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Xebia and ASCI (Agile Software Community of India) are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Agile NCR 2010, which has become the biggest Agile event in North India. This year we have got overwhelming response on papers submitted by industry veterans, speakers from international fame and book writers.

AgileNCR 2010 will have the following themes:

Agile for newbies: This is for everyone who is partially aware or completely unaware about what everybody keep talking about... " They say something like pair programming or pear programming or something like that... Not sure what why and how..."

Agile Adoption Challenges: This track is for everyone who is right now aboard Agile bandwagon! The everyday nuance, challenges, pitfalls and solutions would be discussed in this theme.  Workshops and Craftsmanship: This theme talks about real, practical, hands-on things that you can immediately associate to everyday working in an Agile environment.  

Post Agile: Been there, done that... what next?? This theme is meant for people who feel they've had enough of Agile or who are happy being Agile but would like to look beyond. This theme focuses on other ways of software development like Kanban. The presentations on these themes are organized into 3 parallel Tracks.The agenda will be published soon.

Venue: Ansal Institute of Technology, Gurgaon

Dates: 17 July 2010 - 18 July 2010

Time: 9 AM to 6:30 PM

Csharp (C#) Tutorial

This csharp tutorial ( C# tutorial) is intended for beginners who want to learn C# programming.

If you and want jump coding, and you have the compiler for Charp (C# ) installed in your computer, skip this introduction and go directly to next page. Otherwise go ahead and read on.

INTRODUCTION

Tag Parsing C++

The tag parser is used in Visual Studio 2010 to populate the SQL database that supersedes the NCB file. All of the browsing features of VC++ rely in some way on results provided by the tag parser. These include Class View, Call Hierarchy, Go To Definition/Declaration, Get All References, Quick Search, the Navigation Bar and VCCodeModel.

Video : Michael Lopp, "A Brief History of Software"

Description :
Michael Lopp (Rands in Repose) "A Brief History of Software"

Video : Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government

Description :
Gunnar Hellekson (Red Hat Government), "Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government"

Video : O'Reilly Webcast: An Introduction to Hadoop

Description :
In this webcast, Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and O'Reilly author Tom White will provide an introduction to Hadoop/MapReduce, the open source project that allows organizations to process, store and analyze massive application datasets.

Intellisense and Browsing with C++0x

What is C++0x??
C++0x is the name for the next version of the C++ Programming Language Standard. For VC 10, the C++ 0x features that have been implemented in the compiler so far are “auto”, “lambdas”, “rvalue references”, “decltype”, “nullptr” and “static_assert”.

Details about these can be read from:
· Lambda-auto-static_assert
· Rvalue-reference
· Decltype

Windows 7 API Code Pack for .NET

The next version of Windows is only a few months away and Vista will then be consigned to the same shelf as Windows ME. Prices have recently been announced for some of the Windows 7 versions. MSDN subscribers of course have had access to the Release candidate for some time.

How to write a Share Trading Bot in C or C++

To enter the Ongoing Programming Challenge #2 you just have to supply a single source code file called bot.c or bot.cpp. The rest of this article describes how to write it.

Multiple Inheritance in C++

Using multiple inheritance in C++
Deriving directly from more than one class is usually called multiple inheritance. Since it's widely believed that this concept complicates the design and debuggers can have a hard time with it, multiple inheritance can be a controversial topic. However, multiple inheritance is an important feature in C++ and C++ programmers think of it as a very good structuring tool.

To get a taste of this, let's consider the following real world example:

Managing Database Operations Using ADO And C++

Now that we have gone over the basics, described a way to design and create ADO wrapper classes, it is now time for the final phase of creating an ADO manager class that will work on all the concepts we have discussed. Our final goal with this design is to use as little code as possible in running any of the desired SQL operations against the database. Without this ADO manager class, every time we needed to perform some kind of operation we

Operator Overloading  (C++ The Overloading Principle)

In C++ the overloading principle applies not only to functions, but to operators too. That is, the meaning of operators can be extended from built-in types to user-defined types. In this way a programmer can provide his or her own operator to a class by overloading the built-in operator to perform some specific computation when the operator is used with objects of that class. One question may arise here: is this really useful in real world

Constructors and Destructors in C++

Constructor and Destructor Order
The process of creating and deleting objects in C++ is not a trivial task. Every time an instance of a class is created the constructor method is called. The constructor has the same name as the class and it doesn't return any type, while the destructor's name it's defined in the same way, but with a '~' in front:

class String
{

public: