After having worked for almost 4 years for Microsoft, I’ve decided to let go. Some people think it’s crazy to quit a well-paid and stable job in this economy, but as much as I love Microsoft, I love my fiancée more, so it was time for me to pack...

Download : StoryShare_2009_01_11.zip (4 MB) PowerPoint : StoryShare.ppt (1 MB) See it live : http://apps.facebook.com/lenduong Screenshot What is StoryShare? StoryShare is an open-source ASP.NET/C#-based Facebook application...

Minh T. Nguyen 's Mandelbrot Explorer is an application that allows you to zoom into the Mandelbrot set fractal at an arbitrary level. Simply select an area to zoom in, and use the back button to backtrace or the restart button to start from the beginning...

What: Minh T. Nguyen , a Cal Alumnus and Senior Software Design Engineer with Microsoft Mediaroom , will speak at the alumni panel at the Letters & Science 1 class about his experience choosing his major, getting his BS degree in computer science...

About two years ago, Microsoft showed a preview of Photosynth at the internal company meeting event, and wowed us all, but we weren’t allowed to talk about it. Then, almost a year later, the beta software was made available to employees, allowing us to...

Here’s an easy way to convert a generic List of a specific type to a List of another type. List < double > listOfDoubles = new List < double >() {1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6, 7.7, 8.8, 9.9}; List < int > listOfIntegers = listOfDoubles...

Microsoft released the Windows Vista Vietnamese Language Interface Pack (LIP) last month, and I finally got some time take a screenshot to blog about it. I installed it a few weeks ago, and I think it's pretty cool!! I am now running Windows permanently...

Update: Please refer to this new post for an updated version of this application (including source code). Minh T. Nguyen 's Mandelbrot Explorer is an application that allows you to zoom into the Mandelbrot set fractal at an arbitrary level. Simply...

Whenever people ask me what I work on at Microsoft, it always takes some time explaining. I joined Microsoft TV here in Silicon Valley two years ago working on the Microsoft TV Foundation Edition. It's a platform for cable providers such as Comcast...

I’ve already played with XAML almost a year ago when it was still in the early stages, but over my winter break, I spent some time getting my hands dirty with the 3D aspects of Microsoft’s XAML/ Windows Presentation Framework . I decided to create a 3D...

Bill Gates - Last month Bill Gates came down and visited our campus . I was sitting pretty much in the front row as he talked about the company’s direction. What I found more interesting though is how he describes his work on the Bill and Melinda Gates...

I've updated my stupid PhotoResizer program today to support EXIF meta-data tags, so that digital camera image properties are now retained while resizing the pictures. Thanks to Tuan Dinh from the UK for this suggestion and feature request. Happy batch...

Starting today, a non-printable PDF version of my book “ Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks ” is available as a free download exclusively on the InfoQ.com , a new enterprise software development community that covers Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile....

I’ll be joining a few other Microsoft Berkeley alumni to present some of our work at the UC Berkeley Computer Science & Business Association 4 th Annual Technology Expo 2006 . The event will take place Thursday, March 16 th , 2006 from 11am – 4pm...

This is long overdue, but I've finally updated my stupid PhotoResizer program with the two requests that most people have asked for the most. The 1.2 update has the following two new features: A) You can now drag a folder over the area, and it will...

There has been a recent change in the Windows Presentation Foundation in regards to Storyboards (at least since the December 2005 CTP , possibly even earlier). Most of the articles you currently find on the internet and the few Avalon books suggest the...

Howdy, My name is Minh T. Nguyen, and I am a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft at the Silicon Valley Campus . Some of you might know me as enderminh on gotdotnet.com . I currently work on Microsoft TV , in particular have recently worked on Microsoft...