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Better grades with great looking reports

Introduction Making a good first impression on your reader takes some effort and can influence your grades to a certain extent. Although the content of your essay is of highest importance, the formatting and organization of your essay does influences your reader and makes a first impression.    So, putting some efforts on formatting is highly recommended. In this tutorial, we look at few quick tips that improve the readability of your documents and make it look professional. Adding a Table of Content Table of content (TOC) helps the reader to quickly understand how the author has organized her work and allows the reader to quickly access the information that the reader needs. Further, this helps the marker to the compare the grading criteria with work of the author. To use the Microsoft Word’s, Automatic TOC functionality, you have to first format the chapter headings and sub headings using Heading styles.    Heading Styles Highlight chapter heading a...

Creating Animations using PowerPoint

PowerPoint has great set of tools that you can use to create animation. Here is a simple animation that you may find interesting.

Scrum Framework

Agile is a popular software development methodology use today. Scrum and eXtreme Programing (XP) are two types of agile methodology. Sutherland (in Lacey 2012) states that 75% of the agile software development use Scrum framework and around 17% of the scrum team use XP engineering practices. Scrum framework looks extremely simple however it is found to be hard to implement effectively. Scrum is a lightweight and simple process framework used for developing complex products. It is not a process, methodology or engineering practices. Scrum's 5 Core Values Focus Respect  Commitment  Courage  Openess  Scrum Project Roles Scrum master  - The scrum master works as a facilitator of the team. He ensures that the team is functioning as expected.  Product owner  - The product owners is the person who drives the project.  Scrum Team  - Team who actually do the development.  Scrum Artifacts Product backlog  - This arti...

Using Harvard Style in Word 2007

Microsoft Word 2007 by default do not facilitate Harvard Style Citation. Harvard Style Citation can be installed using number of methods. Given below is one of the easiest method of installing Harvard Style Citation. Goto to the link below: http://bibword.codeplex.com/releases/view/15852 And download Styles.zip and extract the content to the following folder: %program files%\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style Voila! now you have Harvard Style every time you open Word 2007. Enjoy!

ASP.NET Web Services

Introduction to ASP.NET Web Services What are Web services? Web services provide some service or functionality over HTTP. Web service allow applications to inter-operate over networks. These services are exposed through endpoints. ASP.NET Web Services use the following four main technologies: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) -  XML (Extensible Markup Language) -  SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) - Message protocol built on top of XML WSDL (Web Service Description Language) - Built on top of XML, WSDL is used to tell the world how to consume the web service. WSDL of a web service provides information that enables application to access service, know what methods are exposed and what parameters are required to invoke the method. Clients can create proxy class using information in WSDL.  Creating a super simple ASP.NET Web Service Open Visual Studio > File > New > Project > Select ASP.NET Web Forms Application under Visual C# > Web Tem...