The second quarter of 2010 has started, and we’re a week away from the launch date of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 – 12th April 2010.  Although most of us will not be able to attend the launch event at Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, it is our pleasure to have Dave Mendlen, Senior Director of Developer Marketing, the keynote speaker at the launch event to share with us how the latest release of developer tools can help transform your creative ideas into impactful solutions.   

On the other hand, I’m sure many of you have heard about the new family of Windows Phone (which replaces the existing Windows Mobile). Get to learn 1st hand about how you

can join part of the exciting ecosystem of developing applications for new generation of phones.

April UG Meeting

April UG meeting will be held on 16th April 2010 Friday, at Level 21 Auditorium from

1845hrs – late. Light Refreshments will be served before the session.

Transforming Business Ideas into Impactful Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
Dave Mendlen, Senior Director of Developer Marketing
1900hrs – 2000hrs

Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications, the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 can help you and your developer to unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that target an increasing number of platforms and technologies such as cloud and parallel computing.

Join us in a roundtable discussion with Dave Mendlen, Senior Director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft and learn about many exciting features in Visual Studio 2010 and how it enables you to develop high quality and scalable applications.

Speaker Profile

Dave Mendlen started his career in Microsoft as the lead product planner on.NET and Visual Studio. Prior to his current role, he also served as the speech writer for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He was previously the Director of Web Services & also Director of Windows Product Management.

Windows Phone 7 Development
Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist
2000hrs – 2100hrs

The new Windows Phone is coming!  Learn how you can get started with Windows Phone 7 app development using Silverlight.  This session is targeted for developers who would like to learn how they can start building apps or games for the phone, touching on some phone-specific features, using free versions of Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4.   There will also be an after-session discussion on Marketplace.

Speaker Profile

Chris Ismael works in Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist.  His work has taken him to various developer communities and speaking engagements both in Singapore and abroad, with topics ranging from Office development and file formats, LAMP/Interop technologies, Live Services, Windows 7 development, and now Windows Phone.  He also runs the Microsoft startup program called BizSpark in Singapore.  He has 6 years of experience in web development prior to working in Microsoft.

To register for the event, click here. Note that there’s currently no email confirmation for the event.

Directions to the venue can be found here.