Anith Gopal

Olivier Bloch has just posted about Virtual Labs, Training, Webcasts updates for Windows Embedded Compact 7 (Windows CE) – You can find out more about the labs/webcasts/training by visiting Olivier’s blog . – Mike

If you are in New York on the weekend of  the 17th and 18th of September, come along to Maker Faire and chat with members of the Robotics Team who will be showing off a pre-release of the next version of Robotics Developer Studio.

My first MSDN Magazine article is up: Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC . So, if you want to find out how to make the WebGrid component from WebMatrix fit in with ASP.NET MVC then take a peek….

Towards More ReUse in SharePoint Trying to enhance the ReUse in your daily work, Microsoft Practices has developed what is so called SharePoint Guidance or Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 . This guidance has a ready code for you to ReUse . What is it?

If you’re looking for your MAC address for your Windows Phone 7, you’ll need the March 2011 (NoDo) update. That update displays your phone’s MAC address under SETTINGS > ABOUT

  As I mentioned in a previous blog post, where I describe how to install the Zune software on Windows Server 2008, the Windows Phone 7 tools do not install on Windows Server 2008 as easily as on other “workstation” versions of Windows (Windows Vista, Windows 7). Once again, this is perfectly understandable since a server version of Windows is not aimed for application development purposes. However, since I installed Windows Server 2008 on my machine for training purposes, and since I don’t have enough computers at home to have one dedicated for this server version of Windows, I searched for a way to force the installation of these WP7 tools

Back in November 2010 we told you about Beta 1 of a new tool from Microsoft Called Visual Studio LightSwitch.  This tool, reminiscent of Microsoft Access development, allows you to build simple forms over data applications with no code at all. More sophisticated applications can be built by adding with some code more or less depending on the application. One of the most incredible features of LightSwitch is that it can publish your application as a desktop application, a hosted web application or even as a Windows Azure application!  If you want to write once and run in any of these environments this is a tool that you absolutely must look at.

If you’re wondering what it is I do all day, the UK TechNet Blog have just published an interview with me as part of their “day in the life” series, which looks at the various technical roles within Microsoft UK. Be sure to check the others out too! On a related note, if you’re curious about my role in particular then check out my team’s blog series of “ Meet an ADC ”; mine is here .

Countdown is ticking fast! Attend this FREE global virtual launch event (Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9am PST) and learn how it is designed to help you boost sales, improve marketing, enrich customer service interactions, and accelerate line of business (LOB) application development through xRM. In addition, you’ll be able to: Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduce Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Hear keynote presentations by Kirill Tatarinov (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions), Michael Park (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions), and Brad Wilson (General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM).

Light up your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Windows 7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy applications. Together, you have the power to build smart, visually stunning applications that truly light up. Want to learn how to take advantage of your desktop OS using Silverlight

My teammates and I have decided to kick off the new year with a new Firestarter based totally on Silverlight and Windows 7! Like all Firestarters the day will be designed around taking you from the beginning steps of the platform up through more advanced topics.  This event is totally free, open to all east coast developers and will include over six hours of content and free lunch!  Why should I attend? Windows 7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy applications.

Recently I’ve been working on a cross-group effort to create some content for getting folks started with Windows Phone 7 development. The team working on this project are myself and Karl, another writer for Silverlight, some test resources, part of a developer resource to act as a consultant, plus a program manager to run the whole thing. The team started this effort with a list of developer challenges that we gathered from various internal sources, and by developer challenges, I mean tasks that developers have struggled with when building their apps and getting them certified