I’m really pleased and humbled to have been re-awarded the Microsoft MVP award for 2025. This year I’ve been awarded in the .NET category as my focus has been on .NET MAUI and .NET across multiple platforms. When I started on the MVP journey in 2003 it was for the .NET Compact Framework so I’m very lucky to have continued to use .NET from the simple Pocket PC through to todays phones and tablets.
Congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs, it is a great community to be a part of.
I was very honoured to receive the MVP award in July, marking my 20th year. Today I was reminded again as I received the glass disc for this award year. It’s something small but means an awful lot when I add it to the stack and reflect on this milestone. We’ve seen a lot of change, this glass trophy and I.
As I polished it ready for a photo, I was reminded of the small scratch on the front near the MVP logo. Luckily it’s so small you probably can’t tell in the photo. This was where it toppled over during the Christchurch earthquake in 2011. I’m still amazed that it didn’t break given everything else that did.
We have made it half way around the world and back, and from the simple days of .NET Compact Framework and Windows CE through to a much bigger .NET ecosystem across diverse platforms and development frameworks.
I’ve had to start implementing a compression algorithm to make it look neater!
(Yes for some reason the 2014 disc has a slightly different shape notch so sticks out a bit!)
In The Hand Ltd 