Joydip Kanjilal's Technology Corner

Community - Credit Winner Again!

Hi All,

I have been selected as a Community Credit Winner for April, 2009 at www.community-credit.com. My heartiest thanks to David Silverlight!

Best,

Joydip

Received the MVP Award Trophy Today!

Hi All,

I received the MVP Award Trophy today. It's amazing! My heartiest thanks to Microsoft for this and to Abhishek Kant (Microsoft) in particular for his continued support and inspiration.

Cheers,

Joydip

Be a MVP - be recognized!

Hello Friends,

The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is an annual award that is given to outstanding members of Microsoft's peer-to-peer communities, and is based on the past year's contributions those members make in those communities online and offline. The Most Valuable Professional Program offers MVPs the opportunity to Learn, Access, Share and Connect with the most significant technical resources in the industry. The MVPs are awarded through a nomination period where their past year's contributions to the technical community are compared against those of their peers. Recipients of the award are determined through review cycles in that nomination period.

Note:

1. MVP nominations are reviewed by a panel of Microsoft personnel and not all nominations are given the MVP Award.
2. Only successful nominations would be contacted by the Microsoft MVP Award Program team.
3. For more information about the MVP Award, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp or send an e-mail at indiamvp@microsoft.com

Thanks,

Joydip

Received Microsoft MVP Award for 2009

Hi,

I have been selected as Microsoft MVP for 2009. I just received a confirmation from Abhishek Kant (Microsoft) today. I am thankful to Abhishek for his continued support.

Best,

Joydip

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly - A new book from Packt Publishing

Hi,

My heartiest congratulations to Maarten Balliauw for the release of his book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly. Published by Packt Publishing, it is a well written book - a rapid guide to design, develop and test ASP.NET MVC applications. Packed with plenty of code examples, clear explanations, and interesting code examples, the book is an excellent guide for ASP.NET developers who want a fast-paced guide to building powerful web applications using the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Here is the list of the chapters:--

Chapter 1: ASP.NET MVC

Chapter 2: Your First ASP.NET MVC Application

Chapter 3: Handling Interactions

Chapter 4: Components in the ASP.NET MVC framework

Chapter 5: Routing

Chapter 6: Customizing and Extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Chapter 7: Using Existing ASP.NET Features

Chapter 8: AJAX and ASP.NET MVC

Chapter 9: Testing an Application

Chapter 10: Hosting and Deployment

Appendix A: Reference Application— CarTrackr

Appendix B: ASP.NET MVC Mock Helpers

Appendix C: Useful Links and Open Source Projects Providing Additional Features

I am happy to have worked as a technical reviewer for this book. I wish Maarten great success in this book.

Thanks,

Joydip

Selected as "Featured Developer of the Fortnight" in MSDN Flash Newsletters

Hi,

I was selected as "Featured Developer of the Fortnight" in MSDN Flash Newsletters in November and December 2008.

Here are the links:--

http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/flash/archive/5msdnflash03Nov2008.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/flash/archive/3msdnflash01Dec2008.htm

Here is the link to the MSDN Flash Newsletter archive: http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/flash/msdnflasharchive.aspx

Best,

Joydip

Book Review on Entity Framework Tutorial by Alessandro Gallo

Hi,

Here is another review by Alessandro Gallo on my Entity Framework book.

My heartiest thanks to Alessandro for the post.

Best,

Joydip

Article on Obfuscation

Hi,

Please have a look at my article on Obfuscation. I would request you all to cast your votes!

Best,

Joydip

Articles at Encosia.com

Hi,

I went through some excellent articles at http://encosia.com/ recently. You can find some excellent posts on Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET and jQuery there. Thanks Dave for such excellent posts!

Best,

Joydip

Web Development and Deployment with Visual Studio 2010

Hi,

To take a quick glimpse at how you can develop and deploy web applications using Visual Studio 2010, watch the Web Development and Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 Video at Channel9. It's awesome! Thanks to Vishal for his excellent posts on Visual Studio 2010 in his blog.

Cheers,

Joydip

Visual Studio 2010 Videos

Hi,

Just to add to my previous post, you can take a look at the Channel 9 Videos on Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. Here is the link: http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio/

Best,

Joydip

Get Started with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0!

Hi,

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 promises to be among the next generation of development tools and platforms for designing and developing applications for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web.

MSDN has released Episodes 1 and 2 of how to work with Visual Studio 2010. Watch Brian Keller discuss his Episode 1 at Channel9. In this episode, you will find Brian discussing on how to download and the VPC for Visual Studio 2010 and also get past certain issues at ease. Jason Olson discusses Episode 2 . In his episode, Jason takes a very high-level look at Visual Studio 2010 - he discusses the some of the awesome features of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

You can also download the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit that contains presentations, hands-on lab exercises and demos. So, why wait? Just download Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (CTP) and get started!

Best,

Joydip

Article on IronPython

Hi,

My first article at http://www.mcpressonline.com/ is now live.

Please do have a look and cast your vote!

Best,

Joydip

Link to my Entity Framework Book at www.sql-server-performance.com

Hi,

A few days back, I requested Jude O'Kelly of SSP to put a link to my book at the esteemed SSP site. He agreed; you can now see mention of my book even in the first page of the SSP site. Here is the link to the SSP web site:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/

Just scroll down and search for the following text:--

"Build a better Data Access Layer with Entity Framework Tutorial" by Joydip Kanjilal

You can find the same text/link on all pages you visit in the SSP site. My heartiest thanks to Jude for this. I would request Jude to please post a review of my book as and when he gets a chance.

Thanks again mate!

Best,

Joydip

Happy New Year 2009!

Dear All,

Now that 2008 dawns to its closure and 2009 beckons, let's usher in the New Year with great optimism, gratitude, and hope. I thank you all for spending your valuable time in reading my articles and books and posting your valuable comments. I wish all my readers, students, friends and well wishers a Very Happy New Year.

Cheers,

Joydip