Happy Birthday Lena!

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2 months ago
by Guo Hong in ,

Last Sunday, we celebrated Lena’s birthday at Il-Lido on Sentosa Island with Wei Wei and Adeline! Microsofties whom I know from the Public Sector team and we worked together in several projects! As for Lena, I knew her since 4 years ago. We first worked together 4 years ago at MSP AprecioNite at the counter where we uses tablets to take pictures of the guest and we get them to sign on it! It was an awesome experience working with her and we worked together in several projects in MSP thereafter. It was nice catching up with them during this happy occasion! My awesome sisters!

My good sister who will be there for me when I needed her, she have taught me and show me alot of things about life.

We even went together to Thailand and present at the 7th APAC Regional Innovative Educations Forum and Education Leaders Forum! She helped me alot along the way!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LENA!

Lena Chang

Lena Chang

Our "Zi Lian" photos

Our "Zi Lian" photos

P.S: Lena’s birthday is very special this year, 11 Nov(11) 2011, hence I decided to post this during 11:11am!

By the way, il-lido has awesome Italian food!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LENA!

Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 – Creating a video with Powerpoint

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2 months ago
by Guo Hong in ,

*Found this post sitting in my draft. Its been there for more than 5 months. Since its been done up, I don’t see a reason why I should delete it. Should just post it out. :)

Recently I was asked by a teacher from one of the Singapore School Clusters on how do we create a video using Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. Teachers want to use the feature so that they can create a video for their class. I thought it will be interesting to share how do we go about doing it since i found no clear resource on how we can do this online.

I created this screencast hoping to assist people on how to create a video from powerpoint in Powerpoint 2010

Note: You can record narrations into the video and laser pointer as well.

You can download the sample file here:
http://cid-29f099c37b76ca59.office.live.com/self.aspx/Blog/Office%20Demo/Lim%20Guo%20Hong.pptx

Should you have any question, please feel free to contact me at guohong@limguohong.com

Do visit Tutorials page for more tutorials!

BingMapsDirectionsTask – Getting driving / walking directions

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3 months ago
by Guo Hong in , ,

I was revisiting my old projects and reflecting on how I could improve on those products. I didn’t realised that there are so much we can do with the new Windows Phone APIs! I was looking at the MSDN’s Microsoft.Phone.Tasks Namespace and found out that there is a Bing Maps Direction Task Class now!

The first thing I thought of was the Green App project which I did during codeXtremeApps 2010 Its a Windows Phone 7 project where we direct our users to the nearest recyling bin around Singapore for them to recyle their waste product. There are more functions which I will not elaborate on here. I will be updating my project/portfolio page soon! I was playing with the Bing Maps Direction Task API just this afternoon. Thought it will be useful to post a tutorial on how to use it. :) Should you face with any problems, feel free to contact me via the Contact Me form or email me at guohong@limguohong.com

Step 1 : Adding using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and using System.Device.Location into references.

Bing Maps Directions Task 1 - Adding Reference

Bing Maps Directions Task 2 - Adding namespace

Step 2 :  Adding the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and System.Device.Location into the project

Bing Maps Directions Task 3 - Adding namespace

Step 3 : Initialize a BingMapsDirectionsTask and create a start and end LabeledMapLocation . Note that start is optional. Should you not provide start location, the API will use the current location by default.

At the end of it, .Show() it and it will show the map.

BingMapsDirectionsTask Direction = new BingMapsDirectionsTask();

LabeledMapLocation start = new LabeledMapLocation(“Hougang Ave 4 919 Singapore , Singapore”, null);
LabeledMapLocation end = new LabeledMapLocation(“Paya Lebar Air Base, Singapore”, null);

Direction.Start = start;
Direction.End = end;

Direction.Show();

You can download a usage demostration of the class here. Source code included.

Please note that this is written for WP7.1

Bing Map Direction Task Demo Source Code Screenshot

Bing Map Direction Task Demo Source Code Screenshot

P.S: These 2 classes caught my attention, when I have some spare time, I will look into if I will be able to use it in my Slime Sweeper 2! ShareLinkTask class and Share Status Task Class!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the contact form, comment or email me at guohong@limguohong.com

Do check out the tutorial page too!

Finally … after 9 weeks … Passed out!

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3 months ago
by Guo Hong in

On the 6th October 2011, I finally passed out from Basic Military Training and I am no longer a recurit, I am now a private! We booked into STC on Sunday night to start rehearsing for our passing out! It was very tiring but of course, it was worth the cause.

It was drizzling on the actual day itself ( Not sure if it was cat 1 ) but we pressed out and gave an awesome “performance” to our parents and relatives / friends. Drills were performed by some of the vocations for our parents in between the 2 march-ins we have. Our parents were invited to don our berets for us and put on the formation patch on our Smart 4. The moment was exhilarating for both us and parents! Our Air-Force commander was there to witness the event too! Thank you!

Congrats to Team Singapore Female Dui Lian

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3 months ago
by Guo Hong in
World Wushu Champion Duilian Singapore

World Wushu Champion Duilian Singapore

World Champion for Duilian event!!

Congrats Emily, Yu Juan and Yi Jun! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_World_Wushu_Championships )

Designing appropriate technologies for the developing world

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4 months ago
by Guo Hong in

Neat work done. Saw it on my Facebook’s feed. Thought its interesting to share it out.

Missing Leopard

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4 months ago
by Guo Hong in

1 more day to book out day and we are so happy ar
We are from Leopard Coy, Leopard Company ar
Leopard Coy, Leopard Coy
We are from Leopard Company
Leopard Coy, Leopard Coy
We are from Leopard Company

Hope all of you are doing fine! =)

Conscription

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4 months ago
by Guo Hong in ,

On 2nd August 2011, I became Full Time National Servicemen ( NSF ). I went to Pulau Tekong, Leopard Company. I was in Leopard Company, Platoon 1, Section 4.

Due to my knee injury which happened 2 years ago ( ACL injury | Recovery process of my ACL ), I am in PES C2L2 ( What is C2L2? | What is PES? ). My training in P.Tekong is much easier than the rest ( comparing to PES A/B intake ) and we are given a good basic military training. Training us to be soldiers, defenders of our country, protectors of our land.

I made a bunch of awesome brothers there. I will never forget them even though we are only together for 1 month. I had a 19 days confinement in there and we undergo training, stress, field camp and lots of different experiences one can ever imagine in there together. Helping one another to ensure we complete our respective task as a team. The feeling is really awesome. We were both mentally and physically trained.

I have very good platoon commander, platoon sergeant and section commander whom are very understanding to our needs while ensuring they made us into “man”. Thank you.

I have left P.Tekong Leopard company on 2nd September 2011 and is going embark on a whole new experience in AFTC. In 5 weeks’ time, I would have completed my BMT.

To all my awesome brothers in Leopard Company ’03/11, all the best to your training in respective locations. We will meet again.

WCF Completed Event firing more than once

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6 months ago
by Guo Hong in ,

The problem situation is stated in the title. =P

The “fix” to the problem is something real simple. I didn’t notice it when it happened to me the first time. This post is also posted to remind myself about it.

This is an example of a code with the problem.

public class WorkingArea{
Server.ServiceClient client = new Server.ServiceClient();

public WorkingArea()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void btnCheck_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
client.CheckCompleted += new EventHandler(Client_UpdateCompleted);
client.CheckAsync(Value);
}
}

This code seems to be working fine. I have a Service which I declare it as client and everytime I click on the button Check, i attach the event handler and call the async method to run it. But wait, what went wrong is this.
“…..everytime I click on the button Check, i attach the event handler and call…….”

What happen is there will be alot handlers being attached to the client variable as times go by ( with the user clicking the button in our example ). The callback/comepleted event will increasingly happen with the button click in this example. With abit of moving of that line where you attach the handler. This will solve the problem.
“client.CheckCompleted += new EventHandler(Client_UpdateCompleted);”

I will recommend putting this in the constructor, loaded event handler or onNaviagtedTo. This will depends on what is the architecture of the application you are building.

If you have any question, please feel free to contact me at guohong@limguohong.com or use the contact page. Please visit the tutorials page for more tutorials from Microsoft Office to Windows Phone!

From 7661

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6 months ago
by Guo Hong in

Phone packed with awesomeness.

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