Windows Phone 7 Mango Features Update Details !

Hi Everyone,

In this post, I am gonna share with you all about the exciting updates of Windows Phone 7 Mango. 🙂

Microsoft has integrated  Twitter, Facebook Chat, Windows Live Messenger and other popular social networking sites into the OS itself.

The feature in which it will bring in all your messages from IMs, Facebook, SMS’s right in one Inbox is called Thread Feature . Microsoft has also introduced Unified Inbox, which will allow users to read emails from multiple Email ids from one place only. It looks interesting 😀

Microsoft Student Partners Experience

Hi Guys,

Today, I am gonna share my Microsoft Student Partners Experience with you all. First of all, I would like to tell you about the Microsoft Student Partners Program. 🙂

The Microsoft Student Partners ( MSP ) program is a vibrant, global community of technology enthusiasts who love to learn and share technology with their peers. Being a Microsoft Student Partner enables MSP’s to be at the very leading edge of technology- to learn straight from the experts and then share it with peers in different colleges, cities or regions. 😛 MSPs also get a chance to attend various prestigious events organized by Microsoft, and support and encouragement from Microsoft to organize events in their college and city. One can also be able to interact with like-minded students across the country and have lots of fun along the way. 🙂

Build a Windows Phone 7 Application using Telerik Controls

Hi guys,

Telerik is running an awesome offer for user groups in conjunction with Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions.

Build a Windows Phone 7 application and the first 500 submissions from user group members will get a onetime donation of 100 USD for their group !

Well, this offer is for the User Groups only.

If you want to participate, then there are 3 steps:

1.       Develop a Windows Phone 7 app using Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone

2.       Submit your application to WP7 marketplace.

3.       Ask your user group leader to notify Telerik (usergroupcompetition@telerik.com) of your published application and the user group will receive 100 USD to help in its annual expenditures.

Quick facts:

• You keep the application!
• Multiple members from a group can submit as many entries as they like, as long as they are within first 500
• Contest ends June 2011
• Submit questions & applications to usergroupcompetition@telerik.com.

Full details can be found here.

This is a really great opportunity to get some cash to your group, so please encourage your members by email or newsletter from now through June.

Enjoy 🙂

Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2011 – Nagpur Experience !!

Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2011 Nagpur was a very memorable experience in my life. Enjoyed a lot and really, it has changed my life altogether and I even made some really good friends. Well, Talking about the efforts “MSP team in Nagpur” had taken, they made this event a Grand Success. 🙂 🙂

The Event held in G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering on 17th Feb. Almost 7000+ Site Hits – 3000 SMS – 1300 Check in’s – More than 800 Phone Calls – 100 Mails – 50 Volunteers – 47 Colleges – 18 days – 10 MSP’s – 4 Cities, this is what speaks of the success of the complete event. 🙂

Everything was executed very well..!! I have given many seminars ( technical ) before this DreamSpark Yatra, but this experience was really different. We had organized two DreamSpark Yatra’s on a single day. Talking to the audience of 60-70 people is one thing and talking in front of the crowd of 750 people is totally different. I was a little nervous before the seminar. Hmm.. Well, I chose the topic of “Microsoft Kodu – The Ultimate Gaming Lab” for my session. 😉

It is freaking awesome if you have interest in the Gaming Side with no programming skills.
The Morning session was very good. I am not telling this myself ( Verified by the response I got after the session  ) . Everybody was so keen about the topic and looked very interested. 😀

Many sessions were held under DreamSpark Yatra. Mr. Sachid Deshmukh from Microsoft came all the way from Hyderabad to take a session on Windows Phone 7. The session was good but frankly speaking, Participants were not showing much of the interest in the session as the it contained all the business standards, marketplaces and many things which the attendees didnt like. But overall, a great session 🙂

Many quiz questions were put forward to the attendees during the gaps between the sessions to give them a chance to win some cool exciting goodies and prizes. ( Goodies – Microsoft Software DVD’s and even some Microsoft T-shirts for a little harder questions  ) .

The second session also contained the same seminars as those in the first session.  It also went great. 🙂

Microsoft Kinect Demo was the most exciting part of the whole DreamSpark Yatra .Everybody was very keen to come and play the games on the Kinect and Crowd was also supporting them. It was really a great atmosphere there
I really enjoyed being a part of the organizing committee of DreamSpark Yatra, Nagpur. Before 2 days of DreamSpark Yatra I was feeling unwell and wasn’t really in a position to even attend the event. But yes, I attended it, took a session myself and felt awesome after that! 😀

Talking about the funny things that happened during the DreamSpark Yatra,

• Got an opportunity to talk and befriend many Girls.
• Right now I am known as Kodubaba after taking the session on Microsoft Kodu .  lol!
• After 5-6 days, I got a call at 11pm from one of the attendees. He was asked whether they can show their 4th sem project in Microsoft Kodu!!

I was shocked to listen to the question. ha ha ha !! But really nice to even receive compliments for what you taught!
The Best thing about the DreamSpark Yatra was that I found one *beautiful* girl in the crowd of the audience. But didnt get a chance to interact with her. I could feel her looking at me many times but since I got stuck up somewhere, I could not show my attention towards her. 😛 Dont know why? 😐 Still, I am sure, I will definitely find her sometime, somewhere. Dont know her name though but have her name in the list of the whole Attendees  *Need some extra efforts to find that name* hehe. Note: Always think positive  Well, even she can contact me in the future  haha! 😀

So, it was one hell of an experience of my life and I will cherish each and every moment of it whether it was happy, emotional, unhealthy, healthy .  I can now say that this event was one of the Greatest Technical Event that has been organized in Nagpur *Yayness Feeling* 😀

Well, if I continue talking about this, I will never stop  But I need to do some projects too. *Very Important* Really!! *sigh*

So, cutting short. This was the experience of the Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2011, Nagpur.
Keep checking for further updates and yes, after a long time I have written this post! Again Awesomeness feeling, Thanks to *someone*

You can check the pics of the Event as follows:

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Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2011 Nagpur

Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra – Nagpur is Microsoft India initiative to empower students who are passionate about technology to get an insightful overview of the current trends in the software industry. As a part of this national campaign, we bring the brightest students and professionals of the IT world and put them right in front of you – to discuss about technology, careers in computer science, give technical presentations and some exciting demos.

It is going to be conducted in Nagpur by Nagpur User Group – A Group formed by Microsoft Student Partners. Registration is free of cost. Every Participant will get a Certificate and Professional Developer tools free of cost from Microsoft. Participants will also get a chance to witness interesting Demo of Kinect for Xbox 360.

You can Register for the Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra from http://www.dsyatranagpur.com .

Poster for the Event is attached below:

Enjoy 🙂