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Good news everyone! Last night at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, DC, we have released the Beta version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. You might remember that our last update prior to this was the April CTP version. So what does this mean to you developers? If you are currently building on the April CTP version, you may want to uninstall that and install the Beta version from http://developer.windowsphone.com/ . For those who have not downloaded it yet, now’s the good time to install. It’s important to go through the breaking changes listed in the release notes, but you can also check Jaime Rodriguez’ “Migrating apps from Windows Phone April CTP Refresh to the beta build” for easier reading. Everyone’s been asking us where they could attend a WP7 training. Well aside from the Training Kit, forums, and other resources to help you skill up on WP7 development, you can register for these free virtual WP7 Jump Start trainings scheduled from July 20 – July 22. Click here to register! A lot of you also inquired if they can get their own device to test on. That’s a bit of a challenge right now. But through the WP7 Call for Proposal which we ran recently, we were able to identify companies who are serious in building WP7 apps, and pick out the ones who will be prioritized for these devices. We are now engaging with most of them on a 1-to-1 basis. Take note: ...

 Singapore SharePoint Community Date 08 July 2010 Time 06:45 PM – 9:30PM Location Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF-12 Scalable SharePoint Infrastructure Management William Tay, Microsoft Singapore Come by and enjoy a highly-interactive session with William as he talks about the latest and neatest trick in the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack called PowerPivot and how it fits into the entire Microsoft Business Intelligence solution – and more importantly, how it democratize Business Intelligence in the enterprise with the Microsoft belief of BI for the Masses. Introduction to Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010 Chyan Yee Goh, Microsoft Consulting Services When it comes to identity management intensive applications, it’s hard to top SharePoint. Whether you are signing in a portal, accessing a document or using a webpart for reaching out to external web services, your identity is going to be the factor that drives it all. In this session, we will give an overview of how claims based authentication is used in SharePoint 2010 and how this opens up opportunities for authentication scenarios that were not possible before. Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of AvePoint Singapore. Please RSVP to ssofian@mvps.org to confirm your attendance. And reserve your SharePoint 2010 shirt. Whilst stocks last.

July UG MeetingJuly UG meeting will be held on 8th July 2010 Thurs, at Level 21 Auditorium from 1845hrs – late. Light Refreshments will be served before the session. Schema (XSD) Based WCF Service using Entity Framework Senthamil Selvan 1900hrs – late For developing a XML based Business Models XSD plays a major role in exposing the business entities. WCF Operation Contract can be validated against the xsd using Message Inspector without even entering into the method call. Also primitive data type and the mandatory field validation can be performed at the xsd level. These validation can be changed without changing a code. EF will be used to save the business object from XML to DB. Speaker Profile ...

Microsoft announced last week the Beta release of Windows Live Messenger Connect. It enables websites and rich-client applications to enhance the social appeal of their experience by “connecting” to Windows Live. If you can’t wait and just want to get started, visit the Windows Live Developer Center. Messenger Connect is a collection of APIs and controls that allow you to build applications so people can communicate, and share with their Messenger friends. Applications build with Messenger Connect provide seamless social experience that combines your content with popular Windows Live features such as chatting with friends, sharing status updates and activity streams. ...

Free Installation of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 90 days Trial Innovative applications can catapult your business forward providing you with a competitive advantage. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution allows you to realize the strategic value of your custom software investments. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is an interoperable family of products that help make it easier to create, test and deliver custom software solutions. A rich set of integrated tools and server infrastructure coupled with flexible and agile process’s that represent a breakthrough for development tools, help you manage and optimize your entire software development process. This event gives you a valuable opportunity to learn more about how Microsoft’s Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution can help you reduce cost, reduce development time, increase quality, and improve project visibility and manageability. To register for this event email Sandy at MSmarketing@swap.com.sg or call for more information at +65 6227 7445. ...

Project Nimbus is an effort to get more data sets online and accessible for innovators to build on. With the available data sets we have, the Project Nimbus team wanted to create an application which not only uses data just from one provider but mashing up different data sets together to make handy applications. We came out with this application to help you locate us better! Enter the location you are coming from and the application will route you straight to us showing you the traffic images along the route. What’s more? When you do visit us, it gives you an overview of the restaurants around Microsoft Innovative Centre Singapore to satisfy your hunger. How was the application implemented? 1. Get an application key – Email projectnimbus@live.com.sg to get your key. 2. Add in the AccountKey & UniqueUserID into the request header. ...

Hey guys! The Silverlight User Group will be having a their June Meetup at Hackerspace. You can find out all the details here! Date: 24th June, 2010 Time: 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM Location: Hackerspace Presentation : WCF RIA Services on Silverlight 4.0 Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. About the Presenter ~ ...

The local Singapore street view map will be provided by Microsoft soon on Bing Maps. It will be a good time for you to think of plugging Streetside view to your webpage or application to enhance your customer experience. If you have read Chris Pendleton’s Bing Maps Blog, you may find out some problems with the initial installation part. This article provides more details on installations and future developments. Firstly, there are three things you need to install as references to run Bing Maps on Silverlight. ...

We’ve got something really cool for you guys this June! James Senior (Microsoft’s “Social Web Guy”) is flying to Singapore to deliver a developer camp-style event called Web Camp. What is Web Camp? Web Camp is a free 2-day web developer event intended to educate web developers about the Microsoft Web Platform, including trending topics like ASP.NET MVC Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework, IIS, Visual Studio 2010 and much more. Who should go to Web Camp? Web Camp is for all web developers. Whether you’re currently working with PHP, Ruby, ASP or older versions of ASP.NET; or if you want to be updated with the new technologies on the Microsoft Web Platform, in an interactive environment where you can get down and dirty with your fellow web developers amongst Microsoft experts, then the Microsoft Web Camp is for you. Registrations are open! Check out the agenda and register here. See you there!

Today is Friday, and if you are a PHP developer with nothing to do this coming weekend, here is a new API library that you can try out over the next couple days. We are happy to announce a new Bing Search Library for PHP,available on Codeplex.com under an open source BSD license. From the project homepage on Codeplex.com: The Bing Search Library for PHP allows you to easily use Bing’s API to fetch search results and use in your own PHP application. The library for PHP is designed to give PHP developers an object-oriented interface to access the Bing API. It supports fluent interfaces in PHP so that options can be easily chained together for readability. ...