A basic introduction to agile methodology. It's fairly short and fun.

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Problem

Last week, our team ran into an issue which was, individually, leaving us scratching our heads. In the end, the entire process boiled down to one hidden checkbox.

We were receiving the following exception:

None of the constructors found with . . .

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Scenario

I'm building a system that will look at a lot of transaction data and determine if each transaction qualifies for one of many criteria. At a high level, I'm asking "Does this transaction qualify for any or all of sales criteria A, B, C,...,N?"

This entry will examine a poor approach without . . .

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I've recently started adding the following interface to most of my web applications in which a requirement is to send automated email notifications.

using System.Net.Mail;

namespace MyApp.Core.Service
{
 public interface ISmtpService
 {
 void Send(MailMessage message);
 }
}

And the code . . .

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The goal is to present a search bar that shows results to the user, while still allowing for a direct link to a search result without using the ASP.NET controller to pass the search identifier to the view. Why without playing with the controller? Why not.

With Kendo MVVM, this is actually pretty easy.

<div id= . . .

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Recently, while developing a MVVM app, I found a use case for using JavaScript to get the querystring from the current page. In this particular case, the page pulls a page with a search bar, but I want to be able to link to the specific search results without requiring user interaction.

My final solution was found on Stack Overflow

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