{"id":3433,"date":"2004-10-26T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2004\/10\/26\/featured-visual-c-mvps\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:18:00","slug":"featured-visual-c-mvps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/featured-visual-c-mvps\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Visual C# MVPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was routinely perusing the&nbsp;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Developer Network<\/a> today I ran across a novel idea: a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vcsharp\/community\/mvp\/\">featured<\/a> Visual C# MVPs. As a former Visual C# MVP myself (before coming to work for Microsoft), I think this is an excellent idea. MVPs are like the right hand of Microsoft, reaching out to the developers in ways that Microsoft can&#8217;t always do. So what better way to promote MVPs in the community than to display their photographs? Most people do like to have some idea of who they&#8217;re talking to.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in what MVPs have to offer and who these individuals are, read about Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/communities\/default.mspx\">Most Valuable Professional<\/a> program and join them in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/communities\/default.mspx\">communities<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was routinely perusing the&nbsp;Microsoft Developer Network today I ran across a novel idea: a list of featured Visual C# MVPs. As a former Visual C# MVP myself (before coming to work for Microsoft), I think this is an excellent idea. MVPs are like the right hand of Microsoft, reaching out to the developers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,29],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As I was routinely perusing the&nbsp;Microsoft Developer Network today I ran across a novel idea: a list of featured Visual C# MVPs. As a former Visual C# MVP myself (before coming to work for Microsoft), I think this is an excellent idea. MVPs are like the right hand of Microsoft, reaching out to the developers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}