1. Simple Validation with MVVM for Windows Store apps By Silverlight MVP Jeremy Likness – @jeremylikness 2. Demystifying Microsoft’s Git Offering By Visual Studio ALM MVP Jeff Bramwell – @jbramwell 3. TechEd 2013: A tale of two Surfaces and a fire sale By System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management...

Editor’s note:  The following blog post was written by Silverlight MVP Chris Klug Ok, so I have just been at my first TechEd keynote on the northern hemisphere and probably my 50th keynote all in all…and to be honest, it doesn’t get that much better… And by that, I don’t mean that keynotes don’t...

1. Configuring Power View Connectivity to Multidimensional By SQL Server MVP Teo Lachev– @tlachev 2. Building an HTML5 Web Sockets Server with Node.js By Silverlight MVP Dan Wahlin – @DanWahlin   3. Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC: Part 4, Dependency Injection (Parts 1-3 covered Getting Started, Repositories...

1. Using Bit Fields in C# By Visual C# MVP Filip Ekberg - @fekberg 2. Top 5 Tips & Tricks for Surviving TechEd 2013 By Silverlight MVP Michael Crump - @mbcrump 3. Comments and Descriptions in DAX By SQL Server MVP Chris Webb - @technitrain 4. Method Overloading...

1. How to turn ON/OFF the Microsoft Two-Step Verification? By Silverlight MVP Kunal Chowdhury - @kunal2383 2. Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2-routing, route details, tombstoning-and testing By Windows Phone Development MVP Joost van Schaik - @LocalJoost 3. Clash of the Clouds...

1 . Generate a Windows Phone 8 Local Database DataContext from an Existing Database By SQL Server MVP Erik Jensen 2. Creating an Offline Web Platform Installer for Service Bus 1.0 By Visual Studio ALM MVP Ryan Crommwell 3. Fetching Windows Azure Mobile Services Data in XAML based...

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. What you need to know about IMAP accounts in Outlook 2013 By Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky 2. How to Set a Default Template in PowerPoint 2013 By PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford 3. How to Share a Media File from WP8 using the ShareMediaTask By Silverlight MVP Kunal Chowdhury 4. Cool Feature in Windows Phone...

1. Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server By ASP.NET/IIS MVP Peter Kellner 2. Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight By Windows Phone Development MVP Joost van Schaik - @LocalJoost 3. Asynchronous Commands in Windows...

  1. C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Parallel.Invoke() Method By Visual C# James Michael Hare – @ BlkRabbitCoder 2. Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 4 – Load Distribution By Virtual Machine MVP Aidan Finn – @ joe_elway 3. Splash Screens in Windows Phone 8–Who moved my cheese? By Silverlight MVP...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Silverlight MVP Jeremy Likness The end of October 2012 marked a major set of milestones for Microsoft’s mobile computing story. Consumers learned about the availability of Windows 8 just days before the details about Windows Phone...

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. Use Windows Forms Controls to Make Multiple Stacked Expanders in C# By Visual Basic MVP Rod Stephens 2. How to Set Up Hyper-V Replica for Small Businesses By Small Business Server MVP Boon Tee 3. Location Awareness in about 2 Minutes with Windows 8–HTML By Silverlight MVP Michael Crump – @ mbcrump...

1. Reasons for Moving from Gmail/POP to Office 365 By Virtual Machine MVP Anil Desai - @AnilDesai 2.  Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Formatting Cell Contents as Invisible By Excel MVP Tom Utris - @TomUrtis 3.  Importing Azure Marketplace Data into Excel 2013 with Web Queries By SQL MVP Chris Webb...

The following post was written by Silverlight MVP Michael Crump This Sunday I will depart to Orlando, FL to attend TechEd 2012 which is Microsoft’s premier technology conference for IT Professionals and Developers. This is my first TechEd that I have had the chance of attending and I will be...

1. SDK 1.5 is Out By Dynamics MVP Jivtesh  - @jivtesh This article covers the v1.5 release of SDK. 2.  Learn About Windows Azure and Chat with Experts, June 7th . By Windows Azure MVP Michael Wood – @mikewo This article details an upcoming event which discusses what’s up and coming with Windows...

May the 4th be with you! This week's post cover everything from Outlook and Forefront to Big Data and C++. Enjoy! Big Data: The Billable Project Angle By Visual Basic MVP Andrew Brust | @andrewbrust Tellago CEO Jesus Rodriguez discusses the consulting project opportunities in Big Data and...

German Client App Dev MVP Gregor Biswanger came back from the 2011 Global Summit with a special souvenir—a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 and Silverlight 4 DVD package signed by the WPF, Silverlight and Expression Blend product teams so that he could put it up for auction on eBay to support...

New Zealand MVP Chris Auld was interviewed about Ticket Direct's Silverlight kiosk platform that he helped develop. Ticket Direct is New Zealand's major entertainment ticket distribution company. They needed a new platform for ticket sales kiosks to be installed in New Zealand's "big box" stores. In...

Silverlight MVP, Eric Ambrosi has written a book called “Pratique de Silverlight” about design elements of Silverlight applications, starting from the display list, to loading external data in the design model MVVM through prototyping or organizational workflow. The “Pratique de Silverlight” is written...

  Watch MVP Gill Cleeren interview MVP Daron Yondem , as they discuss how Silverlight provides a rich user experience through the new Multitouch features in Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. As Daron explains, Multitouch can be used both in entertainment and business scale applications. Watch the...

In this interview, listen to MVP Laurent Bugnion discuss his Silverlight contributions with Karen Young. Learn more about Laurent, by his visiting his blog . Technorati Tags: MVP Award Program , MVP Laurent Bugnion , TechEd Europe 2009 , #TEE09 Share this post :  

  Watch Siliverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion discuss how he is helping out at the Siliverlight booth, in the Technical Learning Center at TechEd Europe. In this video, he discusses how he became involved in I.T. and what he loves about it. Learn more about Laurent’s community contributions by his visiting...

In October, Malaysian MVP Ngan  Seok Chern hosted and facilitated a two day Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) boot camp, for forty Microsoft Student Partners (MSP). The boot camp is an annual program that gathers new MSPs from different university/colleges from across Malaysia, and they are provided...

Visual C# MVP Yongguang Zhu is a .NET Speaker, author and is the .NET Lead Editor for InfoQ China . As the vice-chairman and the core lecturer for Chengdu .NET club, he helps to organise technical sessions for the .NET club developers.  Yongguang has published several Silverlight articles in Chinese...