It’s wonderful to have more community leaders and technology experts as Microsoft MVPs. Microsoft MVPs are announced every quarter, though the award is valid for an year, given for the contributions of the individual to technical communities over the past year.
Join me in welcoming the new MVPs for this quarter:
Pavan Kumar Paruchuri, a Consumer Security MVP from India and author of a popular cyber security portal – www.9-zone.com, has authored an eBook on cyber security and privacy control which also includes Windows 7 security enhancements. The exhaustive resource cover all security domains as:
The book is available as a free download here in a 25MB PDF file format.
Mohammad Ashraful Alam, an ASP.NET MVP from Bangladesh, has had his ASP.NET starter kit - Employee Info Starter Kit – featured on the official ASP.NET site and on MSDN Code Gallery on several occasions.
The open source project has been updated to be built on an architecture based on .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 in last few months. This project is intended to be an architecture guideline for ASP.NET developers worldwide.
The starter kit has been very popular through the releases with more than 150,000 downloads since the first release.
Visual Studio 2010 was launched by Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft - S. Somasegar at the recently concluded Microsoft TechEd India 2010.
Anoop Madhusudanan, a Client App Development MVP from India, has created a Silverlight client for Scott Hanselman's Nerd dinner.
The application pulls Dinners and RSVPs from Nerd Dinner website over the oData endpoint, and show them via the Bing maps control for Silverlight. The app is available open-source.
Anoop details the development in his blog post here which also serves as a how-to on Silverlight project with following milestones:
In all enthusiasm for the upcoming Windows Phone 7, he’s also done a quick port of the application for Windows Phone 7. Details here.
In the Microsoft MVP conference interview series on The Office Blog, PowerPoint MVP Geetesh Bajaj from India describes a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 that has been long requested by customers: the ability to turn your slides into a video.
Using his own colorful vacation photos, Geetesh demonstrates the few steps required to take a set of slides and produce a movie out of them, replete with dynamic transitions. The video format gives your slides instant versatility,making them easy to share on a media site or copy to a DVD for watching on TV.
Geetesh is a PowerPoint designer and expert. He's the author of Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 for Dummies and Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies and co-author with Echo Swinford of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit . Visit his popular PowerPoint site, Indezine, and get original templates on his ppted.com site.
(via The Office Blog)
Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Mumbai, India – Manan Kakkar, has authored a comprehensive guide to using VHDs, Windows Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode and ISOs on Windows 7 on his blog.
Check the complete guide here. Also check another Windows Desktop Experience MVP – Nitin Agarwal’s post on using Windows XP Mode without hardware virtualization in Windows 7 here.