Microlau's Blog

March UG Meeting

microlau — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

November 2009 UG Meeting

microlau — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Trimming down of distribution list

microlau — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SGDN August 2009 UG Meeting

microlau — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:14:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Win7 – Shortcuts in Virtual Windows XP

microlau — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SGDN July 2009 UG Meeting – Recording and Slides are up

microlau — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:57:00 GMT

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

microlau — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:44:24 GMT

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,...(read more)

Uncle Bob – Principles of OoD

microlau — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:48:53 GMT

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...(read more)

SGDN June 2009 UG Meeting

microlau — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:19:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Winners of CTU 2009 MSDN Subscription – Please ping us

microlau — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:09:52 GMT

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...(read more)

Extreme Overnight and CTU

microlau — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:09:30 GMT

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...(read more)

‘Better’ Practices on SQL Server Reporting Services

microlau — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:12:37 GMT

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...(read more)

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

microlau — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:09:16 GMT

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...(read more)

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

microlau — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:37:45 GMT

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...(read more)

Possibilities for Surface

microlau — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)