Ravikanth Chaganti, a Windows PowerShell MVP from Bangalore, India, has authored an ebook - WMI Query Language via PowerShell – which has been very popular, and is available as a free download.

The ebook has 9 chapters (56 pages of WMI and PowerShell goodness) and here is the high-level content outline:

1. Introduction
2. Tools for the job
3. WMI Data queries
4. WMI Event Queries: Introduction
5. Intrinsic Event Queries
6. Extrinsic Event Queries
7. Timer Events
8. WMI Schema Queries
9. WMI Event consumers

Details and Download

Anoop Madhusudnan, a Client App Development MVP from India, has collated some of his comprehensive and popular blog posts on C#, and published an ebook – Revisiting C#.

This book is intended to be a value adding reading material for beginner to intermediate C# programmers. It may also be used for accelerating the learning about new and upcoming features in C#, and also to get an introduction about new libraries in .NET. You may find random articles and alternate perspectives related to various aspects of C# - ranging from delegates, lambdas, fluent interfaces, dynamic features etc. with practical examples.

The ebook is available for online reading and as a download for free here.

Abhishek Sur, the Client App Development MVP from Kolkata, India, has authored a series of posts on his blog delving deep into internals of C# ad ADO.NET.

Check out these very useful posts, and share them with your communities.

• Internals of LINQ
• Internals of Events
• Internals of Anonymous Method
• Internals of Exception Handling
• Internals of C# iterators
• Internals to Convert and Cast
• Internals to C# loops
• Internals to Extension Methods
• Internals to Delegates

ADO .NET internals: Part 1 | Part 2

The Microsoft user groups and MVPs across several cities in India are hosting Windows Azure Camp – a 1-day deep dive session designed to help you speed up on developing for Windows Azure. The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud-computing platform that lets your customers focus on solving their business problems.

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• The event is FREE; on first come first serve basis
• Total number of available seats: 30
• Attendees need to bring their own laptops with internet data card for hands-on labs & access to Windows Azure.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Azure and overview of its features
• Building a simple Web application and deploying to Azure
• Azure storage options include SQL Azure
• Hands on Labs on Azure
• Overview and quick demo of Windows Azure App Fabric

Register Here

Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognize the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year. To know more about the MVP Program, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp

We are extremely happy to welcome the following new MVPs amongst our midst for this quarter:

Congratulations to all the MVP awardees, and the renewed MVPs, for this prestigious award! We are glad to have Sameer, the first Xbox MVP from India, back in the fold and Gouri, wife of another MVP – Subodh Sohoni – amongst us!