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30 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Singapore Management University hosts Microsoft’s Overview of Windows Phone 7

Posted by: Mingfei Yan

August 27th 2010, Singapore Management University hosts Microsoft’s Overview of Windows Phone 7 session. Within this two-hours session, Microsoft introduces the usage of Visual Studio and Expression Blend to students with working-through demo. Meanwhile, a lot of existing Silverlight and XNA applications are introduced to illustrate new level of functionality Windows Phone 7 could achieve . [...]

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17 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Windows Phone 7 App – SG NRIC Checker

Posted by: Microsoft Student Partners

Recently, I have been very much involved with Windows Phone 7. From developing Windows Phone 7 app for codeXtremeApps competition to listening Chris Ismael presenting about Windows Phone 7 in MSP meeting to coming up with developers’ bootcamp on Windows Phone 7 in my institution. Let me take you through how do we create a [...]

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13 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Windows Phone 7 Developer’s Session By Singapore Poly MSPs

Posted by: Microsoft Student Partners

After a month odd of preparation, we finally pulled it off – a Windows Phone 7 Developers’ session right here in our campus: Singapore Polytechnic. We had a huge list of sign ups, so we changed our plans and split the originally planned single session into two concurrent sessions. Out of the 60+ registrations, 30 [...]

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06 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Windows Phone 7 – My First Phone App!

Posted by: Pratibha Kumar

After much procrastination, I started to create my first Windows Phone 7 application this week. To be honest I did not think it would be an easy task given that it has been quite a while since I last opened visual studio to code something(much of my time has been spent admiring apps written by [...]

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27 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Catching up with SQL 2008 R2

Posted by: Dennis Chung

My first brush with SQL was in 1996, with SQL 6.5. It was known as the “mickey mouse” database for some reasons i couldn’t understand then (well, i was still a student u know). I had huge respects for DBA (Database Administrators) and earned my first DBA Certification (MCDBA) from Microsoft in 2002. And subsequently [...]

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