Microlau's Blog

SuperPreview in Blend 3

I seldom discuss about design tools (Expression Blend 3), but something which I saw during MIX09 keynote really caught me attention - And it's called SuperPreview. It allows you to preview your HTML/CSS on IE6, IE7, IE8, and even Safari.

Visiting Caleb

Here's the link to photos taking during a recent outing by a few fellow MVPs to visit Kitkai's new born son - Caleb.

MSDN Virtual TechDays - 1 April 2009

Microsoft is organizing a Virtual Event with speakers from all over the world, covering tracks as belows, on 1st April. - Windows Development and Frameworks - Windows Mobile Development - Office and SharePoint Development - Developer Tools, Languages & Practices - Web Development and User Experience Registration is free. Find out more about the event at http://www.msfttechdays.com/public/home.aspx

Mix-It-Up Event: Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0

This session will uncover the cool and new features of ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Attend this session to learn about ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, Dynamic Data, MVC Web Forms, and many other enhanced features for the web application development.

Lastly, the speaker will also discuss the new deployment feature in Visual Studio 2010, designed to ease the release of your application to various environments - Staging, UAT, Production.

The speaker for this event is Maung Maung, a community hero, fellow MVP and fellow colleague of mine

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Web deployment tool with VS2010 and IIS

Tracking back to MVP Global Summit 2008, the ASP.NET team was trying to get ideas from a bunch of ASP.NET MVPs around deployment painpoints. I'm very honored to have contributed my $0.02 in the web deployment tool which got baked into VS2010. Here's a great article from the PG about the tool.

Installing IE8 RC1 on Win7 Beta

For those of you who're trying to installing IE8 RC1 on your Win7 Beta (Build 7.000), you'll have to wait for a while longer. Apparently, the current release of IE8 RC1 doesn't support Win7 (even if you try using Vista version). IE8 will be supported in the RC build of Win7 though.