Consumer Security MVP Mike Burgess's Hosts file continues to lead the fight against malware and security threats from around the world. The internet can be a harsh place to surf, but Mike’s Hosts file for Windows, can be used to block ads, banners, 3rd...

Russian MVP Dmitry Sotnikov has developed a user interface (UI) application for Microsoft PowerShell called PowerGUI . The UI application is built on top of Windows PowerShell and Dmitry’s application brings PowerShell to users who are more comfortable...

Congratulations to Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) MVP, Julie Yack and Microsoft ASP.NET MVP David Yack who recently co-launched a virtual Microsoft Dynamics user group called XRMVirtual . The XRM (X=Anything Relationship Management...

Congratulations to French MVP Michel Martin , who recently developed a new Social Network called the eFriends Network ! The eFriends Network allows its users to create groups, which can be used to share web links, podcasts, music and other media with...

Kicking off our series of features of MVPs at Tech Ed North America , I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel Nerenberg, App-V MVP from Montreal, Canada. Among the many things he’ll be doing at Tech Ed, he’ll be one of the resident experts at the Springboard...

MVP Laurent Duveau recently delivered a Silverlight talk at the Montreal .NET Community . During his presentation he built a Silverlight application from scratch using Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend technologies!  Laurent also demoed: Entity...

MVP Thierry Bouquain is the creator of the Silverlight Extensions project on CodePlex . During the recent 2009 MVP Global Summit , Thierry met fellow Client Application development MVP Page Brooks . Thierry discovered that Page had a developed a similar...

Microsoft Spain continues to offer a wide choice of events that focus on corporate security. The topics cover different aspects of IT security such as server and mobile security, data center security, data recovery and hardware productivity among others...

2009 is the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press! To celebrate, Microsoft Press are offering free e-books to readers. April’s e-books are now available (links below) and the first e-book features Canadian MVP Charlie Russel . Windows Small Business Server...

Visual C# MVP Tim Dawson has developed SandRibbon , the world's first full-featured implementation of Office 2007’s “ribbon” user interface for Silverlight web applications. SandRibbon fully supports all levels of automatic resizing with buttons, galleries...

German Mobile Application Development MVP, Peter Nowak provides free chapters of his unpublished book regarding programming with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. Click on the links below to download individual chapters of the book. Please note the chapters...

MVP Zach Wigal of Gamers Outreach Foundation recently hosted the second annual 'Gamers for Giving' event at Eastern Michigan University where over 1000 participants helped raise $18,000 to benefit University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital. In...

Irish MVP Aidan Finn recently published a Hyper-V whitepaper on his blog . The ‘ Introduction to Hyper-V’ whitepaper provides the reader with an introduction to Hyper-V and hypervisor virtualisation.  Since he uploaded the document, Aidan’s site...

Indonesian Windows Desktop MVP Tutang MM recently produced an e-book entitled “Step-By-Step Windows 7 ” This free ebook briefly explains Windows 7 starting from the installation process, introduction of new features, Windows 7 network, security, and others...

Windows Embedded MVP Thierry Joubert , recently presented as “Embedded Expert” and MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) Trainer at a conference organized at the Technifutur Center in Liege, Belgium. This was the 3 rd year of the conference and Thierry presented...