Global Windows Azure Bootcamp

Windows Azure enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft managed datacenters. Join us for the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp! On April 27th, 2013 and explore capabilities of Windows Azure.           Agenda highlights:           •   Windows Azure Overview •   Windows Azure IaaS: Technical Overview. •   Storage Options in Windows Azure. •   Deep Dive into Windows Azure Mobile Services. •   Windows Azure Big Data - HDInsight •   Building Hybrid Cloud Environment using Windows Azure & System Center           Session details:           Day & Time Saturday, 27th April, 2013 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM   Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd. Bhageerath, 402, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune, 411016, Maharashtra, India                 Click here to register for event and agenda details.   if You are not from Pune and want to be part of this BootCamp then visit our global website to serach for your nearest location - https://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/

PUG I Love Windows Phone Contest

Express your love for Windows Phone and win cool exciting prizes.

Pune User Group is hosting a contest for all the enthusiasts who love Windows Phone. All you need to do is submit a simple video expressing your love for Windows Phone and you can win a Windows Phone device or free entry to Microsoft Tech-ed India.
Competition Guidelines :
Key dates of competition :

Competition open for Entries :   14th February 2012Competition closed for Entries : 29th February 2012Announcement of the winners : 10th March 2012

PUG Community TechDays (IT Pro Track) Jan 2012

Date: Saturday, 21st Jan, 2012

 

Time: 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

 

Venue

MCCIA ‘s Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium
(Ground Floor)
MCCIA Trade Tower, A-Wing,
International Conventional Center,
403, Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune, 411 016,
India

4 Days Free Training on Windows Phone Application Development

Get ready to accelerate your learning with guidance from experts and win Windows Phone Device. Check out the practical examples and learn to compute, develop and build applications  for Windows Phone, the easy way. Pune User Group is coming up with a new 4 Days Training program "iunlockjoy - PUG Windows Phone Development Training Program", an event where professionals can learn all about the Windows Phone Application Development.

Microsoft Tech Ed India 2011

PUG Live Webcasts - An exclusive series of webcasts by Pune User Group

We are pleased to announce the launch of PUG Live Webcasts, an initiative by PUG team through which you will enjoy series of Webcasts on various Microsoft technologies. We are starting with Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Development series; very soon we will be coming up with SharePoint 2010, Silverlight and many more technologies.

for more details visit http://www.puneusergroup.org/live-webcasts.aspx

Office 2010 Community launch in Pune

Office 2010 another major revolution in Microsoft's most cutting edge technologies is here to get your work done the easy way. Check out the latest news and views on Office 2010 from the experts, attend Office 2010 Community launch event hosted by Pune User Group.
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 - Sat, 7 Aug 2010
Time: 09:00:AM - 01:00:PM

Microsoft IndiMix 2010

Microsoft IndiMIX 2010 - An exclusive Conference for Web Developers and Designers building some of the world’s most innovative Websites.

The web belongs to you. Whether you're a developer or designer, or a little bit of both, together we build the most powerful and innovative websites that the world uses and loves.
Attend IndiMIX 2010 and….

PUG Developer Summit 2010

PUG Developer Summit 2010 is an event for developers to gain and share knowledge on the cutting edge technologies. Along with the interesting interactive sessions, this time we are presenting some out of the box topics like Concept Visualization. You will get a chance to meet the industry gurus and explore the intricacies of working on Mobile Devices with SharePoint 2010. You will experience some of the coolest features of upcoming release of Silverlight 4 and WCF. . You will see how Visual Studio 2010 can give you a whole new development experience. So be there to feel the technology on…

16th January, 2010 9:00 am...

Unit Testing Databases Using VSTS DB Edition

 

As Part of MSDN Webcast series today i hosted my third webcast on “ Unit Testing Databases Using VSTS DB Edition”.

you can download my presentation from following link…

http://www.cognitioninfotech.com/downloads/Unit%20Testing%20Databases%20Using%20VSTS%20DB%20Edition.pdf

Code Metrics for Manageable Source Code

Today i hosted a webcast at Microsoft on "Code Metrics for Manageable Source Code" .
you can download ppt from following link
http://www.cognitioninfotech.com/downloads/Code%20Metrics%20for%20Manageable%20Source%20Code.pdf
In today's webcast we covered

Unit Testing and Test Driven Development Using VSTS

 

Last Thursday (17th December, 2009) I hosted a webcast on Unit Testing and Test Driven Development Using VSTS at Microsoft.

I am sharing my Presentation here… I will be posting an article with all details very soon… (once am done with all webcast :) )  till that time you can download ppt from following link…

http://www.cognitioninfotech.com/downloads/Unit%20Testing%20and%20Test%20Driven%20Development%20Using%20VSTS.pdf

Now this Thursday (24th December) I will be hosting webcast on “Code Metrics for Manageable Source Code”, will share demo and ppt very soon..

Windows Azure workshop in Pune

 

for more details visit http://www.puneusergroup.org/windows-azure-workshop.aspx

PUG DevCon 2009 Final Session list

Finally we are done with list of all  sessions in PUG DevCon 2009 which is planned on 8th and 9th August, 2009

you can check event website at http://devcon.puneusergroup.org  for event details

so here is the final list of topics decided for PUG DevCon 2009

• Inside the guts of .NET 4.0 – Part I
• Inside the guts of .NET 4.0 – Part II
• Introduction to the Azure Services Platform
• Silverlight internals & Expression Blend 3
• Office for developers
• Using ADO.NET Data Services
• Silverlight for Developers
• Parallel Computing APIs with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Developing MVC based web apps using ASP.NET MVC 1.0
• Using Data Mining for Analyzing Data, Predictions and Forecasting
• Overview of Windows Azure
• Visual Studio 2010: Making your day easier
• Living on Live Services – Introduction to Microsoft Live Framework
• What’s New in C# 4.0 and VB 10
• Developing AJAX application for Windows mobile
• Team Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 and Team Foundation Server
• Rapid application development using Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 [Level 200]
• PowerShell - Use it, Extend It, Embed It

Announcing PUG DevCon 2009.

I am pleased to announce Pune User Group’s most important event of the year,

PUG DevCon 2009

This year we are hosting PUG DevCon 2009 on

8th & 9th August, 2009

2 days, 2 parallel Tracks and total 16 sessions on various Microsoft Technologies by industry experts…

I will be posting more details about agenda very soon…

keep your eyes open…

you can also follow Pune User Group on Twitter / Face book / LinkedIn  here are the URLs

http://twitter.com/puneusergroup

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pune-India/Pune-User-Group/

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2023294

and

PUG’s official website http://www.puneusergroup.org

Microsoft Community Tech.Ed on the Road – 20th June, 2009 in Pune

GET SET FOR THE TECH.ED ROAD SHOW SERIES - Tech.Ed on the Road 2009. Pune User Group is now conducting  TECH-ED on the Road on 20th June 2009 to let you experience the same enthusiasm of Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2009 and connect with technology experts right in your city. session for IT Pros - Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Virtualization 360– Technical Overview, Windows Client Windows Server 2008 NAP– Better Together  Sessions for Developers - What’s New in Silverlight 3, Windows 7 for Developers, Welcome to ASP.NET 4.0 with VS2010 2 TRACKS, 6 SESSIONS BACK2BACK !!!

Attend Tech.Ed on the Road 2009 and Win exciting prizes like Windows Vista Ultimate 4 GB USB drives Microsoft Press Books, T-shirts, Caps, Pens and lots more...

Calling all IT pros, project managers, IT managers and developers for the next wave of Tech.Ed 2009. Entry FREE !! Registration Required. For more information and Registration, Please visit : http://www.puneusergroup.org/teched-on-the-road.aspx Hurry up and Register Today !! For any queries/suggestions, Please contact us at: techedindia2009@puneusergroup.org Venue: International Convention Centre, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411016

Microsoft Announces New Zune HD Portable Media Player

Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, “Zune HD”.

finally Microsoft came up with something which I can compare with I-pod, I am using Zune almost more than one n half years now, and I am very happy with its experience but still I always feel that there are many things missing in my Zune, and i feel this strongly when 2-3 months back my friend Vikram(VB) came back from US and I saw his i-pod with all these touch features, so many applications installed in it, wi-fi, browser, contacts list etc. I was always thinking that Microsoft should add all these things in Zune and Today my dream came in reality, Microsoft announced its New Zune  called “Zune HD”, along with Premium Zune digital entertainment service via XBox Live.

 

Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser.

some New Features -

Touch screen :The bright OLED touch screen interface allows users to flip through music, movies and other content with ease, and the 16:9 widescreen format display (480x272 resolution) offers a premium viewing experience on the go.

HD Radio: Zune HD comes with a built-in HD Radio receiver so users can listen to higher-quality sound than traditional radio on the go. Users also will have access to the additional song and artist data broadcast by HD Radio stations as well as additional channels from their favorite stations multicasting in HD. If you don’t like the song playing on your station’s HD channel, switch to its HD2 or HD3 channels for additional programming.

HD Video Out:The HD-compatible output lets Zune HD customers playback supported HD video files from the device through a premium high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) audiovisual docking station (sold separately) direct to an HD TV in 720p

Wireless: Zune HD is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing for instant streaming to the device from the more than 5 million-track Zune music store.

Web-browser: Zune HD will include a full-screen Internet browser optimized for multitouch functionality.

 

these are some key features announced by Microsoft, hope Zune HD will come up with more and more features inside it.

Reference links :

 http://www.zune.net/ZuneHD

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/may09/05-26ZuneHDPR.mspx

Tech.Ed India 2009, Summary of Community activities

  From Sanjay Shetty’s Live Space

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TechEd India 2009, Summary of Community activities

To summarize: In my 10+ years of community engagement, I would say, TechEd India 2009 was the most successful in terms of community involvement. As beautiful as the famous Charminar of Hyderabad. (see picture on left).

Organizations like INETA APAC, Culminis, PASS and Microsoft India, jointly engaged in bringing all user group leaders together, promoting the respective user groups and enabling great networking opportunities between the leaders and attendees of TechEd India.

 

Background:

About 1 month before TechEd volunteers from INETA APAC, Culminis, PASS, Microsoft India team, and Microsoft UGSS, formed the India Community Council(ICC),  an initiative spearheaded by Microsoft User Group Support Services(UGSS). The objective was to align the efforts of the various organizations in a country and to explore areas of synergy. TechEd was the perfect ground to see the power of the ICC. And they definitely proved their mettle. Further invaluable help was provided by Ashwin Kini, the Culminis APAC chair.

 

A plan was made to engage the community along the ideas stated in the left column below:

1. Encourage community participation pre-TechEd	1.With Microsoft India’s help, a discount of 25% was negotiated for all User group members wishing to attend TechEd. 1.1. A template was made available to leaders via which they could announce this benefit to members. 1.2. Members interested in the offer were given a survey url to indicate their interest. A day before TechEd volunteers provided this list to TechEd event agency to ensure at time of payment, members got 25% discount. (Despite the severe recession 65 community members took advantage of this offer). 2. ICC members were given free entry. 3. INETA APAC(facebook, Spaces), Culminis blogs, sites announced benefits for the community, and mailers + phone calls were made to all UG leaders.
2. Promote all User Groups of (INETA APAC, Culminis & PASS), create awareness of these organizations, MVP Program and Microsoft UGSS, ensure all attendees are aware of the above.	1. A Community Booklet was created, containing details of all user groups in India, via efforts of ICC + other volunteers. A professional company was engaged(Printo), their help was invaluable. Community booklet was included in the attendee kits, ensuring all are aware of the various user groups across India. In addition, UG leaders were provided Community booklets, so that they could distribute it to their group members.
3. Engage TechEd Attendees, Promote leaders and groups, create buzz and encourage at least 10% of TechEd audience.	1. Two contests were organized. 1.1 Culminis, INETA APAC, PASS, Leader Hunt Contest for TechEd India 2009. Enabled attendee interaction with all leaders(Culminis, INETA APAC, PASS) who are present at TechEd. Approximately 300 attendees participated. 1.2 INETA APAC True or False Contest. Enabled attendees to be aware of INETA APAC benefits and sign up as volunteers.  Approximately 300 attendees participated. 1.3 There was also a dart game where a lots of goodies(Stress balls, T-shirts, Caps) were given to attendees. The queue at the dart game counter was just amazing. (The Xbox guys helped by providing part of their booth to enable this.)
4. Networking opportunity for speakers, attendees, UG leaders, volunteers.	An exclusive Community Evening was organized, primary sponsor was Microsoft UGSS, Culminis and INETA APAC also partly sponsored the same.  Networking, free beer and munchies. It was an evening attended by close to 100 people (consisting of leaders, members, speakers and Microsoft personnel). The ICC members were formally introduced to the attendees. The entrance to this exclusive event was guarded by our enthusiastic leaders/volunteers Nauzad, Surendra Mishra and Pinalkumar Dave followed by turns by other volunteers.
5. Involve 3rd party speakers, Microsoft Regional Directors, other valuable speakers etc.	Pre-TechEd, behind the scenes I was involved in getting 3rd party speakers, such as Sanjay Vyas, Dr. Nitin Paranjpe, Raj Chaudhuri, Meena K and Ranganathan S. In addition, Microsoft RD’s like Praveen Srivatsa, Venkatarangan TNC, also delivered some fantastic sessions.
6. Leader Summit	One of the things local Microsoft encouraged was to engage leaders much more, and in order to help with that, they offered free entry to TechEd for all leaders of groups in India. The ICC capitalized this wonderful opportunity and informed all leaders, in addition, INETA APAC and Culminis sponsored leader accommodation at TechEd, since quite a few leaders were attending this proved to be hugely beneficial, about 14 leaders attended this special summit, along with leading MVP’s. It was held on day 2 of TechEd for about 2 hours. INTEA APAC, Culminis and PASS shared their plans for FY10 with leaders. Additionally, Culminis, INETA APAC, PASS representatives, respectively met up with their group leaders in separate meetings.
7. Upcoming mini-UG TechEd’s in 8 cities.	Microsoft announced their support to Community, UG led, mini-TechEd’s in 8 cities. These will be targeting both IT Pro’s and Developers. Topics that are being delivered are:  IT Pro: Win Server 2008 R2; Virtualization; Exchange server Developer: WIN 7; IE 8 /SL3 & Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft would enable UG leaders to get content from TechEd on the above + leaders are encouraged to have local speakers for whom virtual training could be provided. INETA APAC, Culminis, and UGSS could support funding of these Community TechEd’s.
8. Special Session for UG leaders	Concept Visuals – presentation by Sanjay Vyas was an exclusive introduction to leaders on how Concept Visuals helps in easy learning + presenting of any information. The best comment after the session which I heard from a leader was “I was doing Windows programming for 6 years and now I finally understand what’s happening”. It was an eye opener for all.
9. New User Groups support	Hyderabad – Soni Somarajan and Srinivas B.N. were two new potential leaders who stepped up to help with Hyderabad UG. Patna – Monika Jha(encouraged by UG leader Surendra Mishra) has decided to start the Patna User Group, focused on UI/Designing Agra – Similarly, INETA APAC volunteer Mahesh Mitkari, is working with a potential new leader in Agra.
10. Goodies for UG leaders and their members	On the last day, UG leaders were given giveaways to take back to their user group communities, which they could utilize at the upcoming mini-TechEd’s. ICC members and volunteers, put their hands together to coordinate these efforts.
11. UG content in localized languages	Microsoft is helping encourage submission of information in localised languages, so far I believe, there are volunteers for Gujarati, Kannada, Hindi and hopefully the upcoming mini-UG TechEd’s will bring many more languages to the fore. These video recordings would be promoted across the country.

Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2009 – Day I

Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2009 started with a keynote speech delivered by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive, Microsoft Corporation.

around 10:00 am Agni started performing Tech.Ed Song, while they were ending Tech.Ed song SteveB entered on the stage with his super energetic aura.

some key points of his speech

he started he talk with talking about the economy.

he mentioned that every person in IT should tell himself every night that he made right choice by selected IT as his carrier.

Pharma, Energy Science all evolving with innovation in Information Technology.

IT Departments have been under pressure with "Do more, with less". Customers can Save money by deploying new tech, moving to more RAD Platform. Dynamic IT is more about "Do more, with less optimization".

Windows 7  and Win Server 2008 R2 to be available by Christmas Win Vista was most "talked" about OS  :) Win Mobile 6.5 to debut this year.

SharePoint is becoming Microsoft’s most revenue generating product.

during QA session SteveB steps down from the stage into the audience to take questions.

there was a question for dates of Windows Azure release dates – no direct answer from SteavB but a big hint towards PDC 2009. while answering another question about Silvelright on mobile phone SteaveB mention that Silverlight Mobile being developed from Microsoft's India Dev Center at Hyderabad .

SteveB mentioned that India is the place where most of people get trained on Computer Science  Technology and after Redmond Hyderabad development Center is words 2nd largest center for Microsoft, while answering one Question “why he choose India Tech.Ed and not US Tech.Ed this time.

that's all from SteavB key note

after that we moved to Community Zone, lots of fun there at Community Zone, all My MVP friends, UG Leads few Ms Employees were there 4 unconferance session in a day, nice sessions by my friends Vikram on sliverlight, Pinal, Amit and Jacob on SQL Server.

we also recorded small session in regional languages where we talked about Microsoft technology in our languages like Telagu, Marathi, Gujrathi etc, this will carry on tomorrow also.

mean while I got chance to attend very nice session on my favorite BizTalk RFID, a session was going on in Technology tent and fortunately I was just going by that way so I come to know about session, as this session was not printed on agenda paper, don't know why ?, but really nice discussion with BizTalk RFID Team from IDC also got some secret info about BizTalk Mobile is working with Web services and MSMQ on Mobile platform. its NDA info so cant post here… but very interesting…  tomorrow there is a session on BizTalk RFID 2009 and SharePoint, am going to attend them for sure…

We got very nice response at Community Zone, where we hosted  a Quiz and Hunt leader contest. we distributed lots of goodies like INETA/Culminis/PASS pens, t-shirts, caps, stress bolls etc.

rush at Community Zone…

there were lots of very nice session at Tech.Ed but unfortunately i was able to attend only one Technical session, but tomorrow for sure i will attend more…

and our day 1 ended with nice bear party “ Mobile Developer night”

Unconferance Sessions at Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2009

Tech.ED India is starting Tomorrow.. the UnConference is already popular place to be at...

Here are some of the sessions that have been decided by popular voting:

Wednesday, May 13

1:00 - 2:00 Groove is the best medicine for difficult times - Ashok Hingorani

3:00 - 4:00 Silverlight 2 & 3 Core CLR - Vikram Pendse

4:00 - 5:00 SQL Server 2008 Management Studio New Features - Pinal Dave

5:00 - 6:00 XML Support in SQL Server 2008 - Jacob Sebastin

6:00 - 7:00 Policy Based Management in SQL Server 2008 - Amit Bansal

Thursday, May 14

1:00 - 2:00 What's New in Silverlight 3 - Vikram Pendse

2:00 - 3:00 Developing using Silverlight3 Controls - Chaitra Nagraj

3:00 - 4:00 Data Services - Chaitra Nagraj

4:00 - 5:00 Improving Application Installation UX in Windows 7 - Vijay Raj

5:00 - 6:00 SQL Server 2008 Beyond Relational - Arun Balachandran

Friday, May 15

12:00 - 1:00 Getting started with Oslo - Mehfuz Hossain

1:00 - 2:00 Using Office 2007 effectively - Top 10 issues - Nitin Paranjpe

3:00 - 4:00 IIS 7 for Devs and Admins - Mohd Abdul Muqeet Khan 4:00 - 5:00 High Availability in SQL Server 2008 – Satya

5:00 - 6:00 Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008: Notes & Best Practices - Satya

Apart from these sessions, TechEd Attendees will get an opportunity to present as well. If you want to present at UnConference, please enter your name at Community Pavilion in TechEd India.