Editor’s note: The following post was written by ASP.NET MVP Lohith Nagaraj Detecting Network Connection in Windows Store Apps Overview : If you developing a Windows Store Apps, it’s a possible likelihood that you rely on some sort of service to either get data or store...

1. ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Features - Strongly-Typed Data Controls By Silverlight MVP Dan Wahlin – @ DanWahlin 2. [Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract By Client App Dev Jonathan Antoine – @ jmix90 3. Connect a Test Controller to Team Foundation...

1. Deploying Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 on Azure – Introduction By Dynamics GP MVP Mariano Gomez - @dgpblogster 2. [Windows (Phone) 8] Using SignalR in Windows (Phone) 8 apps! BY Client App Dev MVP Thomas Lebrun - @thomas_lebrun 3. FriendlyURL : A new and exciting feature...

1. Learn Windows Store App Development in 31 Days By ASP.NET/IIS MVP Karthikeyan Anbarasan - @ f5Debug 2. DBIMPEXP.exe functionality integrated into Lync 2013 Preview Management Shell By Exchange Server MVP Elan Shudnow – @ ElanShudnow 3. Lync Edge Stun Turn By Lync MVP Jeff Schertz - @ jdscher 4. Choosing...

1.  Using PowerShell to Control RDS in Windows Server 2012 By Virtual Machine MVP Freek Berson - @fberson 2. LASG 1.0.0.6 for VS 2012 and 2010 By Windows Azure MVP – Serena Yeoh 3. How to use Windows Azure Profiling Tools in Visual Studio By ASP.NET MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo 4. IIS Authentication...

How long have you been an MVP? I was in the first group of Hungarian MVPs in 2004. How did you first start in community? At the dawn of .NET in 2001, Microsoft Hungary organized several developer events, and they asked our team at the Technical University of Budapest to provide experts for technical...

How long have you been an MVP? 1 year How did you first start in community? Have been working on MS technologies for 12 years Which technical community or communities are you most active in (where can people find you)? Provide links if necessary Personal Blog: http://www.soulier.ch/ ...

We're highlighting some great posts we've seen that our MVP Awardees write over the past few weeks. This week concentrates on Windows Azure, Visual C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server! 1. Exceeding the SLA-It's About Resilience By Windows Azure MVP Brent Stineman | @brentcodemonkey Brent walks through...

We're running the gamut in this week's blog collection, ranging from Microsoft Excel and Windows Phone Development to Windows Azure and Microsoft Project. Want your blog posts highlighted in future editions of the Friday Five? Share your favorite blog posts with your Community Program Manager and we...

We're going a little more international with our blog authors this week to give you a feel for what our worldwide MVPs are talking about. 1. Here's What's Right With Windows 8 By ASP.NET MVP Chris Love | @chrislove Provides Chris's perspective on the approach taken with Windows 8. 2. HDFS...

We’ve scoured the MVP blogosphere and selected some great posts which highlight some great tips, how-to’s and insight. 1. Limiting the Accessibility- Another Way of Friend Assemblies By ASP.NET/IIS MVP BrijMishra | @brij_bhushan In this post, Brij walks us through another way of...

Editor's Note: On September 13, 2011 Microsoft will kick off its first ever Build event. To toast this, the MVP Award Program blog will run a special developer series for the next few weeks for our MVP Mondays. The following is the first of this series, a guest post by Visual FoxPro MVP John Petersen...

In the latest episode of the Connected Show podcast, listen to MVP Milan Negovan discuss health monitoring in ASP.NET and what to do when things go wrong! (Starts at 24:47). Microsoft’s Peter Laudati (Developer Evangelist) and Dmitry Lyalin (Microsoft Consulting Services) also discuss Eclipse support...

Watch MVP Mihai Tataran discuss his offline community contributions with Karen Young. He blogs about upcoming Romanian community events at HPC Consulting and CodeCamp.ro Technorati Tags: MVP Award Program , MVP Mihai Tataran , TechEd Europe 2009 , #TEE09 Share this post :

Sri Lankan ASP.NET MVP Fiqri Ismail , recently produced a series of webcasts to explain the ASP.NET MVC Framework in the Sri Lankan local language, Sinhalese. The goal is to provide a series of training videos to technical audiences, who are not fluent in the English Language. Fiqri, has already created...

ASP.NET MVP Suprotim Agarwal , maintains the popular developer portals – dotNetCurry , DevCurry , and SQLServerCurry , has recently announced his new eBook – 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls . The eBook is the result of his practical experience of using jQuery with ASP...

  ASP.NET MVP José Alarcón has just released a new book entitled “Tecnologías ASP.NET 4.0 (saltando desde la version 2.0)” with Krasis Press . (Translated as “ASP.NET 4.0 Technologies - jumping from ASP.NET 2.0). The book’s main focus is AJAX applications, including all client-side data binding...

  Indonesian ASP.NET MVP M. Reza Faisal recently contributed to two chapters of an ebook entitled ‘ ASP.NET & jQuery : Write jQuery with Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 & Glimmer .’ The first of Reza’s chapters looks at JavaScript, and in particular an introduction to jQuery, using Visual...

    Welcome to ReMix Australia! Five Australian MVPs, delivered sessions in early June reaching out to approximately 300 delegates.  This year’s event had two streams, Technical and Designer, and the total audience of 600 was evenly split between the two tracks on the day. Other MVPs...

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) User Group is designed for the professional...

Be a part of Microsoft history and join developers from all over the world for the first ever 24-hour day of technology learning. Participate in 95 live sessions anywhere, at anytime or on-demand at your convenience. The 24 hour event started on Tuesday, March 31 st in Redmond, Washington with more than...

  Join China MVP Lead Eddie Liu as he interviews MVP Cheng Zhang , a Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Shanghai. Cheng Zhang focuses on Windows desktop operating systems and likes to share his knowledge with the technical community.  He attended Summit this year to learn more about Windows...

  Watch Canadian MVP Lead Sasha Krsmanovic interview MVP D’Arcy Lussier from Winnipeg. D’Arcy is an ASP.NET Developer and is an active member of a number of user groups including http://www.dotnetwired.com . D’Arcy is also a contributor to INETA , The International .NET Association. Learn more about...

  Join French MVP Lead Aurore Bonnal, as she interviews MVP Michel Martin . Michel is a Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Paris. He has a keen interest in Windows Vista and maintains a blog at: http://www.vista-unlimited.com . Michel is also a keen video podcaster and publishes 2-3 new episodes...

  See US MVP Lead Jake Grey interview MVP John Kellar . John is a Visual C# MVP from Nashville, Tennessee. He shares with us the best things about being an MVP. John also runs the Devlink technical conference.     Watch US MVP Lead Suzanna Moran interview MVP Paul Litwin . Paul is an ASP...