Before I go about writing the actual content of this post, let me just say how glad I am that I'd finally got rid of the procrastination to resume blogging. Blogging again for the first time since my last post gives me a sense of dejavu, and it’s great...

For the past few days, I’ve been delving really deep into Geneva , though it can be really frustrating at times because it takes awhile to learn the definitions. Although I’m somewhat familiar with terms like Relying Party (RP), Identity Provider (IP...

My Live Session information was just published on the Microsoft TechDays 2009 website . Here’s a screen clipping of it: Catch me live tomorrow at 10:30 am (UTC+08:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore.

Just released - the first preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit! This training kit preview includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The content is designed to help...

For the past 3 days, I’ve been engrossed in finishing an IE8 accelerator for my pet project codenamed as Arc Reactor. The IE8 Accelerator is simply known as Arc Accelerator. None of these names are final yet, as my team mates and I are still deliberating...

If you can’t wait to download my slides from the Adopting ALM event, it’s right here: The other thing I demo’ed at my session was how to set up an interactive TFS Build agent. There’s a good reason why you would want to run an interactive TFS Build Agent...

A couple days ago, I presented a session called “Continuous Integration throughout the Entire Development Lifecycle” at an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) event held at Auditorium East, Level 29, Microsoft Malaysia’s office. As promised I will...

FAQ for Innovate On Q. I have already profiled my solution on Innovate On portal but I didn’t print out any web pages during the solution profiling process. How do I go back to my solution profile details? A. Login to www.innovateon.com using your Windows...

You might think which idiot would want to run a business that is not profitable. True. So wouldn’t you want to invest some time to estimate the P&L for new business opportunities using a tool. This is perhaps the best-kept secret on the Microsoft...

Microsoft Innovation Day MSC Technology Commercialization Center @Cyberjaya (21st October 2008) This event had attracted 43 attendees. Developers from Shell IT, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) and Sapura IT were among the attendees.  The technology...

Microsoft Innovation Day MSC CyberCenter, Plaza Sentral @Kuala Lumpur Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) @Cyberjaya (5st August 2008) – Repeated event  This event had attracted 87 breadth audiences ranging from project manager, architects...

This event report came from my colleague, Rahimah, who is the Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) Manager at Cyberjaya.   Microsoft® Innovation Day events offer an inspiring and productive day of previews of emerging technologies and trends, resources...

Thanks to a reader of my blog, SharePoint To Go sample application now uses the Sync Framework 1.0 RTM. The kind contributor of the updated version is one Daniel Studer from Switzerland. Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. Daniel has updated...

There's a good article about how to create versioned assemblies for precompiled ASP.NET web sites. You can read it here . In order to create versioned assemblies, one of the easiest way is to add a compilerOptions attribute to the compiler Element in...

In the past couple of days, I've been delving into prescriptive architecture guidance for Team Foundation Server (TFS). Along the way I learnt something new, something I never knew existed in TFS. It's called cloaking. Allow me to quote the following...

In a week's time, I'll be in Guangzhou to assist a managed ISV. Guangzhou is located in the province of Guangdong, and the people there primarily speak Mandarin and Cantonese. I speak Cantonese somewhat fluently, but I know very little of Mandarin. This...

My apologies on the delayed response to upload the PanelAnimator utility class for WPF. Just got it from William Lim, the Lead Architect in Entellium Technologies. Essentially the PanelAnimator does the following: Animates stack panel when your WPF app...

In one of my previous blog posts , I talked about InnovateOn and what are the benefits to you for profiling your solution. Here are the steps to profile your solution on InnovateOn. Sign in using your Windows Live ID at http://www.innovateon.com Under...

Woo hoo! I get to show off how test-driven development is done, with Microsoft VSTS at the cockpit. In fact that is the exact title of my presentation. I was invited by the Malaysian Software Testing Board to present at its software testing conference...

Now I can expound on the demo I delivered at TechEd SEA 2008 called SharePoint To Go. There's a long title to it, but let's just leave it to SharePoint To Go. I don't mean SharePoint is to go away anytime soon, it means the same as "take away" in this...

Photosynth, which was initially released as a Microsoft Live Labs Technology Preview, is being released as a new free service, to become part of MSN. The new product, available at www.photosynth.net , combines a 20GB online storage and presentation piece...

The final session I delivered at TechEd SEA 2008 was one titled "Outlook Application To Go! Building an Occasionally-connected outlook add-in using Outlook+Services Blueprint". I tag-teamed with Patrick Yong , for this instructor-led lab (ILL). Patrick...

This is truly a wonderful experience, to play drums on Rock Band in front of a crowd. So far I was far from being contented playing in front of a virtual crowd in the world tour. Check out the video which my ex-colleague, KC, took, and he uploaded the...

You may have realized by now that my recent blog posts are not in chronological order. But I think that this is better than not blogging at all. Life's revolved around TechEd SEA 2008 since the past one month. Check out my profile on the TechEd SEA 2008...

As promised, here are the content from my other session at TechEd SEA 2008. This session was titled WUX338 - Creating Dynamic UI with Windows Presentation Foundation. This session was not solely mine to present, I did a tag-team with the Lead Architect...