I am Silverlight MVP !!!

I am happy to tell all my blog readers that I am now Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for “Silverlight” Technology for year 2009-2010.

                             

I am very much thankful to all my readers who encourage me time to time to explore new avenues of technologies especially Microsoft Technologies. Also I am happy to become MVP for this year again, My ASP.NET MVP last year got renew up. I am also very much thankful for people in community for their valuable feedback and encouragement given in offline events. It was great experience for me to present for two days on Silverlight 2 & 3 in Tech.Ed 09 India and followed by Tech.Ed 09 on the Road events.

I am very much thankful to Abhishek Kant (MVP Lead for India), Abhishek Baxi (Microsoft), Mahesh Mitkari (Microsoft MVP from Pune), Dhaval Faria (Microsoft MVP from Mumbai), Suprotim Agarwal (Microsoft MVP and founder of www.dotnetcurry.com) and all my friends from Pune and Pune User Group.

I am also thankful to Mahesh Sabnis (MCT) who helped me in my 2-3 articles in WCF part of it. He help me a lot to learn WCF and WPF. Rather I learn .NET from him :)

Microsoft MVP : What ? Why to become? How to become ?

At community events, we always do our best to inform and update you and make you aware of Microsoft MVP Program, However I got many mails and Tweets which shows some common questions in community about MVP Program.

Many of my friends think that I given few certification exams to get MVP, well..friends, let me wipe out basic confusion :

Microsoft MVP is award and not Certification !! :)

So..what are you waiting for..Check out following links and join the most happening group of Microsoft professionals all over the world..shortly MVPs !!

For my friends in India and South Asia :

http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp/default.aspx

or

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

For my friends who are at various parts of the world :

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

I will however keep touching upon ASP.NET, Dynamic Data, .NET Framework, Visual Studio and other tools along with Silverlight 2, 3, LOB applications, RIA Services, Expression Studio etc. in coming days at this place. Also you can meet me at Offline events which are conducted by local Microsoft user group for Pune as Pune User Group. Soon, I will be updating my blog with Twitter feeds etc. so keep checking this place as you doing it for past few months.

Thanks once again ! :)

Vikram.