Chris Leong

Disoriented views from the rosy lens of an optimistic realist.

Month: November, 2008

New charting controls for ASP.NET

Just found out from Scott Gu’s blog that there is a new charting tool for ASP.NET. You can download it from: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls There are many sampels and documentation on how you can use this control. Now this is much more easier for developers to create interactive charts. Check out the [...]

Excel Tips & Tricks – Enter a Fraction in a Cell

When doing excel calculation, sometimes I want to display value as 1/3 instead of 0.33333. I just learnt that you can do that in Excel with just a few simple steps. Microsoft Office Excel can display, and take data entry as, fractions as well as decimal numbers. To enter a fraction, simply prefix it with [...]

ALM Workshop – Slides

I presented in the Application Lifecycle Management Workshop on 18 Nov, Tuesday on “Governing Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System”. Here are my slides     If you have a webpage still running on ASP, you can use this tool to check for SQL injections vulnerabilities. Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection

MS Outlook – Tips & Tricks

Everytime when I try to focus on doing work, I always got distracted by those pesky email notification. It pops up everytime there is any incoming email. Here is how you disable it. Turn Off E-Mail Notifications Because an e-mail notification icon appears whenever you receive new e-mail, it’s tempting to stop work and open [...]

Office Tips – Save time with Format Painter

Spend a lot of time on duplicating formats of your Word, Excel or Powerpoint document? There is an easy way of doing this. Use Format Painter.   The Format Painter tool duplicates the formatting from one part of a document to another. So less manual work. How to use it? Select the text whose formatting you [...]

Samsung Omnia – 42 good things

Samsung Omnia is not only a good phone, but are really creative in marketing it. Sometimes i do get tired of looking at all the phone specs and trying to figure out what does it really mean for me. Samsung came out with a creative way of showcasing all its features, YouTube style. When i [...]

Innovation day – Great User Experience with WPF & Silverlight

Today, I just did a talk on a event called Microsoft Innovation Day. This event previews some of the emerging technologies and trends, resources, and business benefits. MDEC is also doing a pitch on how technopreneur’s can get pre-seed funding for their business ideas.

If you feel like giving up? Watch this and be inspired

I always wanted to stay focus on stuff related to technology in my blog. But this clip really inspired me. It really makes me realized that how lucky we are and there should be no concrete reasons for us to give up. This reminds me of an email I read about “if you complaint that [...]

Digi Yellow Man Pwned By Celcom

Just saw a funny youtube video about Celcom Vs Digi (South Park style)… I can’t wait for Digi’s fightback Another funny way of creating one’s brand awareness through digital marketing

Create your own baby with Volkswagen

Of course not the real one. A virtual baby. Recently, I’ve just found a new marketing idea by Volkswagen to create the stickiness factor in digital marketing. Not sure how’s the response, but I find it quite interesting and have tried it out by creating a baby of Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt (If they [...]

New Silverlight Toolkit?

There is the new silverlight toolkit in town. It offers various controls that you can use to build rich internet applications. Now it is much easier for developers like me to create cool webpages with Silverlight.   Here are some of the screenshots of the charts that you can create online. To download the toolkit [...]

Learn Tips & Tricks about MS Office 2007 in Times Bookstore

If you have time, do drop by. I heard there’s some freebies. Too bad I got class on that day…