Microsoft accounted Visual Studio Service Pack 1 today and it will be available for MSDN subscribers from tomorrow – 8^th March. General availability will be from 10^th March and we are still waiting to get the complete list of bug fixed and enhancements.

If you are a MSDN subscriber you can download the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

Stay tuned for the complete list of bug fixes and enhancements.

You can see the complete list of new features/ bug fixes part of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983509

Microsoft decided to put together a series of webcasts to help grow SharePoint 2010 in the area of Collaboration. While Business Collaboration is the primary focus of SharePoint 2010, it has lot of meanings under the hood. This webcast series been promoted all over the India and were expected to be very popular.

Microsoft arranged 05 webcasts over 05 days of period to help individuals to register and make them aware what SharePoint 2010 can do in the area of collaboration and what are the underlying features in SharePoint 2010 actually provides this powerful business collaboration.

I got an opportunity to present in my favorite are of workflow development and I did a session named “SharePoint 2010 and Custom Workflows” which demonstrated all the key things in the workflow services in SharePoint 2010 which makes collaboration better. I saw more than 300 participants were online for the session and that was a very good no for an online event.

The complete list of session can be found here:

Virtual Tech Days is an online event targeted for the people who do not have time for attending in person for large conferences such as Tech-Ed and Community Tech Days. The other idea behind hosting Virtual Tech Days is to leverage Microsoft’s Unified Infrastructure to prove its capabilities.

Today I got an opportunity to take part of Virtual Tech Days to show my capabilities in the area of SharePoint. This was the 1^st time I did a public online session using Live Meeting technology and it was very surprised to see more than 500 participants online.

I delivered a session called “SharePoint 2010 and Custom Workflows” which demonstrated the integration with Visio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 in the Business Process Management vertical within SharePoint.

See the complete list of sessions we executed over 03 days of time and try downloading session recordings from http://www.virtualtechdays.com/agendaDay1.aspx

My session can be found from http://www.virtualtechdays.com/agendaDay2.aspx

Microsoft Tech-Ed India 2010 is considered as the major Technology event of the year for various IT Professionals and Developers. This year Tech-Ed is very important and remarkable because we are going to launch Visual Studio 2010 during the event. This event will feature a comprehensive forum in order to learn, connect, explore, and evolve the current technologies we have today.

What I heard during the 2^nd week of March that they had more than 2500 registrations and they closed the registration in the last week of March. It shows how people are looking forward for this event and above all this is happening in the IT Hub in India-Bangalore.

I’m very much pleased to announce that I’m presenting at the Tech-Ed and I encourage attending both the sessions. Following are the sessions I have aligned for you:

Session 1: Deploying web apps at the speed of your thinking
Date: 12^th April                  Time: 05.00pm – 06.00pm

Visual Studio 2010 offers web deployment as an easy walk-through. With its one click deployment model, deploying your applications becomes a seamless experience. Walk into this session where we will take a pretty big application and get it deployed with all the dependent stuff easily, using Visual Studio 2010.

Session 2: SharePoint 2010 Workflows
Date: 14^th April                  Time: 12.30pm – 01.30pm

Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list based workflows. Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Organizations usually rely on software developers to create these workflows using code. Not anymore! With SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite solutions on your SharePoint sites. SharePoint Designer’s workflows let you design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio! In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval, and also how you can reuse your workflows in other lists and libraries on your site and how to prototype workflows in SharePoint Designer for further development in Visual Studio 2010.

Come and join with me for this big, challenging event and let’s Learn, Connect, Explore what’s going to come in this year 2010.

This is my 2nd Tech-Ed speaking engagement in year 2010.

I always enjoy presenting in .NET Forum and I got another opportunity to present before I take off to Tech-Ed India. Today I presented the session on “Data-Tier Application Project in Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2“.

Though it’s kind of holiday season there was an average crowd and it was very interactive session too. Lot of guys were impressed about this new feature and there were lot queries about the technology.

I covered all the aspect of this new “Data-Tier Application Project in Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2” and planning to talk about it again when the final release available for the public.

If you are interested about the PPT deck here it is for your further reference.

Just 01 more days left for the big IT Conference in Sri Lanka after 3+ years. I’m damn busy with preparing for my sessions though I’m suffering with cold.

I though it’s better if I could share the agenda of my sessions just in case if it’s confusing or difficult to locate my sessions in the agenda.

Come and join with me to discover the power of new technologies.