TechMela 2007 , Agenda

Moving ahead with my blog entries on TechMela 2007, below is the Agenda for the same on Day 14,15 and 16th Respectively. Click on the below image to get more clearer view

No TechEd 2007 this time in India, TechMela Aka TechED 2007

On 28th April, I have blogged a post about TechEd 2007 dates in which i mention about the techEd, happening in Mumbai from June 13. To know more about that posts, click Here .To get more curious, one of the bad news is that this time, there will be no Tech Ed 2007 across cities in India. The TechEd has been wrapped with a new name called TechMela and this TechMela is happening in only one location in India i.e. Mumbai. It seems Microsoft have done it to make the TechMela a huge success and to bring the Indian IT mass in one location. This TechMela is divided into 2 zones.

1. for Business Users, its on 13th June
2. for Technology users, its on 14,15and 16th June

Click here to register for TechMela

Not sure, if its going to be a good success. For the people, who are living in other locations apart from mumbai, there is something good. Well not good as TechEd alias TechMela, Just keep an eye on my blog. I am going to blog it soon !!!

Hotmail Gets bigger

Now hotmail is as bigger as 2 GB. Though most of the existing hotmail user might be using it from the beta versions, but for the email users, its a news. if you haven't upgraded your account till now, Click here to upgrade

TechEd 2007 Dates

Tech Ed 2007 dates have been published now and its going to happen in May end- June 2007 all over india. The dates for Tech Ed to happen in Mumbai is been revealed to be June 13-16 2007. still the dates on other places of India is yet to be finalized. More information about Tech Ed 2007 can be available by clicking Tech ED

Office 2003 compatibility with Office 2007 docs

As if now, today's generations of IP professionals are working on two versions of Ms Office

1. MS Office 2003
2. MS Office 2007

There are numerous benefits of using office 2007 and you can really experience only when you download and work on office 2007 docs. Now if you see the documents creates using office 2007, they have the extensions of office 2003 docs preceded by "x" character. for e.g. Docx, Xlsx etc. The problems of sending these documents to the Office 2003 camps professionals is that they are unable to open the documents. So generally office 2007 camps professional used to save it in the office 2003 format and then send the docs. Though this is still available a better option is to ask the colleague to download Office compatibility pack that’ll allow you to open these documents in Office 2003.

To Download the compatibility pack , click here

I hope it now saves a life of lot of office 2007 camps

Offline links for WCF webcasts

I am back on the blog and to all the people who are intrested in viewing the offline view of my webcasts that i delivered last week for Microsoft India, here are the link

1. Beginning on WCF
2. Securing services with WCF
3. Programming with WCF
4. Understanding endpoints with WCF
5. Implemention Service Oriented architecture by WCF

It was quite nice to get in touch with lot of passionate developers,who have some familiar and unfamilaiar questions about WCF.

Webcasts on Windows Communication Foundation

I will be delivering webcast series on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) this month. The webcasts are schedule back to back from 26th march – 30th March 2007 from 4 PM to 5 PM IST

26th - Beginning with WCF
27th - Implementing Service Oriented Architecture through WCF
28th - Understanding Endpoints with WCF
29th - Programming with WCF
30th - Securing services with WCF

All the 5 webcasts are open for registrations on Microsoft site


hope to see many of the blog readers online :)

Orcas Latest CTP

Latest CTP of Orcas delivered today and can be downloaded by clicking here



it contains a lot of cool stuff like

1. WCF/WF designer
2. ATLAS integration
3. and lots of enhanced feature for WCF like templates for authoring WCF service, Enhanced REST/Pox Model etc

and many more

SQL Server 2005 SP2 released

Microsoft has announced release of SQL Sevrer 2005 Service Pack 2. To download the Service Pack 2 version click on download
New features of Service Pack2 can be seen by clicking
here

Sample chapter uploaded

The first chapter of my book, Introducing Service Oriented Architechture is been uploaded in Apress Site as sample chapter

click on Chapter 1 to download

Got the Books

Though i was very busy in my current work schedule, and i really miss the opportunity to blog. Finally, i want to start it with sharing a good news. Last feek i got the hard copies of the book, that recently i have co-authored. It was very soothing to have a touch and feel. Though book has been published world wide last month itself, it might take few more months to hit Indian Market. The book is avalable at APress, BarnesAndNoble,Amazon and BookPool. You can get down to it through the below links

Link to Book on Apress
Link to Barnesandnoble for Purchase
Link to Amazon for Purchase
Link to Bookpool for Purchase

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Unleashed

couple of days earlier, much awaited service pack 1 of Visual Studio 2005 was released. There are somewhere around 400 issues that have been taken care in this release and all of them can be available at http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio/content/content.aspx?contentid=4324
If you want to download the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 ..click on this

Me being Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

On eve of new year, i got a great news to share. I got myself lucky to be among the elite group of an Most Valuable Professional(MVP). MVPs is the award that is given to technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing real world expertise with users and Microsoft. I had just thought to update my MVP profile and can be accessed through MVP Profile. My name has also been updated in Indian MVP List