Microlau's Blog

March UG Meeting

2010-03-08T15:22:00Z

March UG meeting is held on 16 th March 2010 (Tuesday, not Thursday) , at Level 22 CF15, NTUC Building from 1845 – late. Light Refreshments will be served before the session. Peep into Bing Maps Alex Goh, Web Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore 1900 – 2000 Take a tour of the upcoming features of Bing Maps such as StreetSide and augmented reality. Also dive into the Bing Maps Silverlight control to see how easy it is to build your own Bing Map application Developing Business Applications with...(read more)

November 2009 UG Meeting

2009-11-13T13:42:00Z

This month’s UG meeting is held on 17th November 2009, at Level 22 CF12, NTUC Building from 1845 – 2115 hrs. Light Refreshments will be served before the session. Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Maung Maung Phyo. MVP (Security) 1900 – 2000 hrs Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures a program's purpose - making it hard to maintain and enhance further. Join us in this user group meeting to learn how programming with...(read more)

Trimming down of distribution list

2009-10-29T19:18:00Z

In an effort to be more mail server friendly and also to trim down our distribution list, we'll not be sending out any newsletter if you've not had any online activity with SGDN from 1st January 2009. If you still want to receive the newsletter, you're strongly encouraged to either leave a post on the Coffee Table area . Alternatively, if you don't want to receive newsletter, please log onto http://community.sgdotnet.org , Click on 'Edit' on the top right hand control of your...(read more)

SGDN August 2009 UG Meeting

2009-08-08T17:14:00Z

This month’s UG meeting is held on 13th August 2009 , at Level 22 CF12 , NTUC Building from 1845 – 2115 hrs . Light Refreshments will be served before the session. SOLID Humors Justin Lee, C# MVP 1900 – 2000 hrs S.O.L.I.D. principles are a collection of best practices within the Object-Oriented Design. This session will cover all 5 principles: The Single Responsibility Principle, The Open Closed Principle, The Liskov Substitution Principle, The Interface Segregation Principle, and...(read more)

Win7 – Shortcuts in Virtual Windows XP

2009-07-30T01:09:00Z

For those of you who’re following Windows 7, you would have noticed that there is a Virtualised Windows XP which you can run on your machine. I love the fact that I still have access to XP since some of my corporate applications ‘insist on running only in XP’ (notice my cynism :P). I only recently noticed that when you’re searching for programs which your start menu, it actually also searches for applications installed inside your Windows XP! Small but neat feature! The above image shows a search...(read more)

SGDN July 2009 UG Meeting – Recording and Slides are up

2009-07-28T03:57:00Z

Here's the recording and slides for SGDN Jul 2009 UG Meeting 1) Data Access Layer for ASP.NET - Click here 2) Data Access Layer for SharePoint - Click here...(read more)

SGDN July 2009 UG Meeting

2009-07-16T08:44:24Z

This month’s UG meeting is held on 23th July 2009, at Level 21 Auditorium, NTUC Building from 1845 hrs – 2130 hrs. Light refreshments will be served before the session. Data Access Layer in ASP.NET and SharePoint Alvin Lau, ASP.NET MVP & Kit Kai, SharePoint MVP 1900 – 2130 hrs Learn about design concerns and decisions (with demoes) on both ASP.NET and SharePoint To register for the event, kindly drop an email to microlau_at_sgdotnet_dot_org, with the subject: [SGDN] Register me for Jul 2009 UG...(read more)

Uncle Bob – Principles of OoD

2009-06-05T06:48:53Z

During my recent conversation with fellow mate, Icelava , we were discussing about development practices and design philosophies. He pointed Uncle Bob – Principles of Ood as a good guide for inexperienced developers to understand the fundamentals of a Object Oriented design. Definitely a worth-while read even if you’re a seasoned developer – We all know that our brain doesn’t retain all the information it has absorbed over time ;)...(read more)

SGDN June 2009 UG Meeting

2009-06-01T07:19:31Z

Date of Event: 4th June 2009 Venue: Level 22 CF-12 Time: 1845 – 2030 hrs (Light snacks will be served before the session) Parallel Computing in Visual Studio 2010(beta 1) Dewi Maya, C# MVP 1900 – 2030 hrs Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) is providing tools enabling developers to leverage the power of Multi core processors in an efficient, maintainable, and scalable manner. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework brings several important concepts into this toolset. In this presentation...(read more)

Winners of CTU 2009 MSDN Subscription – Please ping us

2009-05-29T02:09:52Z

This post is going out to the 4 winners who’ve won the MSDN Subscription from CTU 2009 – Kindly contact us (look inside your envelope) in order to ‘redeem’ your MSDN Subscription. As the expiry date to register the MSDN Subscription is drawing near (31st May 2009, I think ). So far, 3 of the 4 winners have responded. There’s one more winner out there… Please contact us asap....(read more)

Extreme Overnight and CTU

2009-05-13T06:09:30Z

So you survived Microsoft { one } Nation 2009 Can you survive Community Technology Update? http://ctu.geeksengaged.com Seats are filling fast! 22 nd May 2009 & 23 rd May 2009 From the Communities to the Communities FEATURING : 3 sessions of Extreme Hardcore ( Code Extreme , Lab Extreme , VSTS Extreme ) 4 Tracks of Contents (IT Pro, Developers, MOSS, SQL) 20 Sessions to hear and learn from the Experts Windows 7 Load Festival Special bundle offers! It's an event no IT professional or Developer...(read more)

‘Better’ Practices on SQL Server Reporting Services

2009-04-27T09:12:37Z

I’ll be presenting about SSRS on coming Thursday’s SGSQLUG User Group meeting on the following topic: Ever felt that SSRS is behaving slightly below your (or your customer's) expectations? Come and join me in sharing some of the 'better' practices of using SSRS. Don't just listen to me, chip in with your very own good practices, tips or tricks To sign up for the event, send an email to sqlugsingapore_at_mvps_dot_org with the subject: RE: [SGSQLUG] April User Group Meeting....(read more)

Learn, Network and Party with Singapore's User Groups at Microsoft { one } Nation 2009!

2009-04-22T01:09:16Z

First time in Singapore, 5 DAYS only! 18th – 22nd May 2009 Come down to Microsoft Singapore and celebrate the birthday of Singapore's favorite server! The Microsoft User Communities in Singapore have put together an awesome week-long event to help you unlock the full power of the Microsoft server platform - culminating in a spectacular Microsoft { one } Nation celebration on the final day! It's a festival that no IT professional or Developer should miss! Take part in live training, hands...(read more)

Using Web service to get data from SQL Server and updating the local database cache

2009-04-16T04:37:45Z

Some time back, my long time pal Apurva presented creating occasionally connected applications (aka Smart Clients). While he was preparing some materials for another purpose, he’s kindly uploaded his video and a pdf document which shows you step by step on how to build such an application. Be sure to check it out!...(read more)

Possibilities for Surface

2009-04-10T14:13:00Z

I was at the newly renovated Liang Court and saw the interactive mall directory which understands some flicking actions. The first thought that came to me is 'Surface'? But after interacting with it, I could firmly saw that it is not - There's no 'throwing' action, no zooming (and un-zooming), and the flicking reaction is sluggish. Surface came to my mind, and I thought about how it can be combined with a bunch of Microsoft technologies to give shoppers a more interactive experience...(read more)