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I passed by an interesting course on Youtube.com teaching how to develop Excel sheets using VBA code. If you are planning to develop with Excel or have been developing for a while, this resources helps you:

Malfunction9's channel

Hope this helps,
Regards 

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Once again, and for the 8th year, I want to thank Microsoft for putting their trust and awarding me dear and precious award. It's just an honor for me to hold this award for another new year!

Thank you again & best regards
Bilal  

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A set of ready-made CSS table layouts can grabbed here: http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/tables/55.php

They come in handy when working out the HTML & tabular data.

HTH,
Regards

Tags: CSS, HTML, ASP.NET

Under the patronage of His Excellency

Mr. Nicolas Nahas, Minister of Economy and Trade

Microsoft cordially invites you to attend

Join a team of Microsoft expert developers and discover the quickest way to get up-to-speed  on the latest Microsoft technologies.

Discuss topics such as Windows Phone Development, Participate in demos on Windows Phone 7.5, and Learn how to develop applications for the upcoming Windows 8.

Develop apps for the Cloud and how Windows Azure can help you make sense of your Cloud offering,

in addition to HTML5 and SharePoint development. 

You'll be able to interact with the team and have informal conversations with them as they answer your questions on current Microsoft topics.

For more info: techdaysbeirut@microsoft.com

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A new course is released by Pluralsight: Hack-proofing Your ASP.NET Web Applications

Hack-proofing Your ASP.NET Web Applications: This course provides the developer with techniques for hack-proofing their applications by understanding the attacks that are used, and how to defend against them.

You can access the course here: Hack-proofing your ASP.NET web applications

Enjoy!
HTH 

Tags: ASP.NET, Security

If you are new to Windows Azure and willing to learn how to host an ASP.NET application on Window Azure, here's a step by step article dissecting the process of hosting web applications on Windows Azure.

Walkthrough: Hosting an ASP.NET MVC Application on Windows Azure

HTH,
Regards 

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A new hands-on lab on Orchard CMS is now available and written by MVP Kris van der Mast. Check it out on his blog:

Free Hands-On Lab on Orchard CMS

HTH,
Regards 

Tags: Orchard, CMS, ASP.NET

I stumbled the other day by an informative yet simple article for my friend MVP Kris van der Mast (http://blog.krisvandermast.com/) explaining thoroughly how to send an email with an attachment of type “.ics” file that could be loaded automatically into your Microsoft Outlook and get its place among your other appointment seamlessly.

To read more, follow this link: How to send a mail with an ics appointment as attachment with System.Net.Mail

HTH,
Regards

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With the advent of ASP.NET MVC 4, there has been a major focus on developing ASP.NET MVC applications targeting Desktop and Mobile browsers. The key point to look at is the Display Modes feature that ASP.NET engine makes use of to detect and differentiate between different browsers (mobile and desktop ones) and accordingly serve each browser with the right content or “Views”. I started two days ago playing around with the ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview and faced some obstacles in running an ASP.NET MVC 4 on some Mobile Browser emulators (Opera Emulator, FireFox User agent switcher, etc …). I got them solved by now, read more

To serve different Mobile browsers, ASP.NET MVC needs to be aware of all those mobile browsers in order to recognize that a request is coming from this or that mobile browser in addition to differentiating between mobile and desktop browser requests in general. To keep ASP.NET MVC aware of the different mobile browsers there are online services that you, a .NET developer, can utilize.

1. The first service is 51degrees.mobi, you can read more about integrating 51degrees.mobi into an ASP.NET MVC 4 application by reading this article: 51Degrees.mobi and ASP.NET MVC 4
2. The other service is WUFRL.NET, you can read more about integrating WUFRL.NET into an ASP.NET MVC 4 application by reading this article: WUFRL.NET and ASP.NET MVC 4 Display Modes

The above should help you setup the basic framework to start serving Web Content targeting Mobile and Desktop browsers. The next step is to start the actual development and building of the content. A good start might be visiting the ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features whitepaper and go through the sample application explained.

HTH,

Regards

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