Nikita Polyakov

This past Thursday I had a pleasure of attentind a local Launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 event in Orange County Convention Center.

I had a tremedous honor to be part of ATE[Ask the Experts] panel in the pavilion on the Developer side. First thing I was asked was my area of expertise and with out complicated [and erragant] answer of everything .NET related - I picked Microsoft Express product line.

Through out the day I was able to see some cool demos by industry professionals, who most were from Florida.NET Influentials in their areas of expertise.

Though out the day I had pleasure answering or directing questions from many attendies and ATE's themselves as we could not hold back and chat with each other though out the day and exchange information.

Here are the most popular question from the event:

Q: What is the difference between Visual Studio Professional and Standard [or Express for that matter] ?

A: Answer to this question varied based on what the person wanted to develop, but as many of my collegues - we instructed attendies to check out this chart on one of the computers in the back of the ATE 1:1 presentation area - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

I am glad that I got a chance to be at the event and to be part of ATE - I'd like to thank Joe Healy from Microsoft for supporting the Florida .NET community and supporting it's influentials.

Hello,

My name is Nikita Polyakov. I am currently a Microsoft Student Ambassador for University of South Florida.

I'd like to begin by trying to establish a theme and direction of this Blog.

Currently I have numerous interest in various Microsoft technologies, but since I have recently been teaching free workshops to students at USF on Microsoft Express product line, I think it's a great idea to focus on this topic [for now]. This way I will deliver my readers consistent information about just the topic they are looking for.

The content will be samples from my presentations and discussion of specifics about starter kits, templates and even projects from coding4fun center on MSDN.

So if you are a student, hobbyist or a weekend warrior - sit back, relax and let's chat.

I greatly appreciate feedback and criticism, as long as it's not vulgar.

Nikita Polyakov,
Microsoft Student Ambassador

[ Nikita Polyakov is not employed by Microsoft Corp. and views and opinions in this blog do not reflect those of his employers and companies he is representing.]