Office Web Application
I have heard about this not long ago but have to keep quiet until now. Office Web Application is basically web based Office applications hosted on the web. It is based on a S+S model powered by AJAX and Silverlight. It is available on Office Live (for consumers) and as volume license (for enterprises) In near future any devices (incl PC and phones) will be above to open (and EDIT) Office documents on the web! Best of all, Office Web Application will ship with Office 14!
There is a screencast here on Channel 9. And Joel Olson is blogging about it too.
Windows 7 screenshots out!
Unless you are in PDC, this is the closest you can get to the next version of Windows called Windows 7. Good fellas at Microsoft uploaded this yesterday (or today, depends where is your time zone) to Flickr.
Three key innovations I love most
1. A new taskbar design, to me its a cleaner taskbar
2. Lightweight Media Player
3. Peek technology – whenever you move your mouse to the lower left corner all windows will be ‘transpalented’ as shown above. Good while your boss walk into your room when you are ‘facebooking’. 
Check out the rest of Windows 7 from blogs like engadget and osnews.
Windows Azure platform announced
Today at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced the Azure Services Platform (codenamed “Strata”), an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform.
As part of this announcement, a number of developer services were publicly announced in Azure, one of these services was Microsoft SharePoint Services. This is not the same as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 which shipped in Windows Server. Microsoft SharePoint Services is a developer service that will be available as part of Azure in the future.
Here are answers to a few frequently asked questions:
What is Microsoft SharePoint Services in Azure?
In the future, developers will have access to SharePoint functionality in the Azure Services Platform (“Microsoft SharePoint Services”). With the flexibility to use familiar developer tools like Visual Studio, developers will be able to rapidly build applications that utilize SharePoint capabilities as building blocks for their own applications. Developers can expect a breadth of SharePoint capabilities across the spectrum of on-premises, Online and the Azure Services Platform.
Where can I find more information about Microsoft SharePoint Services in Azure?
We have not announced any further detail or release dates. We will release more information about this in the future.
How do developers get ready for Microsoft SharePoint Services?
Keep developing on SharePoint technology (MOSS, WSS, SharePoint Online)! You can learn more about SharePoint Development here.
VB9 Tips & Tricks @MS Student Partners Bootcamp
MS Student Partners is the program for university student to come on board and learn more about Microsoft technologies besides working together with Microsoft on some events and projects. These guys are awesome and they had help out in event like TechEd SEA. I had the opportunity to do a talk at the 2 days Student Partners Bootcamp here in KLCC. Its actually a redeliver of TechEd 2008 VB9 IDE Tips and Tricks session by Lisa Feigenbaum.
You can download the content of the session here or here.
To the student partners, Visual Basic ROCKS!!!
How to deploy a WCF web service project onto IIS6/7
In your webservice project, you have PrecompiledWeb folder, this folder contain the web service project in compiled form. Copy the content of the PrecompiledWeb, which is the CustomXmlService folder in this case to c:\inetpub\wwwroot
Now the folder is a website in the web server (but without the ability to run .NET code) so go to your IIS manager console to make this website to a web application. In the console you will see that you newly copied folder does not have a globe icon.
You can see the website in your Default Web Site, in IIS7 right click and select Convert to Application.
Still inside IIS7, a new window will pops up, click OK to accept the settings.
For IIS6 right click to open up the property page of the website
A new window will pops up, showing the default Directory tab
What you need to do is to click on the Create button on the lower half of the window
Click OK if you are not changing the application pool or execute permissions. Leave the permission at Scripts only.
To test out the web service, open it inside browser and the service description will come out.
In Visual Studio client project, delete your project Service Reference and add a new one pointing to this deployed web site.
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
- 10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail
- Visa certifies NFC-equipped Android, BlackBerry smartphones for payWave -- Engadget
- An easy way to use certificates for WCF security - CodeProject®
- 6 Things To Do when you got your Unifi Wireless Router D-Link Dir-615 « Sawanila.com™
- Controlling Registry ACL Permissions with Powershell
- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
- Using Local Machine Accounts for Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010
- How Trello is different - Joel on Software