The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is an annual award that is given to outstanding members of Microsoft's technical communities, and that is based on contributions made during the previous year to offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. MVPs reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies. Each year, the technical community's best and brightest are awarded as Microsoft MVPs.

Outstanding technical community members are nominated by their peers, Microsoft employees, and MVPs. Each year a panel of Microsoft employees reviews the contributions of each nominee for quality, quantity, and level of impact on the technical community.

As part of the award, MVPs receive a thank you gift, an MVP certificate, and a variety of resources to help them make the most of their experience as a Microsoft MVP.

This time the Award was given to Ms.Meetu Choudhary,MCTS,MCPD of Jaipur. Meetu Choudhary is a software professional with a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. She has been doing software development over 4 years. Meetu started her community as a Co-founder and webmaster ofhttp://www.msdotnetheaven.com/forums/index.php and http://www.msdotnetmentor.com to establish free IT education especially Microsoft Technology.

Meetu is known to the .NET Community through her .Net articles and other stuffs at http://www.dotnetspider.com, free I.T education websites http://www.msdotnetheaven.com andhttp://www.msdotnetmentor.com . As the journey is just started so, Meetu decided to expand the online .Net community in its high level so, she attached withhttp://www.dotnetspider.com as a Site Co-ordinator.

Meetu is a graduate in B.sc. IT&M before she did her Masters in Computers. She loves to help others. She started the community activities several years back with the aim of helping poor students and graduates to learn programming skills. She switched to internet based training and joined a website called dotnetspider.com. "dotnetspider" is an online .NET tutorials and guide for the latest Microsoft technologies, aimed to help new graduates acquire programming skills and learn the best programming practices. Dotnetspider.com is founded by Tony John to gather a good and quality IT professionals under one roof. This is the community sharing Technical views. Several Microsoft MVPs are directly or indirectly involved in this community offering their guidance.

When Meetu joined as a member of DotNetSpider website, she wasn’t aware of the MVP recognition. But she started becoming popular among .NET communities by her contributions in DotNetSpider and was selected as Editor of DotNetSpider website. Then she became Senior Editor and now she is the site coordinator of DotNetSpider. The founder of this website Mr. Tony John referred Meetu to this prestigious MVP Award and Meetu was selected for the award.