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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. ...

ABOVE Solutions today announced the first interactive media application, TangoFX™, on Windows Phone 7. TangoFX is a context aware interactive service that provides live and on-demand cinematic experiences for viewers to watch their favorite content anywhere, anytime and on any screen. Through the Microsoft BizSpark program, ABOVE worked closely with Microsoft to develop TangoFX and create a world-class media application for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. TangoFX is also the industry’s first open standards-based real-time collaborative interactive media platform. The software platform runs an advanced user interface and video applications in a limited memory footprint, allowing for optimal implementation on a variety of network and devices. Using smart on-screen widgets, the interactive service enhances the cinematic experience by allowing viewers to connect with friends and family, and pick, share and discuss scenes of mutual interest while watching live or on-demand content. The interactive service leverages several patent-pending technologies to provide individual and shared interactive program guides that allow viewers to completely personalize their viewing experience to match their media & entertainment lifestyle. TangoFX is built on a next generation interactive media platform that is customizable for telecom carriers, content providers, and social media networks. Poonacha Machaiah, Chairman & CEO of ABOVE Solutions had this to say about the TangoFX platform: ...

Two weeks ago, we held our Imagine Cup 2010 Awards Ceremony at Marina Bay Sands. The special guest of course, is none other than the CEO of Microsoft himself, Steve Ballmer. The event was attended by over 600 academics and students from IHLs in Singapore, as they experienced a demo fest of Microsoft’s latest technologies, and witnessed the crowning of Singapore’s top software design team, Mama-Bear from Temasek Polytechnic, who will represent us in Poland come July. Hosted by John Fernandes, the event also awarded Hu Zhengbin from Nanyang Polytechnic with the IT Challenge Award. Zhengbin is currently ranked top 3 in the world, and will slug it out in Poland to see how he ranks on the global stage. Three students also posed a variety of questions to Steve that ranged from questions on his ambitions as a teenager, our cloud computing strategy and some of the key learnings he has had as CEO. Steve had a great time interacting with the students and vice versa as they shared a couple of lighter moments during the award ceremony and Q&A. Congratulations to Zhengbin and Mama-Bear, and a very big thanks to IDA and Nanyang Technological University for making Imagine Cup 2010 happen! See you guys next year! For those of you who missed the event, here are the videos from the event: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12297285[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12283185[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12197623[/vimeo] Click below to see a slideshow of all of the photos we took from the event (close to 400): [iframe: title =“Preview” scrolling=“no” marginheight=“0” marginwidth=“0” frameborder=“0” style=“width:122px;height:137px;padding:0;background-color:#fcfcfc;” src=“http://cid-dda3d8710dc750f8.photos.live.com/embedalbum.aspx/Imagine%20Cup%202010%20Awards%20Ceremony"]

Session 1 – Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service Abstract: AD LDS provides directory storage and access for applications, AD LDS uses the same standard application programming interfaces (APIs) as Active Directory to manage and access the application data. The resulting conceptual and programming compatibility makes AD LDS ideal for applications that require directory services, but do not require the complete infrastructure features of Active Directory. Skill Level: 200-350 (Intermediate to Advance) Session 2 – Infrastructure Troubleshooting Abstract: Regardless of how well your infrastructure is designed, mysterious problems always plague Systems Engineers and Administrators. There are a myriad of tools to use, but which is the right one? Using the right tool is crucial is finding out what is wrong and how to fix it. This session introduces Advanced Troubleshooting Tools followed by Debugging techniques to troubleshoot User Mode problems which includes LeakDiag, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, ADPlus utility and Windbg. We will also do an elementary debugging techniques using Windbg. Skill Level: 200-350 (Intermediate to Advance) Registration For registration, please email to swug@mvps.org with the following: - SWUG ID - Name - Email Address Note: There won’t be an event confirmation. Just turn up, we don’t turn people away. However, please register if you’re coming

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. ...

Since the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, we have witnessed a phenomenal demand for the progress towards Natural User Interfaces. There are now new generation of PCs enabled with multi-touch functions and touch-optimized applications being released as you read this. The market for touch PCs is heating up. About 10 percent of new PC models in 2010 will support touch technology, says Amy Leong, research director at Gartner Research. “In the next few years, we are going to see touch technologies being tested and deployed for many applications. More than 6 million PCs with touch screens will ship in 2010, nearly four times more than in 2008.” Microsoft has worked closely with HP, one of our largest partner PC manufacturers, during the development of Windows 7 to ensure hardware design presents a flawless symbiosis of software and hardware integration. This collaboration between Microsoft and HP result in a truly intuitive, innovative and engaging computing experience that brings technology to life in ways never available before to a mainstream consumer audience. To further unlock the potential of HP’s touch-enabled hardware and TouchSmart 3.0 software together with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, HP is now seeking software developers to join the HP TouchExchange Programme in creating cutting edge and functional applications that will revolutionize the future of the touch technology and bring new innovations to consumers. If your application holds commercial potential, HP may provide you with a HP TouchSmart PC and a sizeable start-up capital to help you develop your application and commercialize it in the market. With the wide range of touch-ready Windows 7-based computers coming to market this year, with some priced low enough to put touch within just about everyone’s reach, it offers great potential for you to showcase your solutions to a huge audience. The Windows 7 Multitouch Platform is a very powerful development platform. Microsoft with HP aim to provide you the necessary support and resources to help you succeed, connect with the relevant business partners and expand your market reach. For more details on the HP TouchExchange programme initiative, please read here. The Microsoft Innovation Centre is more than willing to help you achieve success. ...