Recently before few days Ahmedabad User Group and Microsoft has organized A windows Azure boot camp event on April 27,2013. As an Ahmedabad User Group member I was there and it was amazing event. This post is about to share my experience with Event.

What is Windows Azure:

Windows azure is a Microsoft Cloud platform. Windows Azure enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any operating system, language or tool. You can fine more information about there from the following links.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/overview/

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Before one year my blog has its own domain name www.dotnetjalps.com and at that time I did not changed the URL of my rss feeds. But now feed burner is providing me a way to change it without effecting my current subscribers so I have changed that to match my domain name.

Following is a new URL for my feeds.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DotNetJalps

Please note that existing subscribers don’t have to change anything. Only the new subscribers will have that changed now.

Once again my blog post about CRUD operations with asp.net and petapoco appears on the Microsoft asp.net official website. I would like to thank you all for specially Jon Galloway and asp.net team.



A big thank you for every one for supporting me.

Today is one of the most important day for this blog as I am writing 551th blog post for this blog post. I can’t believe this..yeah this blog has completed 550 blog post.

People I like to thank:

First of all I like to thank my parents for whatever I am without them I could not even stand near where I am right now!!.  Then I would like to thank my wife without her support it would not have been possible to write this 551 blog post..So thank you sweetheart. My younger brother who has been moral support for me whenever I feel low or something was not working my way. My little champ who give me all energy that I have. Whole MVP community and friends where I learn so many things and off course readers of this blog. Without readers this blog is not there where it is right now!!

How I started blogging:

Actually  I was not serious about blogging I just show a blog with blogspot domain and for curiosity I have also registered a blog actually at that time I have registered it with my name like http://jalpesh.blogspot.com. At that time I have no idea that what blog is. After registering blog for first month I have not done anything and one one day I just goggled my name and I found my blog listing over there even if I have not written anything. I feel excited and decided I should write some thing and that’s how I have started writing.

Earlier I was just writing blog posts to make a repository of my code whatever I have done in my professional life. But when I came Ahmedabad at that time I understand the true value of blog and then I started taking it very seriously and started writing blog post that can help others and me to learn new things.

Then I brought my own domain last year http://www.dotnetjalps.com to create my own brand.

This blog is my journey of learning and I believe in this journey and continue to walk on it that’s why I have made title of this blog post still counting!!

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Today I got great news from sitemeter.com that my blog http://www.dotnetjalps.com completed 500,000 visitors for my blog. This is a new milestone achieved for this blog and I would like to thank all my blog readers for making this blog this much bigger.

On this occasion I would like to thanks all supporters, friends and my family members who have faith in me and believe that I could do something and this all because of them and my blog readers.
Followings are my statistics for my blog.

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This is not a usual technical post I am writing here. I just wanted to take a moment and wishing you Merry Christmas and happy holidays. All readers are has been great support to this blog and on this occasion I want thank you guys for all the support and love you have shown during this year 2012. I have achieved so much through this blog and its been not possible without your support.

I wish that year 2013 will bring you all joy and happiness you required. May all your wishes fulfil.



Stay tuned for more. I have lots of stuff for you in 2013. Till then happy holidays!! and once Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Today I am not writing any technical post. This post is out of subject for this technical blog. But the intension of this blog to reach more and more people to help community so I am writing this. In this post I am going to explain few tips for improving Alexa rank for your technical blog.

What is Alexa Rank?

Alexa.com is a private company founded in 1996. They defined themselves as the “Web information company”. But in simple words for us Alexa is a company that measures web traffic in almost every site on the internet through their toolbar plugin. On the internet Alexa rank becomes a standard in the webmasters world. If you have good Alexa ranking then there will more people,advertisers,sponsors and visitors will be attracted your site.

Tips for increasing Alexa rank on your technical blog:

I am not kind of guru on this. I am just sharing what I have learnt from the experience. Followings are few tips that will help you increasing Alexa rank.

1. First thing I need to clear that alexa rank and google page rank are both different. So If you are having higher page rank that does not mean that you will have higher Alexa rank. Both are measured in different way.
2. To have perfect Alexa rank first thing you need to is to claim your site at Alexa.com. You can claim your site via putting a meta tag suggested by them. That way Alexa.com can access your site better and you could have possibly better and accurate rank over there.

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I am doing blogging since last 5 years and I have seen lots of people asking the same things. Why do you write blog? do you have any side income for this blog? Why you are so active in community ? I am answering this questions almost every day. So I decided to write a blog post about it. Following are the reason why I am writing blogs and doing community work?

Help:

I like to help people and that is one of the main reason behind the all blogs and community work. Also helping other is a great way to learn new things. Because other person may be facing a problem which you never encountered during your professional life or project you are doing!!. At the end of you can feel proud that you help somebody.

Learning:

I have to learn lots of things everyday to write my blogs. Some one said Teaching some one is best way to learn new things. It apply here also when you write blog or answer question on forum.

Earn Award and Get famous:

This is one of the advantages of writing blogs and doing community things. People will know that you are having such knowledge in respected fields. I have got Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award 3 times due to my blogging and community work. But remember one thing your first intension of doing communication work is to help people. All other things will come as other benefits.

Communication skills:

Once you communicate with lots of people and write blog it will definitely increase your communication skills. If you are writing some blogs then its going to increase your writing skills also.

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Today is Sunday and I was not expecting this as today is holiday although I know it was Microsoft Mvp renewal day. At evening I got the congratulation email from the Microsoft. Yeah!! I am Microsoft Most Valuable Professional again. I got the same message as a part of Mvp. Thanks Microsoft again.

Dear Jalpesh Vadgama,
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 Visual C# technical communities during the past year.

Feeling is again same as first time. I am going to dedicated this award to my family. My parents who always inspired me to do new things. My wife who scarifies her time to write blogs. My brother who support me in every possible way. On this occasion, I would also like to thanks my reader without their support it was no possible to achieve this. Thanks for reading my blog!!. Please do keep reading this. I will try to write as much as possible. I would also like to thanks ‘Tanmay Kapoor’ My Mvp lead for continuous support.

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This is my 500th blog post on this blog and I feel very proud writing this blog post. I am very passionate about blogging and I have been doing more than 5 years.  500th blog post a great achievement and on this occasion first all I would like to thank my family for continuous support they are providing support to maintain blog at regular interval.

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I have written this blog more than 5 years now and today I got one great news from sitemeter.com that I have achieved 4,00,000 visitors milestone. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks all the my readers for everything. I got nice appreciations from people around me and that’s encourage me to write more blogs.
Following is a screenshot of my blog statistics from sitemeter.com.

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2011 year has been ended before so its time to write the year recap blog post.First of all I like to wish my friends,reader and everybody a happy new year. This year was very exciting in some way for this blog. First thing was happened that I have moved from blogspot domain to my own domain http://www.dotnetjalps.com. I have written this in a blog post why I was moving from blogspot to my personal domain. Another great thing was happened that I was awarded as MIcrosoft most valuable professional for visual C# for year 2011 it was great to be part of MVP communities and meet fellow Mvps.Professionally this year was good year as I have got chance work on the new technologies like Juqery Mobile,ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET 4.0 on real time projects.

Events I have attended during year 2011

Professionally I was very busy with this year but still I managed to attend few events personally while I have attended lots of events and webcasts during this Year. I have attended two events this year one was Tech On Road 2011 at Ahmedabad and other was Windows Azure camp both event was great and followings are details blog post about it.

http://www.dotnetjalps.com/2011/06/tech-ed-on-road-2011-ahmedabada-great.html

http://www.dotnetjalps.com/2011/05/windows-azure-camp-at-ahmedabad.html

Greatest Hit for 2011

I have written 95 blog posts through year through I was really busy with professional environments but following are greatest hits as per blogger stats.

Sending email through System.Net.Mail.Smtpmail in asp.net 3.5/2.0

How to take ScreenShot in C#

Enumeration in C#.NET,VB.NET

How to call a web service from JavaScript with asp.net Ajax

That’s it. Once again thank you for reading this blog and Happy new year to all of you. Stay tuned for more I am planning to write more and more blog post this year. Till then happy programming.

Yesterday I was searching something and I got a nice surprise. I have seen my blog post for RSS reader is appearing on MSDN ASP.NET MVC content map. It is really proud movement for me. Following is the link from where you will get this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg416514%28v=VS.98%29.aspx

On this page Microsoft has created a list of best resources for ASP.NET MVC and one of my post are selected for this. Go to additional resources and there you can see my blog post about RSS reader.



I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers. It’s all because of them. I promise that I will keep same kind of work again. I would also like to thank MSDN people for adding my blog post to their list. Thank you very very much MSDN Content creators.

Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more…Till then Happy programing…

I was checking my backlinks on sitemeter today and I have found a blog link which is directly copy my articles from my blog to his blog without giving credits to me. Following is a link for it.

http://learndotnetwithasad.blogspot.com/

This guy has copied my articles blindly event he has copied my new dotnetjalps.com domain post.  I have told this guys to remove the articles but he was not ready to remove this. So I asked Google(Blogger support) to remove content from this link. I have sent DMCA notice to blogger support via this link.

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr_dmca&product=blogger

After my notice Blogger support team has removed content but still this guy is copying my blog once again.
So please beware of this guy. He can copy your content too.

As a blogger we all are putting so much time to create content and other stuff. We all know that how difficult is to write something.  This blog is for community and you can copy code from here. But please don’t steal or copy my entire content from this as I have done lots of hard word for it. At least give some credits to me. That’s all I want. I hope you can understand .. Stay tuned for more.. There are so many interesting things are coming here.

Namaste!!

Today I heard a sad news for techie world Apple chairman Steve Jobs passed away yesterday night. He was a great men and we would always remember him as a super hero who has brought lots innovations like iPod,iPhone and iPod etc. which changed our lives.

As Apple said on his page. “Apples has lost a visionary and creative genius,and world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could  have built and his spirit will be forever in foundation of apple”.

You can see a great image of him at http://www.apple.com like below with all product as menu like iPhone, iPod,iTunes etc. what  a men he was. My sincere  condolences to his family and Apple family. We always remember him as great men!!.

“And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” –Steve Jobs

After more then 4 years of blogging I have decided to migration my personal blog to its own domain http://www.dotnetjalps.com. There are few reasons why I have migrated my blog to new domain.

1. Custom domain is your own identity. So you can create your brand.
2. Now all page ranks and All SEO belongs to my custom domain instead of blogger platform.
3. SEO will be more easy then standard custom domain.
4. I want to reach more people and its easy with your custom domain
5. People will share bookmarks with my custom domain. So If I migrated my blog to another plate all things will remain same.
6. PageRank was increasing with subdomains very slowly. While with custom it will increase faster.
7. In lots of companies I have seen block blog word with custom domain its will removed. So more people can reach at my blog when they need me.

Here is a great link which inspired me a lot for migrating my blog to http://jalpesh.blogspot.com to http://www.dotnetjalps.com.

Note: I have not change my feeds address for personal blog. So RSS feeds will remain same at- http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/DotNetJalps.

On this opportunity once again I would like thanks my reader and my supporters for making me whatever I am. Without you guys it would not have been possible. You are the real hero for me. So please keep reading my blogs and send me suggestions to make better and better.

One another great news is that DZone people send me a certificate for my DZone MVB. So I would like to take this opportunity to  share with you guys.



That’s it. Please comment your views about my blog. Stay tuned for more..Till then Happy Programming.. Namaste!!!

Yesterday I got great news from Microsoft. I have been awarded as Microsoft MVP again for year 2011-2012. Yesterday I got following email.



Dear Jalpesh Vadgama,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 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 Visual C# technical communities during the past year.

It is really one of the proudest moment of my professional life. When you get this kind of appreciation its feel great.

On this occasion I would like to thank my Friends,Employer,co-workers, Community friends and readers for providing support for me. I would also like to thank my MVP lead Abhishek Kant for guiding me throughout year. Last but not least my family members who are been there for me for my every ups and down. My father and mother who is inspiration of mine. My lovely brother Vishal who encourage me to do all this and My Lovely wife Reena who is supporting me for this in every possible way and my little champ Teerth from whom I am getting energy to do this.

Once again Thanks Microsoft for this.

Recently I was searching something and I found that one of the post about New Features of the SQL Server Denali was being discussed on Channel9 on MSDN. It’s a great pleasure and honour to have this kind of appreciation. I would like to thanks again Microsoft for giving opportunity and serve community. I would also like to thanks my readers who are giving me all the support and love.

Once again I am appealing good developers to start blogging. I have seen many great developers are who are doing great stuff but not blogging. I would like to say please please do the blogging and share your stuff with community and you will also get this kind of great appreciation.

Here is the link where they discussed that video.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Skype-HTML-5-Canvas-Python-tools--more

Following is video where Dan and Clint from Microsoft discussed my blog post on channel 9.



Here are the stuff they have discussed during the video.

• [00:30] Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft to acquire Skype
• [01:12] Skype - Skype already has developer APIs you may be interested in
• [01:55] Mark Heath - Skype Voice Changer app shows how to use the Skype4COM library 
• [03:32] Robert Green kicks off the Visual Studio Toolbox show, covering the Productivity Power Pack
• [04:49] Pytools - A free, open source Python IDE with syntax colorization, IntelliSense, interactive mode, and more
• [06:08] Dan Wahlin - Getting started with the HTML 5 Canvas tag
• [07:39] Todd Brix - Updates and clarifications to the Windows Phone marketplace policies
• [09:35] Scott Guthrie - Walkthrough of using the HTML 5 improvements in the ASP.NET MVC3 Tools Update 
• [10:33] Azure Team - Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides a client library to access Azure in Objective C
• [11:29] Jalpesh Vadgama - New IDE features in SQL Server "Denali" Management Studio -
• [13:29] CodeProject - Respond to Windows Power Management events

Once again thank you for great appreciation. Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming.

I have been writing this blog since last four years and I am working on hard on this to server community which I love most as much as I can. Here I got great news from www.sitemeter.com that my blog has achieved 300000 mark.  I would like to take this opportunity to thanks all my readers who has supported me all time whenever I write blogs. I got some nice appreciations from people and that’s encourage me to write more blogs.

Followings are my statistics from the sitemeter.com. Till I was writing this blog post I got 304412 visits to my blog and 368759 page views from my blog. Following are screenshots of my statistics.



Pageviews



Here is another one from blogger itself that is saying that I am getting 22500 page views last moth.



When I get appreciation from you guys like this then its feels great. Once this occasion I would like to tell you that if you are having passion for any technologies then please do write blogs. Because you are not going to share it you are not going to gain more knowledge.

Recently Microsoft and Ahmedabad .NET User Group has organized a great event and opportunity to learn Microsoft Windows Azure. Each session was great and I quite enjoyed all the session through out the day.

First two session was from Gaurav Mantri-(Owner of Cerebrata Software - a very well-known company in world of Windows Azure Platform ISVs). Both sessions were great in First Session was about Introduction to Cloud Computing and Windows Azure in this session he has explained basics of cloud computing and also explained features of Windows Azure. He also explained all the scenario when we need to move our application to cloud. In the second session he has explained the Windows Azure compute and Storages available on windows Azure. He explained All the storage like tables,Blob etc. and also explained the advantages and disadvantages of the various available storage options on window azure.

After that we had a heavy lunch and in post lunch sessions Ahmedabad .NET User Group president Mahesh Dhola take deep dives to various tools available to develop Windows Azure application. He explained features of Windows Azure portal as well desktop tools available for the development Tools. In second session he has given real time demo via creating sample application called “Ahmedabad Khau Ghar “ A sample shopping cart developed in ASP.NET MVC2 and uses various features like Session State provider for Windows Azure etc.

At the end of the day we had Tea/Coffee and we had great discussion about the Windows Azure. Following is some of the pictures of Event.











It was a great event and Thanks Microsoft and Ahmedabad .NET User group for organizing such events. It a great to learn new things and Also great way to networking with other great guys.