MUGH February UG Meet

We had UG meet yesterday and 20 turned up out of 58 registrations. As the capacity of the training room is 16, we are happy about the number. Though its working day and announced just before one day, it’s good that you people turned and I am the event organizer who made it happened.



I hope all of you have enjoyed the other side of the indexes session, how to provide simple solutions to ancient problems. I can say it as smart solutions to complex problems. Even I learned how effectively we can apply indexes and optimize query performance.



Select * or Select columns which one faster?

UG Meet action Items:
Blog about what you learned so that others who missed can know about it.
Share the knowledge; it will in turn help you to grow by your self.
When I started blogging, at that time, less writers more readers,now we have more readers and more writers. Be active in the community.
We decided to have UG meet bimonthly.

Thanks to Pinal, the Speaker, though he is busy when I asked him for the Sql Session, he made it happended, Harish Ranganthan for his time for arranging the venue.




I hope you enjoyed my recent series of articles on VS2010. Visual Studio team liked them and I got excellent feedback for these articles. Thanks for all of your support and taking time to read them. Now they are featured on MSDN blog.

This makes me happier and contributes more for the community.
[UPDATE]

Pinal has nice post on this.You can find it here

Visual Studio 2010 Series

DotnetSlackers has published my articles on VS2010, please check this link that explains on VS2010 new features.
The features are explained in a very clear manner to be understandable to the beginner also.

VS2010 IDE enhancements are explained in detail

The features of Code improvements, Code intellisence, Consume first, Pascal Casing search and intellisense, Call Hierarchy ,Highlight references are explained in depth.

VS2010 series of articles
Part2
In this article I explained Multi monitor support, Multi targeting, Parallel Development, Side by Side execution, Backward compatibility and SqlServer 2008 integration.

Part3
Part 3 In this article I am going to explain Add Reference enhancements for developers, Windows 7 support for developers, Share Point 2010 enhancements , Office Business Application Support, Cloud Development, Document Map Margin and Visual Studio 2010 Tips.

Please feel free to tweet or dig this, feedback on the article, if you find that article is interesting.

This is because of my hard work and time that I have spent on this during weekends.
I am thankful to my family, parents and in-laws, friends who is constantly supporting and encouraging me.

[UPDATE]
I am very happy to share that These articles are featured in MSDN

Microsoft Expression now comes as part of MSDN

Based on the feedbackExpression Blend and Expression Web (the two tools that developers will have some relation to) will be part of the MSDN Premium subscriptions.

For those who have a Visual Studio Team Suite subscription level, the entire Expression Studio (with the other two products – Expression Design and Expression Media) will also be available.

What is this Expression??
Microsoft Expression is a pack of graphics programs from Microsoft for developers as well as designers. It consists of

Microsoft Expression Web (Quartz) - Software for designing web sites.
Microsoft Expression Blend (Sparkle) - Software for designing user interfaces based on WPF.
Microsoft Expression Design (Acrylic) - Software for editing graphics such as raster,Vecor etc.
Microsoft Expression Media - Software to manage digital media.