Search MVPs and use short profile URLs

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All MVPs now have greater visibility through the MVP community home page. It's cool to have our profiles in the public, endorsed by MS.

Some functionality is missing on the site, however. First and foremost, the URLs provided are clearly unsuitable for email signatures, newsgroup posts, etc. Imagine my signature with this url:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/mvp/mvpdetails.mspx?Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22guid%22+Value%3d%222d3626a6-dede-4abd-9e59-aa4807125a47%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e
Ruined, completely. So, instead of complaining about how bad it is, we've provided short URLs for all profiles visible through the MVP Community site. You just use your name as it appears on that site, without spaces, with the following format: http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?DanielCazzulino or
http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?VictorGarciaAprea.

Alternatively, you can write us (webmaster at NO aspnet2 SPAM dot PLZ com) to add an alias for your link too, such as: http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?donxml or http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?olegt.

Finally, and almost as important, we've also provided search functionality. If you just go to http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx, or pass a non-existent MVP name or alias, you can search for the MVP you are looking for, even in a particular category.
If you just made your profile public and want this "database" to be updated with your profile, just send an email to webmaster at NO aspnet2 SPAM dot PLZ com

I hope this is useful to all MVPs, as well as those looking for a guy with recognized expertise in a particular technology. It's already useful to me for sure!
Daniel Cazzulino [MVP XML]

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