My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived :) Either...

This week I'll be at Seattle for the MVP Global Summit event. This is my first time in Seattle, first MVP Summit, first time to meet Bill Gates, first time on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, this should be a blast! Microsoft has booked 7 hotels in Seattle to welcome 1700 MVPs from all around the...

As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000” into the title of the book, as it would...

Blogging has been something I've wanted to do for quite a while now. Thanks to Scott Watermasysk and ASP.NET, I'm finally going to be able to do it, and in great company. A little about me first. I just recently finished an assignment at Microsoft as a Program Manager for Visual Studio setup team. I...

Last weekend the managers of Dotnetusergroup - Hyderabad had a nice meeting at Hotel Green Park . Lot of community issues were discussed and took some resolutions to promote DNUG hyd to a good level. Ravikanth [MVP], Suresh [MVP] and Jaffer [Community Star] shared some valuable suggestions and concerns...

I just received word that I’ve been awarded with the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET for 2009. I’ve been a Microsoft MVP since 2003. It’s always nice to receive the MVP award, but it’s even better to see the impact that you have on the community. Six years ago, Northeastern Pennsylvania had no user group...

I recently took a couple of sessions on IIS 7 & 7.5 as part of Hyderabad Techies and "Tech-Ed on the Road" revival campaign here in Hyderabad, India. It was great to see the enthusiasm people had for different Microsoft technologies. We had sessions ranging from ASP.NET - Windows Azure...

Hey Everybody, Community TechDays India is back and with loads of action. And why is that? Because, it is in 11 Cities with 19 insightful Technical Sessions. I would be participating in the event that is being held in Hyderabad, A.P, India. I will be taking a session on IIS 7.5 Administration with Windows...

Hello everyone, Today, I’d like to present you my entry for the MIX 10K Coding Challenge . For those who don’t know this challenge, the rules are really simple. You have to submit an application whose the source code’s size is less than 10 kilobytes. The technologies allowed are Silverlight, HTML5 and...

Hi everyone, I just created a multiplayer turn-based online game and I'm looking for a Silverlight graphist to realize the design of the game itself and of the hosting website (room, room chat, in-game chat...). The game is 90% completed but I cant publish it as is, I need a good graphist for making...