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Don't Know Where You Are? Maybe our "WhereAmI" Project Can Help...

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:51 AM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Drum roll please.... After many months of hard work, we would to introduce the people of Southeast Asia to our "WhereAmI" project ( http://locationpinpoint.com ). The goal of the project is to help facilitate location based services through...(...(read more)
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Mix-It-Up August

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 2:42 AM from Stanley Tan's Blog

Another Mix-It-Up event coming up next Tuesday, August 26.  The agenda is:

Developing Next Generation Websites with Microsoft Tools
·  Keynote: Overview of Microsoft Tools for the Web
·  Mix 01: XAML: Enabling Designer and Developer collaboration
·  Mix 02: Visual Studio 2008: The Swiss Army Knife for Web
                 Development

Register here.

Hope to see you there.  As always, I'm open to feedback.  Get me through this blog or ping me at the event itself.

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Search Olympic Medals with our Olympics Instant Answer

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:24 AM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Are you an Olympics junky? WE ARE! So much so … we build a cool feature into Live Search to help you cheer on your country or sport. No need to surf the links, just get instant answers with the medals tally classified by countries/sports. Give it a try,...(...(read more)
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Meet the Search Family – Honey Mittal (Search Intern)

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:50 AM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Hello southeast Asia! My name is Honey Mittal and I’m the new Search Intern. I work with Chewy Chong (the Search Guy) helping him manage a bunch of his exciting new projects. I am an undergraduate Computer Engineering Yr 4 Student from National University...(...(read more)
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Midows Live Search Olympics Instant Answers

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:47 AM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Hello again, I've got great news for all the Olympic enthusiasts out there. Do you fancy yourself as an Olympic junky? Windows Live Search has come up with a very user friendly way of following the Beijing Olympics 2008 and cheering your country in the...(...(read more)
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Windows Live Search Olympics Instant Answers

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:42 PM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Hello everyone, This is Honey Mittal, the new Microsoft South East Asia- Online Services Group Intern. I work with Chewy Chong (the Search Guy form SEA) mostly on Live Search and his bunch of exciting new projects.I've got great news for all the Olympic...(...(read more)
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Hello from Your Search Guy for Southeast Asia :)

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:04 PM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
First off, apologies for my readers in Singapore as it has been a heck of a long time since I made a post. The past few months have been quite hectic. I've changed roles (no longer your Developer Evangelist for Singapore) and am now your Search Guy for...(...(read more)
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 has been officially released to manufacturing!

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:33 AM from Stanley Tan's Blog

I'm sure most of you have heard already - but thought I'd add it here for completeness.  We've just released VS2008 SP1 and along with it the .NET Framework v3.5 SP1.  Some of my personal favorite highlights are:

  • Performance increases between 20-45% for WPF-based applications - without having to change any code
  • Improvements in the area of data platform, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services  and extensive support for SQL Server 2008’s new features
  • How big was the .NET Framework 3.5 full redistributable package?
    197 MB
  • How big was the .NET Framework 3.5 bootstrapper?
    2.7 MB
  • How big is the .NET Framework Client Profile full redistributable package?
    26.5MB.  That is an 86.5% reduction in the size of the package.
  • How big is the .NET Framework Client Profile bootstrapper?
    Approximately 0.5MB.  That is approximately 20% of the size of the .NET Framework 3.5 bootstrapper.

Pretty, cool, eh?  Check it out.

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SQL Server 2008 RTM'd

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:14 AM from Stanley Tan's Blog

It's official - SQL Server 2008 has RTM'd and is now available for MSDN subscribers.  I guess that means Yizhe (our MIC Specialist) should be very happy.

 

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