Adil's Weblog

Speaking at Windows 7 for Geeks

2010-03-09T09:49:00.001+05:00

For last few months, I was quite busy with my responsibilities at work and post graduation studies and due to that I was unable to make any community engagement. I’m glad to announce that this week I will be speaking in the event “Windows 7 for Geeks” organized by Emerging .NET Devs. To read further details or attend the event, click here.

Microsoft Courier : Digital Journal

2010-03-06T12:57:00.001+05:00

Around 12 hours back, Engadget shared exclusive pictures and video of upcoming Microsoft Courier (tablet/digital journal/ebook device), which they came to know from an “extremely trusted source” :) The device seems spectacular to me and personally I think seems better than iPad ;) As per the Engagdet “it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7

Microsoft Ajax Minifier

2010-03-04T11:28:00.001+05:00

One good thing I came across at the Microsoft MVP Summit is that Microsoft released Ajax Minifier, a tool to compress the size of Javascript (.JS) and Cascading Style Sheets (.CSS) files. Later I found a Scott Gu post on it. The Microsoft Ajax Minifier is a small tool to remove unnecessary content from your js or css file. It can bring down the size of js file by 60%. You can download the Ajax

Currently Reading: CLR via C#, 3rd Edition

2010-02-24T01:43:00.001+05:00

Hey folks, Last week I visited USA to attend Global MVP Summit 2010 and I make sure that I purchase a copy of recently released CLR via C# 3/e by Jeffrey Richter published by Microsoft Press. The book is a MUST READ for all .NET developers and provides an insight on .NET Framework 4.0 that includes Framework Class Libraries (FCL) as well as Common Language Runtime (CLR). Book Description “

MVP Summit 2010 – Day 4

2010-02-23T06:34:00.001+05:00

Day 4 was the last day of the Summit, I wonder how fast these days passed by. But the good thing about day 4 was that we had free time to hang out with other MVPs and to get out of the hotel and campus (H) after 3 PM. In the morning, we attended some great keynotes specially the one by Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President - Research and Development - Online Services Division, talking about some

MVP Summit 2010 – Day 3

2010-02-23T01:14:00.001+05:00

Day 3 was almost the same like Day 2, the deep dive learning and feedback sessions were scheduled at Microsoft Campus, Redmond. But in day 3, I attended few sessions other than of my core expertise and so I attended a morning session at 9 AM with ASP.NET Team on Microsoft Ajax library and its future in “Common Building”. Scott hanselman was also present in the session :) The session was good and

MVP Summit 2010 – Day 2

2010-02-18T11:43:00.001+05:00

Day 2 was something important and tightly scheduled with several sessions, we were suppose to catch Shuttle from hotel by max 8:30 AM to reach Microsoft Campus, Redmond. So we woke up early in the morning, had breakfast and left the hotel by 8:15 AM. Being Visual C# MVP, I was suppose to attend the Deep Dive sessions by C# team which held in Building 92 at Microsoft Campus in Redmond.

MVP Summit 2010 – Day 1

2010-02-18T10:54:00.001+05:00

In last post I mentioned about attending MVP Summit 2010, So here I’m in Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond and the first two days of the Summit are over. It was pretty exciting and fun, we met different MVPs representing more than 70+ countries, MVP leads and some Program Managers at Microsoft. The event started on 16th Feb with registration and all MVPs were given a “Recycled” MVP plastic bag with

Attending MVP Summit 2010

2010-02-14T01:43:00.001+05:00

“The MVP Global Summit is a multi-day event that is hosted in Bellevue and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. With a large catalog of deep dive sessions and a variety of networking opportunities, the MVP Global Summit enables MVPs to connect with other MVPs, build relationships with Microsoft product managers, and provide feedback on Microsoft products and technologies.” I’m

Visual Studio 2010 RC is now available

2010-02-10T17:52:00.001+05:00

8th Feb, 2010 Microsoft released release candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2010. The VS 2010 RC will be available to download for general public on 10th Feb 2010. Earlier we saw some glimpse of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 as well as some Intellisense improvement. So if you are like me who installed beta 2 of VS2010 and downloaded RC, you might need to read this post. Note that there is no direct

Parameters and Arguments

2010-02-04T15:19:00.002+05:00

These days I’m reading “C# in Depth, Second Edition” written by a very famous C# MVP Jon Skeet. In his book Jon cleared the difference between Parameters and Arguments which I thought to share, with his permission. A lot of software developers really use these words interchangeably when discussing about programming with each other and sometimes we never realized that. A parameter is the variable

Microsoft Web Days

2010-01-28T00:36:00.001+05:00

We had a fantastic time at Microsoft Web Days on 27th January, 2010 at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi – Pakistan organized by Microsoft Pakistan DPE Team. The event started with WebsiteSpark overview by Naveed Bajwa, DPE Lead - Microsoft Pakistan. Naveed talked about what are the benefits this program offers and which companies are eligible for this program. Audience also raised few

Microsoft Bloggers Day

2010-01-24T13:34:00.001+05:00

Microsoft Pakistan, DPE Team, recently organized an event for Bloggers to talk about Windows 7, IE8 and Microsoft initiatives in Pakistan. The event was held at Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC), Karachi, Pakistan on 23rd January, 2010. The event was well organized and It was really fun to attend. Following was the agenda: A Dive into Windows 7 by Zafar Ul-Islam, Enterprise

Final Year Project (FYP) Suggestions and Ideas

2010-01-16T14:43:00.001+05:00

From time to time, I receive emails and concerns of students regarding Final Year Project (FYP). And we even get request for organizing events on FYP. At the start of the year, it’s mostly NEDians that ping us and in summer, students from FAST-NUCES, University of Karachi, Bahria University send us their queries. And mostly these queries are related to What we should do in the FYP

Microsoft Investment in Touch Computing

2010-01-09T12:28:00.001+05:00

An interesting interview, MSR researcher Bill Buxton discusses Microsoft's current and future investments in touch computing:

Year 2009

2010-01-01T12:58:00.004+05:00

Year 2009 was pretty much exciting for me and I achieved many things I was passionate about and wanted to accomplish. I would also like to thank for many people around me, as they support me in achieving some of my dreams. First and foremost my Family, they supported me throughout my academic and professional life. My friends, who gave me confidence at many stages of my life. Few Microsoft MVPs

What's the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility?

2009-12-22T22:08:00.001+05:00

With the release of co and contra-variance support in C# 4.0, there is lot of confusion between covariance and assignment compatibility. Here I have copied an article from Eric Lippert blog on “What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility”. Eric is a senior developer in C# team. So go through his post below and enjoy: I've written a lot about this already, but I think

Just created profile on SlideShare.NET

2009-12-20T13:58:00.001+05:00

I have just created an account on SlideShare.NET which will help me uploading and sharing presentation slides of events that take place :) You can visit my profile on SlideShare.NET or download/view from the widget below! Enjoy!!! http://www.slideshare.net/adil.mughal/presentations

The LINQ Way

2009-12-12T00:18:00.004+05:00

In this post, I will be sharing some code snippets to continue emphasizing on the use of LINQ. The code is almost the same which I discussed in Emerging .NET Devs UG Meeting in Oct ‘09. Let’s see a comparison of doing similar task with typical way and the LINQ way, in particular related to LINQ to Object, but first consider interface “ICustomer” on which we are going to playnamespace LinqToObject

Real World Scenario: Month Based Selection using AJAX Calendar Extender

2009-12-01T15:36:00.002+05:00

Often we get requirement of enabling only month based selection in calendar control in which a calendar should display only month instead of dates or you can say a calendar that allow users to pick month only. This can be achieved by manipulating functionality of AJAX Calendar extender using JavaScript.First, you need to set the behaviorID property of Calendar extender control and add two event

Session Summary: .NET Overview and Visual Studio

2009-11-25T12:38:00.001+05:00

I recently participated as speaker at "MAJU TechCon 2009" held on Saturday, 21st November, 2009. I delivered a session on ".NET Framework and Visual Studio". The event was day long and targets mostly to students of undergrad and post-grad. The objective of the session was to introduce .NET Framework as a next generation Microsoft platform for building end-to-end applications and why students

MAJU TechCon 2009

2009-11-20T11:02:00.001+05:00

I will be speaking at MAJU TechCon 2009 on “.NET Framework and Visual Studio”. The event is scheduled on Saturday, 21st November, 2009. The event is day long, targets mostly to students of undergrad and post-grad. Following is the tentative schedule of the event: 02:00~02:30, Registration 02:45~02:50, Opening Words by Azmat Khan from MAJU 02:50~03:00, Key Notes to

Interview at MicrosoftFeed

2009-11-13T23:03:00.001+05:00

MicrosoftFeed recently published my interview, as part of interviewing MVPs from the MEA region. I have copied some of the Q&As below, you can read the full interview here. Meet Adil Mughal – Visual C# MVP from Pakistan Tell us who you are? I’m Adil Mughal. I’m Microsoft MVP for Visual C#. I’m leading two most influential User Groups in Pakistan “DevNext” and “Emerging .NET Devs”.

Intellisense Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

2009-11-09T13:40:00.001+05:00

This is another post on the 10-4 series. I showed some screen shots of the Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 in the last post and promised that we will be discussing some of the breaking changes in the upcoming Visual Studio 2010. So, in this post we are going to see some of the exciting, very handy change and good improvement in Intellisense. A major thing you will notice that Intellisense now

Microsoft Community Boot camp‏

2009-11-01T12:21:00.002+05:00

Last Friday, 30th October ‘09, I participated in BootCamp organized for Microsoft Community in Pakistan. The event was really well organized and we really had fun time. We attended sessions, played games and had dinner as well :) It was organized at arena, Karachi, Pakistan. The Bootcamp provides an opportunity to network with other Most Valuable Professionals, Professional Partners,