may 2012 - MVP 2012 Party in Microsoft

Simran Chaudhry (at the very right and bottom of this picture) is the Microsoft community program manager and the MVP lead, Miguel Carrasco (the blue shirt) is the UX expert and digital marketing director at Microsoft and many other Microsoft employees celebrating the new MVPs in Microsoft. Amir Ahani is the C# MVP for the year of 2012.

Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial, objective feedback to help people enhance the way they use technology. Of more than 100 million users who participate in technology communities, around 4,000 are recognized as Microsoft MVPs.

MVPs make exceptional contributions to technical communities, sharing their passion, knowledge, and know-how. Meanwhile, because MVPs hear the opinions and needs of many others in the technical community, they are well-placed to share highly focused feedback with Microsoft.

MVPs are independent experts who are offered a close connection with people at Microsoft. To acknowledge MVPs' leadership and provide a platform to help support their efforts, Microsoft often gives MVPs early access to Microsoft products, as well as the opportunity to pass on their highly targeted feedback and recommendations about product design, development, and support.

may 2012 - dev teach 2012

Amir Ahani presented some advanced topics regarding the XAML and WPF at DevTeach in Vancouver. DevTeach stands for Developers Teaching. It is a conference done by developers for developers. It offers the elements of an international conference and the elements of a community event.

April 2012 -

Scott Guthrie is a corporate vice president in Microsoft, where he is responsible for delivering the development platform for Windows Azure, as well as the .NET Framework and Visual Studio technologies used in building Web and server applications.

As a founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the Microsoft developer space since 1998. Today, Guthrie manages the development teams that build the developer platform for Windows Azure, Windows AppFabric Server, BizTalk Server, IIS, ASP.NET, WCF, WF and the Web, and Web Service and Workflow features of Visual Studio.

Amir Ahani asked about the integration of SharePoint and Azure and Scott briefly explained how these two technologies play together.

April 2012 - vancouver technology festival

Vancouver Technology Festival is an event for community of software developers. All speakers should provide the content with the code to the attendees. Amir Ahani from Huma Solutions presented the High Performance multi-threaded multi core design with Visual Studio 2010/2011, TPL and PLINQ. In this talk, he compared the performance of different applications when different versions of .net and TPL library are used.

April 2012 - .net bc

Amir Ahani talked about Visual Studio 2011 Must Have Tools in .netBC group. The following tools were discussed in this presentation: ComponentOne, Telerik .NET UI Controls, NDepend, Visual AssistX, CodeRush, ANTS Profiler, .NET Reflector, LINQPad, SWIFT 3D, and D3 Chart.