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February 2009 - Posts

VS.NET 2010 UI sneak peak

Find below , a post from Jason Zander with some screen shots

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

 

Looking forward to playing with the beta when its out

Posted: Feb 25 2009, 10:34 AM by Jeev | with no comments
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70-565 - Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Looks like Prometric has published the results for the Beta exam,noticed it appear on my transcript and the prometric website and I'm glad that I cleared it :-)

2 more exams to go  for MCPD EAD 3.5

Posted: Feb 25 2009, 10:28 AM by Jeev | with 1 comment(s)
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MCP Profiles & Directory.. Where did they go??

Just yesterday , I was trying to look up some one on the MCP directory (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/directory/default.mspx)

and noticed that the link no longer works . Searched around the MCP landing page and still could not find the directory.

Another feature that was also missing was the MCP Profiles page that was rolled out in early 2008  and gave the ability for MCP's to have a community profile like MVP's .

( link to the blog post from Georgeo announcing it http://blogs.msdn.com/mcp/archive/2007/10/18/mcp-2008-recognition-respect-and-reward.aspx)

Did any one else notice this? Did they get scrapped? Haven't seen any official announcement to this effect though.

If any one knows where they currently exist, drop me an email / a comment

Update 02/12/2009

I got an answer from Sarah Grant at Microsoft .Reproduced below

"Yes, the reason you cannot update your profile is that we found very few people used it and was not making the impact in the community we wished.  It was announced that it would retire in December - and it did"

70-563 Designing and Developing Windows Applications using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Was checking my transcript today and  found out that I cleared this exam during its beta offering in the month of October. I could not give 70-505( the TS exam) because of a schedule conflict. Hope to give 70-505  one of these days schedule permitting :-)

Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals ( world wide)

I was just asked by some folks today if there was a page that lists the number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, hence posting the link to the page

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx

This page has been there for quite some time now

Posted: Feb 02 2009, 02:39 PM by Jeev | with no comments
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