If you have been actively contributing to online or offline technical communities over the past year, here is your chance to get recognized. Nominate yourself for the Microsoft MVP Award - a program that recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others.
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Last date for MVP Award Nominations is April 18, 2009.
For more information about the MVP Award, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp or send an email at indiamvp@microsoft.com.
Shantanu Kaushik is a Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Dehradun, India and a stock presenter on Windows and Internet Explorer.
He’s presenting a live and interactive series on new features and innovation in Windows 7 which promise to be informative as well as exciting.
Details: http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts
Windows 7: Faster and Easier
April 20, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Improved taskbar and full-screen previews - Jump Lists - New ways to work with Windows - Better device management - HomeGroup
Windows 7: Work your way
April 23, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Faster, more responsive performance - Extended battery life - Theme packages reflect your style - Take control of problems
Windows 7: New possibilities
April 27, 2009 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Share music and videos - Windows Touch - Handwriting recognition additions
South Asia MVP Lead Abhishek Kant interviews SQL Server MVP from Ahmedabad, India - Pinal Dave at the Summit. Pinal maintains a blog dedicated to SQL Server, and has authored over 900 articles.
Niraj Bhatt, a technical architect and an MVP from Bangalore, was a star presenter at the February 2009 edition of Microsoft India's Virtual TechDays- an online event that provides an opportunity to the developer, IT Pro, and designer community to dive deep into the latest offerings from Microsoft.
With an overall rating of 7.68 (on a scale of 1 to 9) for his session- Making WinForms & WPF Work Together, he was rated amongst the Top 5 session presenters and also Top 8 session content. Being recognized as the third best presenter at the event, he also won a INR 5000 worth Croma gift certificate. His content rating was 7.80 and presenter rating was 7.98. Incidentally, Niraj was the only non-Microsoft speaker to achieve top ratings.
MVPs from South Asia at the MVP Global Summit 2009, at Redmond-Seattle.
Vivek Thangaswamy, who specializes in Microsoft enterprise application architectures and Microsoft server-based product integrations, has authored a step-by-step guide for .NET developers, familiar with C#, who want to get explore programming Office 2007. It's the reward of his countless sleepless nights in the past one and half years. The book will also be useful for those of you who already have experience with VBA and programming Office, but are ready to take the next step into the more powerful world of Office programming with VSTO.
VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming
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Book listing at publisher's site
Language English Paperback 245 pages [191mm x 235mm]Release date March 2009ISBN 1847197523ISBN 13 978-1-847197-52-8Author Vivek ThangaswamyTopics and Technologies Microsoft & .NET
Mohammad Ashraful Alam, ASP.NET MVP from Bangladesh, has released a plug-in - Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in for Visual Studio Team System. Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System Test Edition provides a powerful platform to perform high volume load testing. It also provides high end flexibilities to write and utilize external plug-in for extended functionalities.
Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in enables users to send the load test reports to one or more pre-configured email addresses automatically, once a VSTS Load Test is completed. This open-source load test plug-in also provides supports for customization by which you can customize the reported performance data.
You can check the latest release of the plug-in at the MSDN Code Gallery.
SQL Server MVP - Pinal Dave is an author of over 800 articles on SQL Server on his blog www.sqlauthority.com.
He has authored a comprehensive eight-part series of Q&As for interviews on SQL. You could check the eight parts or download the complete list as a PDF here.