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February 2010 - Posts

• What's new in Stirling?

  Microsoft Security - What's New with Stirling? - Andrew Cheng Synopsis: Forefront codename “Stirling” is a single product that delivers unified security management and reporting with comprehensive, coordinated protection across clients, server applications, and the network edge. Through its deep integration with the existing infrastructure, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft System Center, customers can reduce complexity, making it easier to achieve a more secure and well-managed infrastructure. Join this session as Andrew unwraps for you, what's new. For details about the event that happened, visit here. /Dennis Posted Feb 25 2010, 08:03 PM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: ITPros, Security, Forefront

• The Visual Studio Documentary

  Scott Guthrie sits down and talks to us about his History with Visual Studio, .NET and what Life at Microsoft used to be like.  Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University Posted Feb 20 2010, 06:03 PM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: Developers, Visual Studio, .NET, Scott Guthrie

• Windows Phone 7 Series Features Video

  Go ahead and stare – the user interface of Windows Phone 7 Series deserves it. That's the reaction we got at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona when we revealed this new holistic design system that brings together form and function based on key principles — informing every aspect of the phone. See what everyone is talking about by checking out this video. Posted Feb 20 2010, 05:42 PM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: ITPros, Developers, Windows Phone 7

• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI

  In this video, Microsoft's Chief research and Strategy officer, Craig Mundie, discuss how science and information technology can solve the worlds biggest problems. He focuses on the environment and demonstrates work from the Computational Science Group out of Microsoft Research Cambridge (U.K.). Craig discuses the huge leaps in computing power, the shift to a client plus cloud platform, the emergence of more natural user interfaces and the ability to manipulate and understand terabytes of data. Posted Feb 07 2010, 11:30 AM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: Developers, Craig Mundie

• Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

  At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many features and capabilities of Sharepoint 2010 which allows it to support Silverlight development and controls,  and walked the audience through the process of how to utilize Silverlight from a Sharepoint website.   Posted Feb 07 2010, 11:19 AM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: Silverlight, Developers, SharePoint

• Application Lifecycle Management Solution Briefing (Feb 2010)

  The DPE Team of Microsoft Singapore has just concluded another session of Application Lifecycle Management Solution Briefing on Feb 2nd, 2010. In this session, we started off with the Keynote: Optimizing Your Business with the Microsoft Application Platform by Kian Sing, as he shares how Microsoft Application Platform can help your businesses create new efficiency, reduce costs and improve your development project productivity. Next, we dive deeper into the topic on Managing Application Development and Quality by Quah and lastly, the session ended with Visual Studio 2010 Preview by Maung Maung. Thank you all for those who have attended the ALM Solution Briefing event, and for those who missed the session, feel free to download the slides available below. You may also view the recording at Application Lifecycle Management Solution Briefing (Oct 2009) Optimizing Your Business with the Microsoft Application Platform Ng Kian Sing Application Platform Sales Lead Microsoft Asia Managing Application Development and Quality Quah Hak Teng APAC Technology Solutions Specialist Microsoft Singapore Visual Studio 2010 Preview Maung Maung Phyo Technology Solutions Specialist Microsoft Singapore /GeeksEngaged Team Posted Feb 03 2010, 11:38 AM by GeeksEngaged with no comments Filed under: Developers, Application Lifecycle Management, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio