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Cleared MCPD – 70-547

I have cleared the Microsoft exam that I wrote today – 70-547. So that makes me a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. Yippee!!!

Will post the logo as soon as my results are updated.

Getting Started with Animation in Silverlight

The audience which the web was catering to, has drastically changed in the last 10 years. From primary being a one way of source of information for its users, the web has evolved into a massive aggregator with which users can both create and consume information. This meant a sea change for web developers and [...]

Creating RIA – Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight 3 includes support for creating Rich Internet Applications with virtually no code at all. In this article, I will create a simple RIA application which displays data from the SQL Server 2005 AdventureWorks database. For those who are wondering what RIA services are? Its a pattern which integrates ASP.NET with Silverlight and provides [...]

Microsoft Silverlight applications on GoDaddy

Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, used to display multimedia, animation and graphics in Internet applications. Its a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation and uses a vector graphics rendering engine to deliver much better graphics than conventional web images.

With each release Microsoft is working on bringing Silverlight and WPF closer to each other. [...]

Windows Azure: A customer perspective

Though Azure has been a “hot” word for nearly an year now, I didnt really look into it much. Sure everyone was talking about Cloud Computing and how it would define the web in the years to come, but there was no motivation for me to go and dive head first into Azure. That motivation [...]

Microsoft Tech Days 2009 Kicks off!!!

Microsoft Tech Days officially kicked off today at my workplace in Bangalore, India. The event inauguration was done with the traditional lamp lighting by Stephen Elop, President, Business Solution Division, Microsoft. My Company’s joint CEO was present for the inaugration as well.

There are more than 50 sessions lined up and the faculty are [...]

Microsoft TechDays in India coming up!!!

Microsoft is conducting a three day TechDays Event at work from November 4th to 6th. A wide range of topics will be covered including latest Microsoft technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio TS 2010, Exchange Server 2010, Sharepoint 2010, Silverlight and Azure among others.

I immediately nominated myself for it lest the [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 retail – 20% cheaper in India. No news yet for OEM

Windows 7

Microsoft has finally announed the pricing of retail versions of its newest operating system Windows 7 in India. The software giant has kept the price 20% lower than other regions in an attempt to tackle piracy.

There is bad news though, because Microsoft has a tax dispute with Indian customs over the [...]