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  • Productivity

    My Perspective, What Happens After the Planning Meeting

    The Product Owner has the responsibility of the “what” so that the team can determine the “how”. It is a fine line that we often ride but never cross. I’ve always compared this to the strategy the military takes to fight wars. The entire team has the responsibility of winning the war, the product owner has the responsibility of determining the strategy but it’s the team’s duty to win each battle. To win battles, the cross-functional team has to fully understand the strategy in order to determine the best tactical approach. Without a clear understanding of what needs to be ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    2011 Brings More Free Database Providers for Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM

    Technorati Tags: Telerik,OpenAccess,ORM OpenAccess, Telerik’s Object Relational Mapper (ORM) recently added many more databases that are supported in the free version! The Free Edition now supports: Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 MySQL 5.x Firebird Server 2.x Oracle Database 10g  Express Edition SQLLite PostgreSQL 8.4+ In a nutshell, all version of SQL Server except for SQL Azure. OpenAccess Free Edition provides powerful features that can really move you forward in your project.  Data Access code is like plumbing. Everyone needs it, but does being a plumber give you an advantage over your competitors?  Let Telerik...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    OpenAccess Quick Start for Oracle using the Visual Designer

    Introduction This blog post demonstrates how to set up a Telerik OpenAccess ORM project for use with Oracle databases. We will use the Visual Designer to design our domain classes and then generate the corresponding Oracle database schema. Install ODP.NET Telerik OpenAccess ORM uses the ADO.NET (Oracle.DataAcces.Client) Provider from Oracle called ODP.NET. This can be downloaded from the Oracle Website. The way to your model Create a new solution in Visual Studio and add a new project of the type ‘Class Library’.   After creating the ‘Class Library’ our next step is to create a domain model. To do this we use the ‘Domain...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Generating Documentation with JustCode

    If you enjoy writing documentation from scratch, this article may not be for you. If you like removing as much repetitive work as possible, then JustCode can help you out. Aside from aiding in this endeavor with code, it also addresses code documentation. There are two primary features in JustCode I will discuss. The first is Generate Documentation which handles the XML comments for methods and types. The second is a new feature, Introduce Header, which was made available on May 3rd with internal build 1. Generate Documentation I like self-documenting code. I write short, descriptive methods intended for anyone to be...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Parameter Refactorings in JustCode

    The internal build 1 of JustCode comes with three new refactorings to easily manipulate method parameters. Move to Parameter There are times when one has hardcoded a constant value within the body of a method, but the method would have more flexibility if the value were a parameter instead. This refactoring allows you to move the variable to a parameter, and it will automatically update calls to the method with the defined value for the variable.   class Program{ static void Main(string[] args) { Ninja ninja = new Ninja(); ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read