While you can find several resources and getting started guides on Silverlight on the Web, Dhaval Faria (ASP.NET MVP from Mumbai, India) and Vikram Pendse (Silverlight MVP from Pune, India) have authored useful articles on oppurtunities with Silverlight 4.

You can learn how to develop Silverlight navigation menu using C# in Visual Studio 2008 with Dhaval and read about the COM Interop opportunities and Indic Support with Silverlight 4 as seen by Vikram.

HimaBindu Vejella, an ASP.NET MVP from Hyderabad, India, has been on a blogging overdrive since she saw Visual Studio 2010 on her horizon.

While she detailed VS2010 RC1 installation steps on her blog and several other tips and tricks, she has recently published three comprehensive articles on DotNetSlackers.

In the three articles, Hima explains IDE enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

Sharad Kumar, a SharePoint Server MVP from Bangalore, India, has authored a three part series on SharePoint forms.

The series features three comprehensive articles where he details customization of out-of-the-box SharePoint list forms as well as the server-side approach for the same, and introduces field validations.

TechEd Sri Lanka was held at Waters Edge, Colombo last month and SQL Server MVP from India, Pinal Dave, was a speaker for two sessions at the very successful event.

• The Other Side of SQL Server Index : Advanced Solutions to Ancient Problem (Rating 8.9)
• The history of the Log: Change Data Capture (CDC) (Rating 7.8)

Both the sessions received above average feedback. Some of the verbatim comments are:

• I got massive knowledge from there. Superb.
• Brilliant effort taken to educate us… surely gonna make my life easier at office!! The best presenter is this person.
• Presentation was very interesting and would be able to gather the points he talk easily.
• Great demo and presentation, cool stuffs.

During his visit to Sri Lanka, Pinal also met MVPs from Sri Lanka and attended the Sri Lanka SQL Server User Group meeting.

Read Pinal’s post about the same on his blog.

Get Recognized as MVP [Video]

In this Edge video by South Asia MVP Lead, Abhishek Kant, learn more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Explore why the MVP Award enhances your reputation and knowledge. Know the benefits, the criteria for getting selected as an MVP and how to apply for the award.

Know more about the MVP program in India