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Join us at Visual Studio 11 Developer Day, Hyderabad – 18th Feb 2012

2012-02-15T01:14:00.000+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH ) invites you to Developer Day on 18th Feb 2012 ( 9:30 A.M to 1.30 PM ) at Microsoft Campus , Hyderabad.

Join us to meet Meet Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Team. Charles will deliver 90 min talks on “Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 11”.

Additionally, we have two sessions on “Debug production hosted application with Intellitrace and Visual Studio 11” and “SQL Server 2012 Database Unit Testing with Visual Studio 11”.

Check out the Complete Agenda from here : http://mugh.net/vs11devday/agenda.html

Register for the event @ http://mughvs11devday.eventbrite.com/

Learning offer from Pluralsight!

2012-02-14T14:24:00.000+05:30

Dear MUGH Member,

Greetings from MUGH Core!

We at MUGH are excited to announce that over the next 2 months we can avail learning offer from Pluralsight.

Pluralsight is running a promotional offer for Microsoft User Groups in India.

We have VP sales of Pluralsight (Jeff Ross) coming to Bangalore in the week of 19th February, and will be here for 5 days. If someone from MUGH community introduces us to their learning/academy teams (even based out of Hyderabad), we can get in touch with the teams and check the requirement and enable the number of licenses totally free of cost for up to 100 users for up to 2 months. This will give access to entire library of 250+ courses without any conditions.

We will be happy to drop by and meet the learning teams personally.

So, the action is for the MUGH members to reach out to their respective organizations' learning team leads and introduce me (details below) to them. I will schedule the meeting and understand their learning requirements and enable the free pilot.

Regards,
-Phani

Enterprise Account Manager | Pluralsight, India
phani@pluralsight.com | YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/pluralsight)
Blog (http://blog.pluralsight.com/) | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pluralsight)

MUGH January Developer Day 2012

2012-01-21T20:07:00.004+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Developer Day on Sunday, January 29th 2012.

Register for this event for FREE @ http://mughdeveloperday01.eventbrite.com

Here is the agenda:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
09:30 to 10:00	Registration
10:00 to 11:00	Coding for Fun with Kinect	Abhijit Jana, Microsoft
11:00 to 12:00	I Love HTML5	Shravan Kumar, Thomson Reuters
12:00 to 12:10	Break
12:10 to 01:10	Secure web messaging using HTML5	Krishna Chaitanya, Infosys

Venue:
Microsoft Campus, Building 3 MPR Halls
Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh, India

MUGH Monthly Tech Meet, December 24 2011

2011-12-16T16:38:00.000+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Monthly Tech Meet on Saturday,December 24th 2011.

Here is the agenda:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
09:30 to 10:00	Registration
10:00 to 11:00	.NET Framework 4.5	Chakravarthy
11:00 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:10	SQLServer 2008 Performance Tuning Tips N Tricks	Aditya Badramraju

Venue:
Applied Info Services (India) Pvt. Ltd
8-2-293/82/A/764/1, Plot # 764, Road #44,Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

MUGH Breakfast at Minerva

2011-12-05T10:10:00.000+05:30

Geetsh & Pranav

Shravan, Sudhakar & Chakravarthy

MUGH had it's core team meeting at Minerva resuming the famous breakfast meetups. Geetesh, Shravan, Chakravarthy, Pranav & Sudhakar have attended this and discussed about upcoming monthly tech meet and Consumer Productivity event of 2012.

MUGH Monthly Tech Meet, November 26 2011

2011-11-23T04:57:00.002+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Monthly Tech Meet on Saturday,November 26th 2011.

Here is the agenda:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
09:30 to 10:00	Registration
10:00 to 11:00	ASP.NET 4.5 , Visual Studio 2011	Abhijit Jana
11:00 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:10	ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview	Shravan Kumar
12:10 to 13:10	Windows 8 Metro Application Development	Swathi

Venue:
Microsoft Campus, Building 3 MPR Halls
Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh, India

MUGH Monthly Tech Meet, October 29 2011

2011-10-25T11:59:00.003+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Monthly Tech Meet on Saturday, October 29th 2011. Register for this event for FREE @ http://mughtechmeet10.eventbrite.com/

Here is the agenda:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
10:00 to 11:00	Introduction to WebMatrix	Pranav Ainavolu
11:00 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:10	Creating App Fabric Applications	Sahas
12:10 to 13:10	To Be Announced	To Be Announced

Venue:
Applied Info Services (India) Pvt. Ltd
8-2-293/82/A/764/1, Plot # 764, Road # 44
Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500033
India

Developer Conference 2011

2011-09-26T10:54:00.002+05:30

MUGH proudly presents DevCon 2011, the developer conference for this year. It is our pleasure to host it at Microsoft's Gachhibowli campus with the help of Microsoft and other sponsors. Telerik, Applied Info Services India Ltd., Pluralsight, and LiquidHub are jointly sponsoring the event for the developers' community.

Now it's your time to explore!

Attend DevCon 2011 on October 1st, 2011

Attendees of DevCon 2011 can grab 2 weeks of free learning courses from Pluralsight. Many more goodies are waiting for you!

Avail of these free learning opportunities, and benefit from the sessions lined up at DevCon 2011. Register for this event today.

MUGH Tech Meet, August 27 2011

2011-08-22T14:17:00.004+05:30

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Monthly Tech Meet on Saturday, August 27th 2011. Register for this event for FREE @ http://mughtechmeet08.eventbrite.com/

Here is the agenda:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
10:00 to 11:00	ASP.NET MVC Practicals	Shravan Kumar
11:00 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:10	Sharepoint 2010 Overview & What’s New	Sandeep Nahta

Venue:
Applied Info Services (India) Pvt. Ltd
8-2-293/82/A/764/1, Plot # 764, Road # 44
Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500033
India

MUGH UG Meet, July 30th 2011

2011-07-18T21:43:00.005+05:30

We are glad to announce the next UG meet of MUGH! Being held on Saturday, July 30th 2011 from 10 am onwards, make sure you register at the meet's Eventbrite page!

Here are the details:

Timing	Topic	Speaker
10:00 to 11:00	MVC Primer for the Absolute Beginner	Shravan Kumar
11:00 to 12:00	Developing SharePoint 2010 Apps Using Windows Azure	Phani Tipparaju
12:00 to 12:10	Break
12:10 to 13:10	Version Management features in TFS 2010	Senthilraj

Venue:
Infotech
Plot No 2, IT Park, Nanakramguda, Manikonda
Hyderabad AP 500032
India
Tel: +91 - 40 - 23139100

Saturday, July 30 2011 at 10:00 am
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MUGH Techmeet, July 2011

2011-06-21T19:44:00.018+05:30

Hi Friends,

Let's meet to experience the tech ride with some of the cutting edge technology topics to learn, discuss and do network with community buddies around us. Register for this event for FREE @ http://www.eventbrite.com/event/966102639

Here is the agenda..

Date: 01-July-2011

Timing	Topic	Speaker
5:15 PM to 6:00 PM	WCF Rest Services	Phani Tipparaju
6:00 PM to 6:45 PM	C# 5.0 futures	Krishnachytanya
07:00 PM to 7:45 PM	·Building Apps on Windows Phone 7	Ronak Kumar Samantray
	·Mango Update

Venue: Training Hall (Hall 1)
Location: Ground Floor, Infotech Learning Center (Enter Infotech from Gate 2)
Infotech Enterprises Ltd.
Plot No:2, IT park
Nanakramguda, Manikonda
Hyderabad - 500 032.
Tel: +91 - 40 - 23139100
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MUGH Presents Windows Azure Camp

2011-04-06T21:09:00.014+05:30

MUGH presents Windows Azure Camp in association with Microsoft and Microsoft MVPs. Please block your calendars for the 10th of April 2011. This is a one day free event, and lunch will be provided. Registration is mandatory to attend the event, and please bring a valid photo ID proof to clear security at the venue.

Venue: Microsoft Campus, IDC, Gachibowli, Hyderabad

Here is the schedule:

Time	Topic	Speaker Name
0930 to 0945 hrs	Opening Note	Harish Ranganathan
0945 to 1045 hrs	Beginning with Windows Azure	Shravan Kumar
1045 to 1145 hrs	Azure Development Factory Chalk Talk	Arun Koshi, Manish Sharma, and Parthasarathi
1145 to 1200 hrs	Tea Break
1200 to 1300 hrs	Showcase: Azure SDK 1.3 and the new Azure Management Portal	Jebarson J, Microsoft
1300 to 1400 hrs	Lunch
1400 to 1500 hrs	Cloud Storage - Windows Azure storage services	Rahul Rai, Namit TS
1500 to 1530 hrs	Windows Azure Quiz & Goodies	Hima Bindu Vejella
1530 to 1630 hrs	Connecting Windows Azure to your Enterprise Network & Applications	Arun Koshi & Manish Sharma
1630 to 1645 hrs	Wrap up & Closing Note	Harish Ranganathan

Please register yourself here -- you need to be signed in to your Google account to access the spreadsheet in edit mode..

MUGH UG Meet : January 8, 2011

2011-01-03T17:13:00.021+05:30

Hi, and wish you all a very happy new year. MUGH is pleased to inform you all about our first UG meet for this year. You'll find the schedule below -- and please register here.

Time	Topic	Speaker Name
1000 to 1130 hrs	Windows Phone 7 Application Development	Siddharth Sehgal, Microsoft
1130 to 1145 hrs	Tea Break
1145 to 1245 hrs	ASP.NET MVC	Praveen Saxena, Thomson Reuters

Date: Saturday, the 8^th of January, 2011

Venue: Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.,
4th Floor, Usha Jubilee Town 36,
Plot No.8-2-293/82/A/1130/A,
Road No.36, Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad 500 033
(Near Chutney’s restaurant, and next to Porsche)
Look on Bing Maps (not too accurate)

We look forward to seeing you!

-MUGH Core Team

DevCon 2010 is Awaiting You!

2010-10-21T23:15:00.003+05:30

Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (mugh.net) is proud to present you the Developer Conference of the year DEVCON 2010, coming weekend 24^th – Oct – 2010.

Where/When : Building 3 MPR Halls, Microsoft India, Gachibowli ::: 24^th October 2010, 9:00 am onwards…

Free Registration is open @ http://devconmugh.eventbright.com . Reserve your seat today !

Every attendee gets FREE 1-month Standard subscription to Pluralsight On-Demand! Which will give access to all pluralsight courses for 1 Month!!

And 3 winners will get 1 year subscription which is worth up to 1500$....

Agenda

9:45 am – 10:15 am	Event Keynote by Sreenivas Simhadri, General Manager, Microsoft IT India.
10:20 am – 11:10 am	Technical Keynote Session by Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
11:15 am – 12:00 pm	Build Management in TFS – Phani Kumar, BrainScale
12:50 pm – 01:30 pm	Sharepoint Sandbox Solutions - Nagaraj Kalanjeri (Infosys)
01:30 pm – 2:15 pm	LUNCH BREAK

Dev Track

IT Pro Track

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Facebook Development using ASP.NET 4/JQuery

– Krishna Chaitanya (Infosys)

Exchange server 2010 Highlights

--Ravishankar Nandagopal (Microsoft)

3:00 pm – 3:50 pm

Windows Phone 7 Development

- Vikram Sharma & Sidharth Sehgal (Microsoft)

Transactional Replication- An Enterprise Case study

-- Raman Kumar & Ankit Goel (Microsoft)

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Developing with Visual Studio 2010 Light Switch

--Mukul Kumar Gupta (Microsoft)

Forefront Identity Manager 2010

– Mayur Deshpande (Microsoft)

Supported by

DevCon 2010 is here...Go Register

2010-10-18T20:11:00.002+05:30

Community Tech Days 2010 in Hyderabad - Agenda

2010-08-05T11:28:00.004+05:30

MUGH is organizing Community Tech Days this Saturday (August 7th, 2010) at the Microsoft Campus in Gachhibowli -- you can find the agenda on the Community TechDays site...

MUGH Presents Community Techdays 2010

2010-07-15T13:06:00.003+05:30

Microsoft Community TechDays
presented by
Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH)

Dive deep into the world of Microsoft technologies at the Community TechDays and get trained on the latest from Microsoft. Build real connections with Microsoft experts and community members, and gain the inspiration and skills needed to maximize your impact on your organization while enhancing your career. What more... you can watch some of these sessions LIVE online from the comfort of your workstation as well.

When : 7th August, 2010 (Block your calendar)

Where : Building 3 MPR Halls, Microsoft Campus, Gachhibowli – Hyderabad.

Time : Attendee Check-in Starts @ 9:00 AM

Agenda : Will be posted here soon.

Registration Now Open @ Community TechDays

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Office 2010 Launch

2010-07-11T17:06:00.002+05:30

The Office 2010 launch held on July 3rd by MUGH at the Microsoft Campus, Gachhibowli, Hyderabad evoked an awesome response -- read this post by Hima Bindu Vejella to learn more...

Office 2010 Community Launch at Hyderabad

2010-06-29T11:02:00.003+05:30

Hi All,

Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH) in association with Microsoft, presents the most awaited IT PRO event for you, focusing the most popular MS product new Office 2010, you always loved to work on. Come, join us to celebrate the exciting fun tech stuff, Quizzing! Yes...There is chance of winning an event t-shirt and you will get it if you can win the quiz and participate in the contest! Here is the much awaited launch that we planned and let us make it on 3rd July 2010 at Microsoft India Development Center, Gachibowli.

It is a free event that includes lunch.

Venue: Microsoft Gachibowli campus, Building 3, MPRs 1,2,3

Please Register Here for the event.

Registration is done from 8:30 am to 9:30 am

Agenda

1. Introduction to Office 2010 and What's new in Office 2010 - Muqeet -9:30-10:30
2. Power Point 2010 Features -Geetesh -10:30- 11:30
3. Word 2010 LapAround - HimaBindu Vejella- 11:45 - 12:45

Lunch Break 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

4. Developing Solutions using Office 2010 - Aman - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
5. SharePoint 2010 – Sandip Joshi - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

So Lets Rock on 3rd July , Mark your calanders for this event. We hope to see all of you to make the event grand success.

Note: Please bring confirmation E-mail Print and a valid Photo ID Proof to clear the Security Check. In case if you do not get the confirmation E-mail to you, please bring print out of this blogpost, We will make the entry for you.

Exclusive Offer for MUGH Members : Training in Hyderabad for SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010

2010-05-04T15:23:00.004+05:30

This offer is exclusively for the MUGH members only.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization & Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave—May 12-14, 2010)
This intensive, 3-day course gives attendees an in-depth look at query optimization and performance tuning in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. Designed to prepare SQL Server developers and administrators for a transition to SQL Server 2005 or 2008, the course covers best practices for a variety of essential tasks for maximizing performance.

SharePoint 2010 (Joy Rathnayake—May 10-11, 2010)
This comprehensive 2-day workshop—featuring five hands-on labs—begins with an overview of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environment and its underlying components. Day 1 focuses on SharePoint for the ITPro, showing you how to create and extend SharePoint Web Applications, work with content databases, manage authentication, manage sites, and much more. Day 2, focusing on development on the SharePoint Server 2010 platform, discusses the various solutions and code modules that developers can use to enhance SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality.

The fee for the SQL course is INR 14,000/person for the whole 3-day convention.AND INR 11,000/person for SharePoint 2010. At the rate of 1 USD = 44 INR, this fee converts to less than USD 300. At this rate, it is totally possible to fly from anywhere from the world to India and take the training and still save handsome pocket money.

It would be even better if you register using the discount code “MUGH“, for you will instantly get an INR 3000 discount, reducing the total cost of the training to INR 11,000/person for whole 3 days course, INR 8000 per person for whole 2days course. This is a onetime offer and will not be available in the future.

This offer is exclusively for the MUGH members only.

Fees & Registration
SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization &Perf Tuning: Rs. 14,000 per participant
Day 1: Strengthening the Basics & SQL Server 2005/2008 Features
• Subqueries, Ranking Functions, Joins, and Set Operations
• Table Expressions
• TOP and APPLY
• SQL Server 2008 Enhancements

Day 2: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning, Part 1
• Logical Query Processing
• Query Tuning
• Introduction to the Query Processor
• Common Query-Coding Practices that Cause Poor Performance

Day 3: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning, Part 2
• SQL Server Indexing and Index Maintenance
• Plan Guides, Query Hints, UDFs, and Computed Columns
• SQL Server Execution Plans
• Real-World Index & Optimization Tips

SharePoint 2010: Rs. 11,000
per participant
Day 1: SharePoint 2010 Introduction and ITPro Overview
• SharePoint 2010 Introduction and New Features
• Working with SharePoint Web Applications and Sites
• Hands-on Lab: Creating a New Web Application, Site Collections, Configuring Navigation, and More
• Understanding and Configuring Workflow Services, Search, and Disaster Recovery
• Hands-on Lab: Out-of-the Box Workflows, Search & Indexing, and Backup & Restore
• Understanding SharePoint Designer 2010
• Hands-on Lab: Lists and Libraries, External Content Types, and Workflow Designer

Day 2: SharePoint 2010 Developer Overview
• Overview of SharePoint Development
• Developing Web Parts
• Hands-on Lab: Developing a Web Part using LINQ to SharePoint
• Understanding Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Hands-on Lab: Creating an External Content Type and Retrieving Data from SQL through BCS

• Comprehensive hands-on training
• 1:1 computers
• A/C class rooms with LCD projector
• Printed course materials
• Lunch and Tea provided
To register, contact:
Solid Quality India Pvt. Ltd.
Mangesh Pawar
Phone: (O) 022-4090-7376 | (M) 95940-43399 | (F) 022-4090-7379
MPawar@SolidQ.com or IndiaInfo@SolidQ.com
Please note that there is service tax of 10.2% for each participant fee

The Venue
Timings 10am-6pm
Training Center
Abridge Solutions, #90/B/C/3/1,
Ganesh GHR & MSY Plaza,
Vittalrao Nagar,
Near Image Hospital,
Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500 081.

MUGH UG Meet on March 21, 2010

2010-04-02T12:43:00.003+05:30

The MUGH UG Meet on March 21, 2010 held at the Microsoft City office in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad was a great success -- here are a few pictures from the event:

Attendees at the UG Meet

Attendees at the UG Meet

Arun Ganesh at the UG Meet

Muqeet at the UG Meet

Geetesh at the UG Meet

Announcing MUGH UG Meet: March 21 2010

2010-03-08T19:17:00.002+05:30

The next MUGH UG Meet will be held on March 21st 1010 from 10 am to 12 noon -- the venue is tentatively fixed as the Microsoft office at Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills and this will be confirmed later. We still need to put up more details, and a registration page -- but for now, here's the agenda:

Enhancements to WCF in .net 4.0 -- by Arun Ganesh, MVP -- Developer Track
IIS Smooth Streaming -- by Muqeet Khan, MVP -- IT Pro Track
Delivery Skills for PowerPoint Presentations -- by Geetesh Bajaj, MVP -- Consumer Track

Watch this space for more details including detailed descriptions of the individual sessions!

MUGH Core Meet: March 2nd 2010

2010-03-08T18:42:00.003+05:30

The second monthly MUGH Core Meet was held yesterday at 10 am -- this was a very productive session attended by the following (in alphabetical order):

Anil Radhakrishna, MVP
Anil Saraogee, Microsoft
Arun Ganesh, MVP
Geetesh Bajaj, MVP
Harish Ranganathan, Microsoft
Jeba Swvigaradoss, Microsoft
Muqeet Khan, MVP

Several discussions were held -- the next UG Meet is scheduled for March 21st, 2010 -- and here are the tentative dates for the subsequent UG Meets:

March 21st, 2010
April 18th, 2010
May 16th, 2010
June 20th, 2010
July 18th, 2010
August 22nd, 2010

It was decided that each UG Meet would have three sessions, dedicated to these tracks:

Developer
IT Pro
Consumer (includes those not related to computing)

Each track will span for 35 to 40 minutes, thus limiting the UG Meet to 2 hours from 10 am to 12 noon. And no speaker will be repeated for 3 months.

Harish raised the issue of reviving MUGH more. Also, it was decided to use the #mugh hash tag for any tweets relating to MUGH.

As of now, the MUGH Core Group comprises:

Anil Radhakrishna, MVP
Anil Saraogee, Microsoft
Anjana Ramamoorthy, Microsoft (ex MVP)
Arun Ganesh, MVP
Geetesh Bajaj, MVP
Harish Ranganathan, Microsoft (ex MVP)
Hima Bindu Vejella, MVP
Jeba Swvigaradoss, Microsoft
Muqeet Khan, MVP
Sudhakar Sadasivuni, Microsoft (ex MVP)

In addition, these Hyderabad based MVPs are welcome to be more active as part of the MUGH Core Group:

Abhishek Joshi
Shanmugh Sundar

The third, and next MUGH Core Meet is scheduled to be held from 10 am onwards on Sunday, the 4th of April, 2010.

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2010-03-08T16:55:00.003+05:30

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What is MUGH Core?

2010-02-07T22:24:00.002+05:30

MUGH Core is an internal group within MUGH that takes care of how this user group operates.

The current members are:

Harish Ranganathan
Sudhakar Sadasivuni
Anjana Ramamoorthy
Hima Bindu Vejella
Geetesh Bajaj
Arun Ganesh
Anil Radhakrishnan

We are also extending an invitation to the following Hyderabad based MVPs to become part of the MUGH Core group:

Muqeet Khan
Shanmugh Sundar
Abhishek Joshi

These members are not active and are considered as MUGH Core Alumini:

Umesh
Tameem Ansari