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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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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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…

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.

Last Saturday on June 11,2011 Ahmedabad was having Microsoft Tech-Ed on Road event. I was fortunate to being part of it. I have attended many community events in Ahmedabad but this time we get overwhelming response and approx. 300 to 400 persons where there in person and organizers were having hard time to arrange seats for them.



As always first event was started by welcome note where Pinal Dave has delivered a very short and sweet welcome note and then we have got our first speaker Mahesh Dhola on Lightswitch on cloud. In his session he has shown us some excellent features of the Visual Studio Lightswitch . He has created a CRUD Silverlight application without writing zero lines of code and with all the business validation and all the basic stuff that required for a application. The session contained lots practical demos.



After that session we had very own Technology Evangelist Pinal Dave. He has taken session on SQL Server Waits and Queues – Your gateway to performance troubleshooting. In his session he has explained what is the use of waits and queues and How we can increase the performance of our database with solving problems related waits and queues. Hi has made us fill that there is simple solutions to big problems and He also showed demo of some of the waits types. As our another speaker Harish Vaidyanathan said Pinal’s session was full of drama and emotions.



After that we have got another great speaker Harish Vaidyanathan. Who has taken session on HTML5- Future of web. He has got some excellent demos of HTML5 and CSS3 and also he has explained some of the features of Internet Explorer 9 and also explained How IE9 utilized resources on machine to serve web content faster then other browsers. We have learned a lots from him and we have proud to have him at Ahmedabad.



After session of HTML5 we had lunch and its a great way to meet people and exchange your knowledge with them. I have met many great people over there who are already serving community to a lot. After the lunch we had a small session and demo from Microsoft MVP Dhananjay Kumar. In his session he has delivered and showed demo of some of cool features of Microsoft new windows phone operating system called Windows Phone 7 Mango. It was to great to see multitasking third party applications.



After that We have one of the great session of the event. Our own proud of Ahmedabad the SQL and XML Guru Jacob Sebastian. He has delivered excellent session on TSQL Worst practices. In his sessions we have gone through some of the excellent scenarios where SQL Queries looks fine and work in some scenarios but it can be dangerous in some of the scenario. Usually we don’t care of that but he made us feel that we should not use this kind of queries.



After that we have got another good session about from our local Guys Tejas Shah who has delivered session on ASP.NET Tips and Tricks. In that he has explained some of basic features of asp.net with best practice to use them.



After that We has small demos of from the Kaushal Bhavsar about Silverlight 5 features.



After that we have some quiz and also announced some of winners for quiz one of my friend Kirti Darji also got pen drive a part of quiz winner.



It was a great event and I would to take this opportunity to thanks Microsoft and Ahmedabad User .NET groups and other organizers to have such kind of events. I am also looking for some of forthcoming events. Following are some of links from where you can find presentations and scripts that are used in demos.

HTML5 Beauty of Web -By Harish Vaidyanathan
TSQL Worst Practices- By Jacob Sebastian
SQL SERVER Performance troubleshooting using Waits and Queues -By Pinal Dave
ASP.NET Tips and Tracks -By Tejas Shah
LightSwitch on cloud- By Mahesh Dhola

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.

When I started this blog before four Years I was not serious about blogging. I was just started this blog to register domain against my name. After a while I was inspired by great community bloggers like ScottGu,Pinal Dave,Jacob Sebastian and some other friends like Vivek Patel. Then I started blogging seriously but at that time I was not aware of how to blog. I was just writing whatever I like or whatever I have found. I have no idea of syntax highlighting, blogging technique and SEO. Day by day I learned a lot and started working on things and as a Result of it Today I got 400th Blog post on my this blog.

I would like to thanks each and every reader and my fellow community blogger to helping me achieve this. Without them I could not achieve this.

Still I have seen there are lots of exceptional developers who are not writing blog. I would like to recommend that please read my blog post “Why a developer should blog?”. I must say once again that If you are doing great work then you should share it with the community and get their views of what you are doing.

On this occasion I would love to share some thoughts on blogging like following.

1. Do not write blog to increase your blog post or get any recognition . Instead of this write your blog for self pride and community.
   
2. Do no worry about who is going to read this blog. How you can increase your readers instead of that keep writing blogs and one day you will achieve whatever you like to do. Read your blog post once you posted it on your blog and it will give you great joy and satisfaction.
   
3. keep inspired by your fellow community bloggers and try to improve your blogging.
4. If you are technical blogger then Keep your post to give a complete solution of a problem because if readers will not get complete solution then they got frustrated with you.
5. Learn and explore new things and share you experience on you blog.
6. Always be good listener and you will learn a lot.
7. Nobody knows everything. We all are learning everyday something so keep doing mistakes but learn from those mistakes and try to not repeat the same mistakes again.

Statistics of my blog:

On this occasion I would like to share my statistics of blog below are my statistics of blog

Once again I would like to thank the readers and all the fellow bloggers without them it was not possible to achieve this. Keep blogging.. Stay tuned for more..

Today I got a surprise from the Microsoft. One of my friend Hajan Informed me that my blog post is appearing on the Microsoft Official asp.net site www.asp.net. This is great surprise and honor for me that my blog post are appearing on Microsoft official site.

I would like to thanks all the peoples who are supporting me and all the people who are their to correct me If I am wrong. Thank you once again!!. I will continue to writing my blogs to serve community and this kind of encouragement give more boost for writing blogs.

Stay tuned for more.. I will keep writing.. Thank you readers..

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Hello All,

I am moving my feeds to new address so please update your feeds with my new address. Earlier there was two or three feed address and that’s why there were some confusion between the feed address among readers. So I decided to just keep one feed address for all and so I am migrating my all the feeds to following address with feed burner. There will one feed address all the things in blog. So please please update your feed address.

Following is my feed address with feed burner.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/DotNetJalps

Still my old feed address will be available for next 30 days and then it will be deleted so please please migrate to this new feed address. 

All reader of the this blog very important because without their support It would not be possible to write blogs. So any suggestion or anything that could make my blog better is always welcome. Please read my blogs regularly and I will also try my best write my blog continuously.

I am still saying that blogging is important now days. It will increase your confidence as well in future it will be integral part of your resume. So if you are still not started blogging then start it immediately. Please read my blog post why a developer should write blog and start working on blog. Because it a shadow of your knowledge to out side world and with blogging your writing and communication skills will also improve that help you in your professional life.

Till that.. Happy programming..Stay tuned for more.

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This is my first blog post for new year 2011 and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers for making my blog very successful and accepting me a community member. As year 2010 has lots of up down in IT filed it was recession period and now we almost recovered from it.

Personally year 2010 has been very successful to me as I have been awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for visual C#. And It was one of the greatest achievement of my life. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks Microsoft for this and thanks all friends specially Jacob Sebastian who has given me guidance any time I required it.

I have been also awarded dzone most valuable blogger this year and it was a nice surprise from dzone. I would like thanks dzone for this.

Once again I am wishing you happy new year and may this year will bring success to all of you. One more thing I have found that I have met lots of people who is quite intelligent and exceptional developers and IT professionals but they are not blogging their stuff. I would say please my blog post a why a developer should write blog and Start blogging immediately because unless and until you don’t blog community will not know what you are doing. 

Till then happy blogging and programming ... Stay tuned for more..

I have changed my blogger template to newer version of blogger. Hope you guys liked it. There are some difficulties over there but I still love the changes that blogger has offered. I know my old version of syntax highlighter is not working. But I am fixing that for all the older posts and already did it for some posts.

‘Change is in all things sweet.’

As a philosopher Aristotle has said we all should be ready to change. I have changed my blogger template due to following reasons.

1. It’s more SEO Friendly. It is having less errors on w3c validations and It will increase search engine optimization for my blog. Still blogger template are not totally compliant like word press but blogger has decided to moved in that way so I am going to support that way.
2. It has good way to monetize your blog.
3. It has provided a new feature called ‘Pages’. You can create your own pages like I have created like asp.net interview questions etc. I will going to post some frequently asked interview questions over here.
4. It has providing status same like Wordpress so its good be changed.

Above all, I have also changed my script high lighter version 3.0.83. So there might be some difficulties in older posts but I am going to fix one by one. If you found anything then please fill free to contact me via posting comment on my blog and I am going to fix that right away.

Here is screenshot my blog is look like.

Please fill free to contact me if you have any question. I am going to start posting technical post soon. I need your support and I know you guys are going to provide me that.

Thanks once again all the readers who have made my blog successful.Keep reading it I will going to post more and more.

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I have been blogging since last three year on my BlogSpot blog and it was quite fun writing blogs. I have started a blog as repository of my technical things and  but after some posts I realize that there are lots of people are using it and It’s a great way to express your feelings about Technical things. I have been promoting blogging among my friends and people and lots of people ask me that why a developer should blog if he has good knowledge what ever domain he is working why he should blog? A developer should only concentrate on technical things rather then writing blog or taking part in the community but I am not agree with that. Even some developers has started blogging and after some time they not writing due some reasons. Here are some facts that why a developer should blog.

• Blogging is a great way to express your feeling about anything that you blog. Whether It’s a technical blog or whatever you are blogging about.
• Through your blog you can show your technical expertise to real world and you can market your self. Who knows some employer are watching your blog and will offer you a job based on your technical things you are blogging.
• You can create a repository of your technical things and later on you can retrieve that from your blog whenever you need them.
• Teaching new things to other people is best way to learn. If you teach people they will have some question and you will become mature in that technology.
• It will also increase your writing capabilities which will help you to manage document,write document and other things at your professional front. My writing skills are much better then when i write my first blog post.
• Through blog you are communicating with real world and it will enhance your communication skills.
• There are some prestigious award Like Microsoft MVP which you can only get if you are doing community work or blogging. I just have been awarded as Microsoft MVP for visual C# because of my blogging and community work.
• After writing your blog post just read your blog post you will feel proud whatever you did.

I have also seen that lots of developers are started blog and then after some time they have decided to quit from blogging and here are some common reason.

• I don’t have time to blog. Time management is very important thing and a Google calendar can be your friend. You can write events and notes to calendar and it will remind you that you have blog about this in this time line. One of my Friend and Guide Jacob teach me this technique. He is writer of several SQL Server books and an Microsoft MVP for SQL Server.
• I am  not an expert of technology or I don’t know about latest technology. Lot’s of people told me what we should blog I don’t know much about latest technology. Here is my answer for that you don’t have to write about latest technology or latest trends you just need to write what you know whether it’s a new or whether its old. I am confess still I don’t know lots of things but I am blogging about whatever i know or whatever i have lean in recent days. Most of visitor of your blog will come for small articles not a advance technical articles.
• I am not getting page hits  for my blog. Well, you don’t have to blog for page hits or anything else. Just write blog and read your post and feel proud of whatever you did. For page hits you can optimize you blog for search engine and through search engine optimization you will get page hits. 
• I am not getting positive comments for my blog. Well, People are more negative then being positive for what ever we did. Try to do your best and comment moderation will help you for this. Now days are every blogging plate form is having comment moderation. Just feel proud of whatever you did and then after some time you will realize there are so many peoples are there who are encouraging you to write more. One good comment is more encouraging then three negative comments. You will also find people who is going to tell you are writing blogs and you don’t know simple things you should have this knowledge they all are afraid of you because they know that you are far better then them. So don’t put your concentration on that just ignore them because everyone can not master everything.

Hope this will help you.. Still you have not started blogging then start it right away. 

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