Last Thursday I was given the opportunity to present my first live meeting. It was part 2 of a live meeting series organized by Microsoft to get people familiar with Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4.0. I spoke about C# 4.0 and Parallel computing. Things I covered included C# 4.0 Language and compiler features Dynamic support, Named and optional parameters, Variance (CoVariants, ContraVariants), Office Programmability Visual C# IDE featues Call Hierarchy, NavigateTo, Reference Highlighting, Generate from usage, Intellisence suggestion mode, Live Semantic Errors ...

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the CEE MVP summit which was hosted this year hear at Athens. Having the experience of the MVP summit I knew that I was going to have a great time and was proven right. I had a great time talking with my fellow MVPs listening to their experiences and socializing with them. I guess that's one of the benefits of being an MVP , you get the chance to know and speak with a lot of people. For those of you that are still skeptical I hope the next gallery will show you...

Great news arrived last week. I was re-awarded with the MVP title for the fourth consecutive year. It feels so great being part of this community not only because of the benefits (which are great too ) but also because you get the chance to actually reach out and help other people. As I promised last year and the year before that I will try to engage more in the community through my blogging, speaking, and writing on Software and web development and hope that I will meet MVP program’s high entrance standards next year as well . ...

Last week I was asked by http://microsoftfeed.com to give an interview about the MVP program. Microsoftfeed.com is a Microsoft community blog focused mainly in the middle east region. It contains lots of valuable information and they’re currently running a section called “Interview with Microsoft Most Valuable professionals” which features a lot of interesting people. So when asked to participate I jumped to the opportunity, even though things have been pretty hectic lately (starting your own business can be really time consuming, believe me). The interview was published the day before yesterday and you can find it here,...

Yesterday, I had the chance to speak in front of an audience about how ready is Silverlight for your business applications at a Microsoft DevDay event. I really enjoyed it as I was mainly showing code and demos (did 7 demos in 1h.30m which is a personal record) instead of doing PowerPoint slides, and talked about a lot of new features coming up with Silverlight 3. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as me. If you didn’t make it, I believe there’s a video coming up later on (it really depends on Isavella ;-)). Till then you can take a...

Great news arrived this week. Didn’t have time to blog about it as I also had a Community presentation about windows Azure. So Microsoft has given me the MVP title, once again! This my third year in a row as an MVP, and hopefully not my last. Last year I promised that I would try to engage more in the community through my blogging, speaking, and writing on Software and web development. Hope that I met everyone's expectations . Stay tuned… more is coming… P.S. For those that don’t know what an MVP really means,...

Last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Alessandro our MVP Lead about the MVP program and what’s it like being an MVP. Well the interview is up and I think you’ll find it interesting, especially if you’d like to join the program ;-).

Yesterday I had the chance to talk at a DotNetZone event about Building Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight 2.0. It went very well, people seemed to have an active interest on this new Technology and anxiously looking forward to build real word applications (like this healthcare one announced yesterday by Tim Sneath) with it. My session was quite long (2.5 hours - thankfully no one slept during it ;-)) so I had the chance to talk about almost all of Silverlight's features and give a lot of demos, after all events like that, where you speak to developers, is...

Till today I've been to a number of Technical events and to be honest the ending had always been a bit boring. Most of the good sessions were over, all of the announcements had been made and most of the attendees had gone shopping or to sleep instead of attending. Well that's not the case with the MVP Summit. The closing sessions were probably what everyone expected I guess. The guys that are taking over from BillG, namely Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer shared their vision for the future of IT and let us in on the company's strategy...

My first day at Seattle is officially over. The day began with the super Sean O'Driscoll's keynote and continued with a series of open discussion sessions between MVPs. The first one that I participated was on ASP.Net Webform development and the new MVC framework. From the discussion I realized that a lot of people consider MVC as the future web development technology, one that will eventually replace ASP.Net Webform development. They see those two technologies as opposing one another, while in my opinion MVC Framework is just another tool that developers can take advantage of in order to satisfy...