www.dotnetjalps.com new domain for personal blog

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!!!

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Wohooooo!!! I got Microsoft MVP award again for Visual C#

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.

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My blog post appearing on Channel9.msdn.com

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.

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Important milestone achieved!!- I got 300000 visitors for my blog

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.

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Important milestone achieved. This is my 400th Blog post

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..

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My blog post is appearing on Microsoft Official ASP.NET site.

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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DotNetJalps Nnews- New feed address.

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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Thanks All the readers and community and Happy new year to all of you.

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..

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New blogger template for My blog - DotNetJaps

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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Why a developer should blog?

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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New MSDN Home Page Layout

As Microsoft MVP Microsoft have provided me MSDN Subscription and I was looking at the content of MSDN. I was browsing the India MSDN page but one interesting I have found that there is different page layout for us then India I like the MSDN layout very much It’s categorized in different categorize like desktop,web,cloud and click on each big Icon it will redirect to particular category content. Here is the screenshot for it.

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Well, I am an MVP now!! and I am proud of it.

Microsoft has given me biggest surprise of my life. Microsoft has awarded me as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award. This is one of the proudest movement of my life. Today i got an email and i could not believe that i have done that.

Dear Jalpesh Vadgama,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 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.
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

It’s all because of the my readers for this blog. Thank you very much once again. Without you all this was not going to happen.

From following link you can find list of all newly announced for 2010.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/southasiamvp/archive/2010/07/01/new-mvps-announced-july-2010.aspx

On this occasion once again i would like to thank Microsoft For recognizing my effort toward community and i would also like to thank each and every people,my organization and community supported me and guide me and encourage me to achieve this.

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Important milestone achieved 1,50,000 Visit completed for blog

I started blogging for fun but when i involved as blogger i understand power of blogging. From blog we can connect to people directly we can find reactions of our post sometimes good some time harsh comment but it was quite learning experience. On this occasion i thank all the dotnetjaps reader for providing great support keep reading my blog i am going to post lots things and nowadays i am posting everyday something new. Previous three years was great for my career as well as for this blog. I never expect huge response from  reader but it was great and inspiring me to do more and more blogging. Thank you very much readers.

Here are some of the most popular post from the site meter.

1. Singleton class in C#
2. How to disable right click in Ms Web Browser Control of VB/C#.NET 2005
3. gradient background control
4. How to take Screenshot in C#
5. Enumeration in C#.NET,VB.NET

I once again thanks all the readers from the bottom of my heart  and keep reading this blog.

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How to import your tweets into Google Buzz.

Social networking is a important feature for any person for professionally ass well as personally. You can stay in touch with your friends,colleague and other peoples thanks to social networking sites. Google Buzz is a counter part of twitter from Google. you can post anything on that and you don’t have limit of 140 characters just like. But now there are lots of social networking site available  like Face book,Twitter,Orkut,LinkedIn and now Google Buzz and updating your profile and other things on every social networking site is a tedious job.So, I decided to synchronize my twitter account into Google Buzz. Adding your twitter account in Google Buzz is very easy. First open your Gmail Account and then click on Buzz it will redirect you to your Google Buzz screen. Then click on connected sites and following skin will appear.

Click on add it will ask your twitter name just put your twitter name and that’s it you have done with it. Your tweet will appear in Google Buzz depends on traffic from 1 min to 1 hour.

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My blog post is in Microsft TechEd Online Editors Pick List

Microsoft TechEd online is a great community and always been best to learn new thing. I have been proud of associating my self with great community. It’s a great thing to get acknowledgement from community. Recently one of my blog post-Sending email through System.Net.Mail.Smtpmail in asp.net 3.5/2.0 got place in Microsoft Teched editors pick list. It all because of my blog readers thank you for having faith in me. It’s a great honor to have this post is a part of community. Thanks Again………

Here is the link for all blog of Microsoft Tech Ed Online..

http://www.msteched.com/online/blogs.aspx

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Subsonic 3.0 is out now- Next Generation Object Relational Mapper

There lots of ORM(Object Relational Mapper) is available now like entity framework,nhibernate, linq, dlinq but i choose subsonic 3.0 for my next application which will be a question answer site for the following reason

1. Now subsonic 3.0 is with linq support so you can write your lambda expression and linq queries along with the subsonic
2. It comes with simple repository.
3. Built in T4 Templates for 4.0
4. Linq to subsonic.
5. Subsonic 3.0 templates.
6. Can handle thousand of queries at a times.
7. Full support with asp.net 3.5 features.
8. Ease of Use.
9. Great support with asp.net mvc

And another great news is that Rob Conery is hired by the Microsoft and subsonic will official ORM for ASP.net Applications.

You can download subsonic 3.0 from here.

http://www.subsonicproject.com/Download

Technorati Tags: ORM,Object Relation Mapping,Subsonic,Subsonic 3.0,ASP.NET,Linq

Happy Coding..

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Google SMS Channel –Subscribe my post via SMS

Mobile has been very useful device since its launched. Now days we can not live without mobile. Think if you have your own sms channel and you can send message to your subscribers about your thought your blogs. It seems like a dream but now dream comes true. Google has launched new sms channel through which you can sent any thing to your subscribers. Now you guys can have my blog post via sms. I have created my channel at Google sms channel. You just need to subscribe that channel that’s it. You will have all my updates of blog on your mobile.

Here is the link for subscribing my blog post.

http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/DotNetJaps

Click this link and subscribe this channel and you will have all my blog updates on your mobile. Its free any one can create his/here channel. Go to http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels and try create new channel link and that’s it you are having your own sms channel.

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Windows Live Writer 2009 Available for download now.

I am using windows live writer more then a year for blogging. Its a great tool to blog the things. There lots of inbuilt features are there. Like you can insert videos,Format HTML, Insert hyperlink, insert picture directly from the desktop etc.

A new version of window live writer is having all this functionality. As well as its having plug ins that can be very use full when you are professionally blogging the things. There lots of plug in available like twitter update,dig this and flicker

As well as all this you can directly insert videos from YouTube,soapbox etc.

Here is the link for the downloading the windows live writer.

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

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XML for asp.net

I have found a great resources for developers who are using XML in asp.net frameworks. The site http://www.xmlforasp.net/ having all the thins that require to develop application using XML in asp.net. It has videos, code bank , .NET XML training all the stuff.

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Get a Blog on WindowsClient.NET.

If you are serious windows developer and intersted in blogging then windowsclient.net is a plateform to share your knowledge. You can create your blogs there. Microsoft has opened now for new bloggers.

here is the link to signup blogs there..

http://windowsclient.net/community/blog-with-us.aspx

Happy blogging...

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