__ /add

But Ooops !! Got an error.

System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

I am logged in as admin user still why would I get this error ?  Okey.. this is access error so my command line console is not having enough rights . Thanks to Windows Vista's User Account Control

Now right click on Command Prompt Menu & Run it as an Administrator. Now I was able to add VMWare user to administrators group from command line.  I have not yet reinstalled the VMware but I am still getting the same error. "the vmware authorization service is not running ". To to try something more , I right clicked VMWare Workstation & Ran it as administrator. I was able to start my workstation .

:) that was simple ..

There are lots of commercial graph or chart controls for ASP.net. But if you are looking for free chart / graph components below mentioned components may be useful for your needs.

• Zed Graph
  The best ever I could find is Zed Graph.
  It has nice features
  Free Source Code or Binaries can be downloaded from
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/zedgraph/

      There is a good tutorial available to use this component 
         http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/zedgraph.aspx

         One simpler example for ZedGraph for ASP.net is available at Sailing Kay’s blog
            http://sailingkay.blogspot.com/2007/03/zedgraph.html

• For very Simple HTML Graphs rendered via ASP.net.
  This is very simple horizontal bar chart. It dynamically creates html table with cells background color gives look of a bar chart.
  http://www.codetoad.com/asp.net_graph.asp

This article references to ASP.net 2.0 development.

Ramp Up is free community based learning program recently started by Microsoft.

Microsoft offers various learning tracks in this program.

• Web Development with ASP.NET
• Learn ASP.NET: for PHP Developers
• Move from ASP to ASP.NET
• Develop Windows Mobile 6 Applications
• SharePoint for Developers - Part 1
• SharePoint for Developers - Part 2
• Visual Studio 2008
• For the VS 2002/2003 Developer: Learn VS 2005
• For the VB 6.0 Developer: Learn VB 2005
• For the Java Developer: Learn .NET
• Developer Basics
  

One can opt for any track depending on their background & start learning new Micrsoft technologies.

URL for Ramp Up program is http://msdn.microsoft.com/rampup