I received THE email this morning from my MVP Lead: “Dear Albert Pascual, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way to say thank you for promoting the spirit of community and improving people’s lives and the industry’s success every day...

It's 6 AM and I found myself the last 2 years working in a project that we were talking on the ASP.NET MVP "table" last night. A hole in Twitter when people were trying to find me. Geo Twitter. I purchased the domain and I'll be working in adding a MAP to twitter so you can attach your message...

First day was busier than I thought, met lots of familiar names from the ASP.NET and Microsoft. Great day, I saw the people from Telligent 3 times on the Westin lobby! ASP.NET MVPS Having dinner with Darrell ASP.NET MVP and moderator. Big dinner for Microsoft. Seattle lights. See you all tomorrow. I...

Finally I am here at Sunny Seattle. Never been to Seattle when there is sunshine, please let me know if anybody sees any. You must take a picture to prove it. I don't think the streets of Seattle have seen the sun. I created a twitter account so you can find me around the conference/campus. http://twitter...

With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because it still...

From my article on Page Modules some people might have gotten the wrong impression that this would be the only way to get a reference to the page given its path, but it isn't. You can use the System.Web.UI.PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance method to get the reference to the page before calling the System...

I get lots of questions on how to become an MVP, so I thought I'd make a blog entry about it. My most recent inquiry involved asking how to "obtain the Microsoft MVP Certification". I always enjoy requests like this, because they tell me people are excited about Microsoft Products and technologies and...

Well, it's that time of year again when the MVP's from around the UK and Ireland come together for a conference on the MVP program and to network with one another. On Friday I was up very early for my three and a half hour commute down to Reading from Manchester. The traffic was fantastic, I arrived...

The MVP Summit 2009 is over, yet the message still echoes in my ears … NDA!! ;-) The key word if you followed the summit by using Twitter search at #mvp09 was NDA and none of the MVPs violated it. Microsoft shared their technology and future vision of their products with the MVPs and took feedback on...

This is my first blog post for new year 2011 and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers for making my blog very successful and accepting me a community member. As year 2010 has lots of up down in IT filed it was recession period and now we almost recovered from it. Personally...