Microsoft MVP for the 6th time! Thank you, Microsoft

First all, Sorry for the late post. I am very happy and proud to announce that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the 6th time in “Visual Studio and Development" Category.



On this occasion, I would to Thank Microsoft for again such a wonderful gesture. I would also like to thank my MVP Community lead Deepak Rajendran  & team for their constant support. I would like to thanks, Biplab Paul and Gadharv Rawat for doing same earlier. Without the support of these guys, it would not have been possible to achieve this.

Also, I would like to thank my family for their constant support for compromising their time to do the community work. Special thank to my wife Reena. Behind every men’s success, there is a woman and she is the woman responsible for my success. I would like to dedicate this award to my family this time especially my little champ who is the inspiration for me to staying strong in any condition.

Also, I would like to thank Ahmedabad User Group and Microsoft for providing awesome opportunity to speak at various events.

Last but not least, THANK YOU my dear blog readers without you. It was not possible.

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My blog awarded top 60 Dot Net Blogs on Web from FeedSpot

It’s been a great year for me overall. It was a roller coaster ride for me. Recently I got an email from Anuj Founder of FeedSpot that My blog has been awarded as Top 60 DotNet Blog from FeedSpot.



You can find complete list of Top 60 blog at following link.

http://blog.feedspot.com/dotnet_blogs/

My blog at 22 positions there.It’s great pleasure being part of Top 60 Dot Net Blog in Web. On this occasion I would like to thank my Family without there support it was not possible to bee there. Specially my wife Reena who sacrifies her time when I’m writing blog posts. Also I, would like to thank my entire audience and readers without them it was not possible to achieve such a great milestone.

Thank you very much everyone!!. Please keep reading my blog. Stay tuned!

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3 millions page views for my blog–DotNetJalps.com

I am not super crazy about milestones. But its a big one so I have to share. My blog just completed 3 Million page views it’s an amazing journey so far. Thank you all readers from bottom of my heart. I host my blog on blogger.com. So here is the statistics from blogger.com.




Here are top most of blogger post for all time.



Till 2010, I was not tracking my page views but at this time I am getting more than 60k page views per month.  Special thanks to my dear wife, who scarifies her time when I write the blog.
Once again, Thank you dear visitors and reader of my blog, without you, this would not have been possible!.

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Session about Microsoft Azure at SK Patel Institute of Computer Studies

This post was pending for a month!. Sorry for being late. I had got a chance to give a session about Microsoft Azure at SK Patel Institute of Computer Studies, Gandhinagar with Kalpesh Satasiya. It was a great experience interacting with Student after so much time. Had a great time with them.  Thank you Kalpesh for being co-speaker at the event. There are more than 60 students there in the session.

Here are the topics we have covered:

1. What is the cloud?
2. What is Cloud Computing?
3. Life before Cloud
4. Virtualization and how virtualization works and lay foundation of any cloud technology.
5. Data centers and Server container
6. IAAS, PAAS and SAAS
7. Different Cloud services provided by Azure.
8. Overview of Azure portal.

Here are some the pics of the session.













 



And to my surprise, We got highlighted in Local News Paper Gandhinagar Samachar.



Thank you, my friend, Dr. Nidhi Divecha – The professor and Dr. Sanajy M. Shah – Director of SK Patel Institute of computer studies for being amazing host at college. Thank you, students, for listening and asking questions related to it. Overall it was a great experience!.

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Microsoft MVP 2016 and ASP.NET Community Stand-up link

July 1 is always been a special day in my life Because I eagerly wait for My MVP Status renewal and again this time also I have been awarded for Microsoft Most Valuable Professional 2016 for Visual Studio and Development. On July 1 I got the same email again which I was waiting for it eagerly.




On this occasion, I would like to thanks, Biplabl Paul and Gadharv Rawat for their constant support and guidance. I would also like to thanks, MvpAward team for considering me to become a Microsoft MVP. As always there has been great support from friends and family. Without their constant support, I am nothing. So thank you for the constant support family and friends.

Also, I would like to thanks my dear readers of the blog. Whatever I am today is due to readers of my blog. So thank you very much for the constant support and guidance.

ASP.NET Community Stand-up:

Recently before few days, I have written A blog post about How to create Rest API(Web API) with ASP.NET Core 1.0. I just recently came to know that it has been shown in ASP.NET Community Stand-up video as community links. This is a such a great appreciation from the makers of ASP.NET like Damien Edwards, Jon Galloway whom I admire most. Special thank Jon Galloway for the mentioning it on ASP.NET Community Stand-up videos. You can see that video at the following link.



Thanks again for everything. Stay tuned for more!!.

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I’m Microsoft MVP again. Thank you all

Today is one of the great day in my life. I’m again an Microsoft MVP for .NET and I’m happiest person on the earth and proud of it. Today’ I got this award for fourth time. Earlier I got this award for year 2010,2011 and 2012 for Visual C#.

I would like to thank all of you readers for making my blog so much popular. Thank you my family who has sacrificed lot of time for writing blog and other community activities. Also  I would like to Mention few people without their support and encouragement it would not have been possible. So special thanks to Mahesh Dhola, Kaushal Bhavsar, Ahmedabad .NET User group , Biplab Paul  and Gandharv Rawat.

I would also like to thank my current and previous Employers who has providing excellent opportunity to be part of .NET Technology world.



Thank you all!.  Stay tune fore more!!.

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DotNetJalps- My 600th blog post!!

I don’t know how I have reached there but woohoo!! I am writing my 600th blog post. I feel very proud writing this blog post. This is a great journey and I have learned lots of things during this great journey.

First of all I like to thank my family members my family members for continuous support they are providing me to maintain this blog and supporting that everything I do. On this occasion I would like to thank all the readers and visitors of this blog without your love and support I could not have been achieved what I am. You are the inspiration for me to writing blogs.



I would also like to thanks all my friends, colleagues and employers without there it was not possible to achieve this.

Again I would also like thank all the people who have ever read post , retweeted a  tweet,liked a facebook status, left a comment, repinned a pin, share a link of my blog and recommended a link  and a friend.

If you want to get this blog update on your email. Please subscribe to my blog feeds. My feeds link is

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

Thank you again for reading this..Stay tuned for more.

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Global Windows Azure boot camp 2013–Ahmedabad

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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My blog post appears on asp.net community spot light

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.

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Dotnetjalps.com- 551 blog posts and still counting!!

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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New Milestone for Dotnetjalps.com-500000 visits for my blog

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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Third year in a row- Microsoft MVP again!!

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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DotNetJalps 500th blog post- A milestone achieved.

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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Important Mile stone achieved–I got 4,00,000 visitors for my blog

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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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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