Silverlight User Group Meetup – Jan 2012

Silverlight User Group Meetup – Jan 2012

Title: How to develop and deploy Silverlight using WCF RIA services on Windows Azure Synopsis: Windows Azure is a cloud based service which supports Silverlight WCF RIA services. This topic discuss about how to develop a simple application using WCF…

Metro style theme/template designs for blogs

Metro style theme/template designs for blogs

Touchality run a metro style theme contest “Design for Windows Phone 7 Metro UI WordPress Theme” for their blog on 99designs.com. The wining award is $1,023. Six designers submitted 33 designs for that contest. By the time when I checked…

Expression Blend 5 – C# XAML Metro

Expression Blend 5 – C# XAML Metro

Yap! That pissed me off!  :-/ Jeff Sanders (MSFT) replied ~ You are not missing anything. In the Preview, it only supports jscript/html5. If you create a new C# application in Visual Studio Express 2011 you will get a XAML…

Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates

Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates

A few years back, Julian Dominguez from Microsoft pattern and practice team proposed a solution that uses Implicit Data Teamplate for WPF MVVM application development. You can read the details in his blog post “Presentation Model with DataTemplates in CompositeWPF (Prism)…

Be first + Be Smarter + Cheat = ???

Be first + Be Smarter + Cheat = ???

Margin Call is one of my favourite moves that I watched in 2011. This movie is about the group of people from large investment firm and what they did in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. I like what John Tuld said…

Community {Technology} Update 2012, Singapore

Technical Updates for the community, by the community Community Technology Update is back!!! This is the 9th iteration of CTU and we are doing something different this time round. Thanks to our venue sponsor, we will be holding upcoming CTU…