After Rahul Nathan’s efforts in Mandya and Mysore region of Karnataka with MY-TUG (MandYa/MYsore Technology User Group), another MVP – Vasu Jain – is helping build community in his home town, Meerut. On October 30, 2010, he organized a Windows Phone 7 Preview event targeted both at consumers and hobbyist developers (Meerut has a huge student population, so those should be a large number).

The event went very successful and was covered in local edition of the leading national Hindi daily – Hindustan. With MVPs in Dehradun, Siliguri, and towns in Kerela managing user groups and communities, the diversity and the reach of their evangelism is tremendous, and not just limited to bigger cities or Microsoft speakers.

Joydip Kanjilal, the ASP.NET MVP from India, can easily be called a serial author. With several popular .NET books to his credit, his latest - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One – has just been published by Wrox.

This hands-on guide, written with the experienced .NET developer in mind, is broken into six parts so that you can quickly locate the content you need regarding the following topics: Visual Studio, .NET 4, ASP.NET 4, VB. NET, C#, and finally, F# and other .NET languages. Detailed examples and summary chapters help you identify new features so that you can quickly acquire an understanding of the functionality they provide.

The expansive coverage serves as a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio and .NET:

• Focuses on the new and important features of the latest version Microsoft's core programming platform-.NET 4-as well as Visual Studio 2010, which allows you to write .NET 4 applications
• Provides comprehensive coverage divided into six parts: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, ASP.NET, the C# language, the VB.NET language, and the new F# language
• Discusses Visual Studio snippets and templates, .NET charting components, the .NET framework and WPF, LINQ, and the Entity framework
• Explores various aspects of Visual Basic 2010, such as multi-line lambdas, auto-implemented properties, nullable optional parameters, and more

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One

Paperback: 1272 pages | Publisher: Wrox | ISBN-10: 0470499486 | ISBN-13: 978-0470499481

Joydip has authored the following books before:

• ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing)
• Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing)
• Pro Sync Framework (APRESS)
• Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing)
• ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing)

Vivek Thangaswamy, an MVP from India, has co-authored System Analysis and Design with his brother Arun Thangaswamy, published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. This is Vivek’s second published book.

Every organization requires Information system to excel and survive in this highly competitive world. This highly complex and sophisticated Information system is build with the help of systems analysts and the system users. This book targets the student community who are the future systems analyst. This book is targeted for the audience who are new to the field of System Analysis and Design of computer systems.

ISBN-13: 978-3-8433-6237-5 | ISBN-10: 3843362378 | EAN: 9783843362375

Microsoft has released a two-hour course - Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 – via Microsoft Learning, which has been authored by an MVP and a popular Visual Studio trainer from India - Subodh Sohoni. This two-hour course provides an overview of the features and tools that are part of Visual Studio Test Professional 2010.

10530AE - Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010

Abhishek Bhatnagar, the new Windows Desktop Experience MVP from India, has authored several tips and tricks articles on Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, etc. as Microsoft announced the latest version of Windows Live suite – Windows Live Essentials 2011.

• Windows Live Messenger
• Windows Live Writer
• Windows Live Hotmail
• Windows Live Sync
• Windows Live Photo Gallery