April 09, 2007
MVPs are individuals recognized by Microsoft as outstanding leaders in the technical community who make exceptional impacts on the IT industry by actively and voluntarily sharing their expertise in technical communities worldwide.

MVPs play a significant role as speakers, technical experts, and panel participants at industry events worldwide; they are the top, most expert posters in newsgroups; they lead some of the most recognized and heavily attended technical user groups. MVPs also contributed to the development of almost every Microsoft release including Microsoft Office 2007, Visual Studio 5 and Windows Vista.

Alireza Ahmadi - April 12, 2007
Alireza has been working with Now Horizons (Dubai and Kuwait) since 2002 as Trainer/Consultant for Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk Server and SharePoint technologies. He is one of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community in Gulf. Currently he works with New Horizons Kuwait as a training consultant for Microsoft related technologies. He analyses the client technical requirements and designs and customizes the training packages based on the client technical team background. His training sessions are not limited to the training materials. He always adds his real life experience to the training sessions. His current focus area is BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and SharePoint development. To know more about him you may check is personal website www.dotnetking.com

Alireza Ahmadi - June 21, 2006
Imagine you develop an ASP .NET application (it doesn’t matter if it is 1.x or 2.0). You use windows authentication (as recommended by experts!!) to connect to your SQL Server (2000 or 2005) database. By now it sounds good. Now imagine you want to deploy it on a production server. Here is the actual scenario. I am planning to explain the scenario and possible solutions for a proper deployment

Moustafa Arafa - April 10, 2006
On the first part we discussed in detail how to move our database which contains the membership tables from the default aspnetdb Database to our database. On this part we will show how to change the default settings of asp.net membership and role providers to read from tables which stored on our database.

Moustafa Arafa - November 22, 2006
On the first part we discussed in detail how to move our database which contains the membership tables from the default aspnetdb Database to our database. On this part we will show how to change the default settings of asp.net membership and role providers to read from tables which stored on our database.

Moustafa Arafa - March 20, 2007
Alot of developers is asking how can i connect to any oracle Backend,Is there any tools can be used for that ? and there's asking is there any tool integrated with VS IDE.

Moustafa Arafa - March 06, 2007
This post to give you some tips for Team Foundation server,i will answer for some FAQ related to TFS?

April 13, 2007
Quite a long time my clients have asked me to record the demos as off-line webcasts and multimedias. In a couple of my classes, my students have asked me to record these demos once and replay it in different classes.
Well, this section is an answer to their request. Here I am providing videos on how to do things in live examples of .NET, BizTalk Server, SharePoint and SQL Server.

We are pleased to announce the release of the first starter kits we have coming for WF and WCF on .NET Framework 3.0. These are planned to help developers new to these technologies to get started on their first project faster.

The starter kits are not supported by Microsoft but include full source code to common scenarios examples.

This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task oriented workflow in an ASP.NET web application. A workflow model is used to automate work order requests at a small example company. It includes three pre-defined roles which each play a part in the work order creation, approval and monitoring. The starter kit may be modified for other workflow models to suit other small web based task management systems.
This starter kit can be downloaded from MSDN here

The new Microsoft Visual Studio preview, code-named "Orcas" offers functionality with Language Integrated Query (LINQ), AJAX, and the .NET Framework 3.5.

Scott Cate illustrates how to implement key features of ASP.NET AJAX to a packed crowd at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.

Learn the basics of the Wizard control and see how it can be applied using a simple real life example.

Prashant Sridharan, group product manager for Visual Studio, discusses Microsoft's tool plans and other issues such as the level of developer talent available.

Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" will include exciting new tools and functionality for database management within Visual Basic and Visual C#, while maintaining continuity and connectivity with legacy DBMS.

A Microsoft researcher on Wednesday unveiled "Boku," an educational game designed to help children as young as five years old exercise their brains by doing programming.

The ability to work with arrays is important in any programming language. VB.NET offers a simple way of grouping data into the array structures similarly to other languages. In this article, you will look at array declaration and usage.

Discover the power behind state machine workflow and how it can be used to more closely match business and other processes.

Learn some of the differences between SQL stored procedures and scalar functions in .NET code from Wrox Professional SQL Server 2005 Programming author Robert Vieria.

The second annual Microsoft Gulf Developer Conference (GDC) has come to a close, proving to be a bigger and more successful event than the inaugural year.

Learn the basics of using ADO.NET in C# applications, as well as how to use a Data Grid control to display the data returned by the query.

Gulf Skyscrapers, the architect community for the gulf region, was launched at the recnet Geeks developer conference.

"The vision of Gulf Skyscrapers Community is to support IT professionals who are associated with or are interested in solutions, infrastructure, strategic and industry architecture. This community will offer a common place where experienced professionals can share their skills, knowledge, experiences & best practices with peers fostering self growth as well as to providing means for guidance and mentoring to those who are aspiring architects and want to learn the science and art of architecture that helps them and their organizations in building more scalable, reliable, secure and interoperable IT solutions."

Today at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference, 2007, Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft Silverlight®, a new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the Web. Early supporters of the new platform include Akamai, Brightcove, Eyeblaster, Limelight, Major League Baseball, Navisite, Netflix, Skinkers, Sonic Solutions, SyncCast, Tarari, Telestream, Winnov, and more.