Awarded Microsoft MVP in a row

Its new years eve. I was struck in traffic to join a Birthday party of one of my friend. Its all of a sudden I realized that it is my MVP renewal date too. I forgot it totally.

I opened my Mobile, browsed to my account and saw, I have got a mail from MVP Award Team.

"Dear Abhishek Sur,


Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Client App Dev technical communities during the past year.


The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."


Nestor Portillo
Director 
Community & Online Support"

I am really passionate about this award and I am really happy to receive this award for yet another time in Client App Dev category. This came to me as a New Years Gift. Thank you so much Microsoft for considering my activities and I want to personally thank Mr. Abhishek Kant, as my MVP Lead,  Abhijit Jana, Kunal Chowdhury, Amit Bansal, Dhananjay Kumar, Pinal Dave, Anoop Madhusudanan and last but not the least my own Community KolkataGeeks all of whom inspired me so much on my community activities. I would also like to thank the whole Microsoft Team for providing us such an opportunity to be in touch with this elite group.

And finally thank you to all my blog readers. I feel truly honored to receive such an award.

Happy New Year to all of you. Its time to party..... .

:)

Daily DotNet Tips 1 year and onwards

Friends,

We are excited to celebrate 1st Anniversary of our site DailyDotnetTips today. It aims to share useful programming tips for .net developers.This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful Code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET.

Here is some of the statistics : 

1. Founded : 27th December 2010
2. No of Posts : 250
3. No facebook likes : 502
4. No of participants : 7
5. No of Twitter followers : 348

We are still a long way to go. Follow us and be a part of it. 

www.dailydotnettips.com 

DEVCON – Kolkata, A New Beginning on 12th November, 2011

November 12th , we are getting together for a big event Developer Conference 2011 Organized by Microsoft User Group Kolkata (KolkataGeeks) .  Developer Conference is the premier technical event for technology professionals at Kolkata interested in learning, connecting and exploring latest Microsoft technologies.  This is also going to be community Launch event for Office 365. So be there and enjoy the flavor of cutting edge Microsoft technologies.

This is a full day event and you can attend this  event in person at Bharatiya Bhasha Parisad 36A, Shakespeare Sarani, 4th Floor  Kolkata – 700017.  Overall there are 7 different sessions which primarily focused on latest Microsoft Technologies.  .  Check the Dev Con Web Site for more information.

I’ll be presenting on “Windows 8 Metro Style Application“.  In this session I will talk about latest Windows release and how you can get best out of it through your Metro Style applications. There will be lots of demo in this session. 

Check out session details and agenda from here http://kolkatageeks.com/DevCon2011.aspx .  You can register for this event over here  http://kolkatageeks.com/DevCon2011/Register.aspx

See you there !

Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications

If you have read my first article on Windows 8 metro styled application, you might already know about the working principle of it. I have talked about the capabilities for an application and settings which end user can configure for an application. In this post I will take a look at the basic layout structure that one needs to follow while creating an application in WinRT Metro styles so that it is best suited to perform well.

Layout is the most important part of any application. The best design for an application gets more credit and love from the users than applications that are designed bad. Metro style applications runs in full screen. Your application does not include a  Title Bar, status bar or anything. Microsoft gave us some of the basic layout guidelines that one needs to follow. Lets talk about them here to make you understand how you should layout your application in Metro Applications to utilize maximum flexibility of it.

Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities

Just about a month ago, WinRT was introduced with all new style of application development that can work better with Multi Touch Enabled devices. We call it as Metro Applications. In this post, I will discuss how to develop your first metro applications and how to work with its layout changes.

How to Start

Before we start talking directly about Metro Style application, let us see how to install it first. I refer to use OracleVM which you can find for free from this link, and install.  This will install a Virtual Machine in which you can install the Developer Preview of Windows 8.

Regular Expressions with Timeout in .NET 4.5

.NET 4.5 Developer preview is out with Visual Studio 2011. I was already thinking to try out what's new in .NET 4.5 myself and share what exactly been changed.

Lets start by the new Regex Api introduced with the framework. The improvement that has been made is minor yet handy at certain cases. The Regex class of .NET 4.5 supports Timeout. Lets take a look how to work with it.

Generic Types and Static Members

One of my friend recently asked me a question that I think I should share with you. Say you have a Static Implementation of a Type T which you pass as Open Type in your Generic Class. Now the problem is how to get reference to the Static Members or invoke a method that is Static to the Type from the Open Type T.  In this post, I will demonstrate few implementations that help you getting the Static implementation.

First of all, According to C# documentation, any type allocates its static members once per Type rather than once per Open Type. Now lets define this using the code below :