Become our FIRST Microsoft TechNet T-SQL Guru of 2014!!
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Thanks Naomi! We're up to 6 articles and 3 days to go!
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki SSRS Guru - Winners for December!!
The results for December's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/01/16/technet-guru-awards-december-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for December!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your JANUARY contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22211.technet-guru-contributions-for-january-2014.aspx
Read all about January's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - December 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Managing Windows Azure BizTalk Services with REST API
Ed Price: "I'm not sure how you come up with such vital topics, but this is as important as it comes, and you nailed it!!!"
TGN: "It's almost unfair for others, Steef-Jan is a God when it comes to writing tutorials and articles, great one!"
Sandro Pereira
BizTalk Server: Grouping and Sorting Operations Inside BizTalk Maps
Using the Muenchian Method
TGN: "Very good article, I love this. Explains grouping and sorting in a good way, and by following best practice. Very good Sandro"
Ed Price: "Great explanations and fantastic formatting!"
Maheshkumar S Tiwari
BizTalk Server 2010: How to Insert Image In SQL Through Orchestration
Ed Price: "Very clear instructions through great use of images!"
TGN: "Should contain a warning around the size of the images, I do not usually recommend this way when using BizTalk due to performance."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2013
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using C#
Craig Lussier: "A fantastic reference that every SharePoint developer should have bookmarked. Well done!"
GO: "Matthew knows how to write an article worthy of recognition! This is a reliable source and contains many SharePoint and PowerShell examples that will be useful for IT-PRO as developers! A big thank you for your participation and your
articles Matthew! Excellent work!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "What a handy reference!"
Ed Price: "What an epic article! From Mohammad in the comments: "this is something to add in my favourites, thanks"
Jinchun Chen: "Good guide"
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates
Ed Price: "The comments say it well. From Matthew: "Great article Benoit! I agree, it's a great feature!" From Dan: "I agree with Matthew. I can see myself refer to this article in the near future. I'm definitely
adding this to my bookmark list. Thank you Benoit for sharing your knowledge.""
Craig Lussier: "Great walkthrough of Display Templates in SharePoint 2013. Well written, great screenshots and thoughtful material. "
GO: "If you want to have a better knowledge of SharePoint 2013, Benoit is your man! Again a great article: The use of XSLT ? Done ! This article absolutely deserves a medal!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Not a big fan of design manager, but def. a nice write-up"
Nilesh Jain
Sharepoint 2010 : A Complete list of SPFile Operations using ECMA Script
Jinchun Chen: "Good getting start"
GO: "This articles show us various methods/properties associated with SPFile object! Clever article and well written! Great source!"
Craig Lussier: "Well written reference for SPFile operations with solid examples. "
Ed Price: "Solid formatting! Great comments on this article: From Matthew: "Nice article Nilesh!" From Dan: "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a big fan of using screenshots when writing an article and you've definitely
done a great job here. Thanks again.""
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice idea, but the reference is too short to be really cool"
Small Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21694 - Font and Pen Width Change Earlier in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "This code is very helpful!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 22108 - Viewport of GraphicsWindow
is Narrower and Sometimes Resized in Remote
Ed Price: "The diagrams really help make this clear. Great job!"
RZ: "Again, very useful tip. And thank you highlighting them."
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21691 - Rectangle and Ellipse Become Smaller in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "Your samples you wrote help give these articles an added boost!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - December 2013
Tim Pacl
Functional Reports: Making a Report Into a Management Tool
NN: "Terrific article! Very helpful and clean steps"
Ed Price: "Tim nails it again with a fantastic and descriptive narrative on a great topic! It could be improved with images to show what you're describing. Fantastic article!"
Michael Amadi
A practical example of how to handle simple many to many
relationships in Power Pivot/SSAS Tabular models
Ed Price: "Great topic and great formatting! The descriptions are helpful, the images and the tables help clarify. The bold text really pops! Great article!"
NN: "Great article explaining a common problem and solution"
Tim Pacl
Using a Date Picker for an Analysis Data Query Parameter
NN: "Another interesting article by Tim"
Ed Price: "Another great article from Tim. Shorter but sweet!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2013
Uwe Ricken
How does SQL Server allocate space in a heap
Samuel Lester: "Amazing content, great presentation, and incredibly educational! "
DRC: "• Very nice article, very well documented. • Clear explanation of the behaviour and queries to trace the same. • This also explains the output of the queries which makes the users more comfortable while reproducing the behaviour
explained. • The only modification is to remove the .(dot) for the value “8.096” which should be 8096. "
DB: "Clear and informative explanation of details not available elsewhere."
Jinchun Chen: "Awesome"
Ed Price: "Another high-quality article from Uwe! Great formatting and even a good interaction with Shanky in the comments!"
NN: "Great and thorough article"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Relational Division
DB: "Clear and detailed."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very well done and well researched."
Ed Price: "The article comments say it welll. From Saeid: "Surprised with this one! This is really one of the important topics. Many questions in MSDN SQL forums are about this topic" From Carmelo: "Very good work Naomi!"
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding article again! As mentioned in the article and comments, variations of this question appear in the forums frequently and it is nice to have this article to reference. Great breadth and depth with each solution!"
Durval Ramos
How to extract data in XML to meet the requirements of a Schema
Samuel Lester: "Creative solution and great write-up! "
Richard Mueller: "The articles in this group were very close. This is a great article with outstanding links. The See Also section should only include Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Very detailed narrative that's well supported by great formatting and images! Great article!"
Saeid Hasani
Error handling within Triggers using T-SQL
Richard Mueller: "A well executed article. The trigger rules were confusing to me."
Ed Price: "Another great article from Saeid! This could be made better with more explanations for each step. Good job!"
Samuel Lester: "Great new content and nice companion to your prior article. "
Visual Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Dewayne Basnett
Prime Number Sieve
Richard Mueller: "Amazing material that will take some study, but very clever. Donald Knuth in "The Art of Computer Programming", vol. 2, says Eratosthenes filter only considers odd integers and increments from
p*p."
SB: "Nice article, not much practical use but just details coding for the fun of solving a problem"
HomeGrownCoder
Don't Throw Out the System Brushes
Richard Mueller: "An important concept that is well explained, with lots of links. Should have a See Also section."
SB: "Nice article which address a real world issue that occurs."
Paul Ishak
Declaring numeric data types
SB: "Good simple piece helping detail best numeric types to use."
Richard Mueller: "Basic recommendations. This article could use links and a See Also section."
Visual C# Technical Guru - December 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Loading Related Entities in Entity Framework
NN: "Very clear and helpful article! Nicely done"
DB: "Clear and informative."
Ed Price: "Fantastic article with a good suggestion in the comments. Could benefit from a TOC. Great job!"
chriga
Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of files and folders
NN: "Short and useful article"
DB: "Useful bit of information."
Ed Price: "Great formatting and article!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - December 2013
Saad Mahmood
Binding any JSON data list in your application in 10 mins.(Windows Phone)
Ed Price: "Great detail, formatting, and use of images!"
Peter Laker: "Nice simple example"
Saad Mahmood
Now Check for updates of your app inside your Windows Phone application
Ed Price: "Good use of code formatting. Could benefit from a TOC."
Peter Laker: "Great article, thanks Saad"
Ken Tucker
Convert date time received in JSON to a .Net DateTime
Ed Price: "It's valuable, short and sweet, good code commenting, and it has good interaction in the Wiki article comments. But it is a bit generic for this category."
Peter Laker: "Top tip, nice layout, thanks Ken!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - December 2013
dev hedgehog
The Myth of BindingGroup
Ed Price: "Very thorough article developed from forum questions. Great job! But why is it a Myth if it's really helpful? =^)"
Peter Laker: "Another excellent contribution from dev hedgehog. Good subject."
Shweta Lodha
Safest way to use RaisePropertyChanged method
Ed Price: "Good topic and explanations. Could be improved with black font and with a TOC. Good job!"
Peter Laker: "Nice tip from Shweta. There are various variations to this."
chriga
Binding of DataGrid column header
Ed Price: "Short and sweet! Fantastic formatting and great descriptions help sell this one!"
Peter Laker: "Useful example and welcome edition to the knowledge base, thanks chrigra!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - December 2013
Mr X
How DNS aging and scavenging works
Richard Mueller: "Very good information. The images, links, and code example help a lot."
JH: "Brilliant article, great explanations and illustrations"
Ed Price: "Explanations, links, code, images, diagrams... it's all here! It could benefit from a TOC for easier navigation. Just add headers and then "[toc]" at the top of the article."
JM: "Excellent article and a nice use of good graphics, nice work!"
Kelly Bush
Delegate Replication Rights to non-admins
JM: "This is an excellent article, nice work!"
JH: "Like how author organized and summarized a forum post and added more, like "applies to" values "
Ed Price: "Good reference, instructions, explanations, and images! Could be improved with a TOC."
Richard Mueller: "On my first reading of the articles in this section I had a 3 way tie for first. This article covers a very important concept for security. It could use a See Also section."
Mr X
How to mark an Active Directory attribute to be copied when duplicating
a user template
Richard Mueller: "Very useful and well explained information. Very good images. This could use a See Also section."
JM: "This is an excellent article, however the first sentence needs to be revised for clarity."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
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SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - December 2013
Tim Pacl
Functional Reports: Making a Report Into a Management Tool
NN: "Terrific article! Very helpful and clean steps"
Ed Price: "Tim nails it again with a fantastic and descriptive narrative on a great topic! It could be improved with images to show what you're describing. Fantastic article!"
Michael Amadi
A practical example of how to handle simple many to many
relationships in Power Pivot/SSAS Tabular models
Ed Price: "Great topic and great formatting! The descriptions are helpful, the images and the tables help clarify. The bold text really pops! Great article!"
NN: "Great article explaining a common problem and solution"
Tim Pacl
Using a Date Picker for an Analysis Data Query Parameter
NN: "Another interesting article by Tim"
Ed Price: "Another great article from Tim. Shorter but sweet!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki BizTalk Guru - Winners for November!!
The results for November's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Sorry for the delay copying over to the forums, busy times indeed!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/12/16/technet-guru-awards-november-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for November!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your DECEMBER contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21343.technet-guru-contributions-for-december.aspx
Read all about December's competition in the stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for November. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint
Community! Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
litdev
Dynamic Graphics
Ed Price: "Incredibly detailed. A fantastic resource to keep coming back to! From the comments: "Wanted to say WOW - this is great!" and "Awesome. Thanks""
Nonki Takahashi
How to Make a Check Box
Ed Price: "Well formatted and in-depth how-to article! Great job!"
Joe Dwyer
Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners
Ed Price: "A well-articulated value statement for Small Basic! Thanks, Joe!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data
Richard Mueller: "Excellent article solving a common problem."
Ed Price: "Good details in the Solutions section!"
Samuel Lester: "Handy code and very slick solution!"
Ronen Ariely
Random String
Samuel Lester: "Great comparison and VERY useful information in the application testing space as you mentioned."
Ed Price: "Great detail and depth!"
Richard Mueller: "I disagree with several statements in the article. For example GUID values will be random."
Saeid Hasani
Simplified CASE expression
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and detailed explanations. Great job taking Carsten's advice (in the comments) and giving it good code formatting. It helps a lot!"
Samuel Lester: "Extremely thorough and a great read! Good addition!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
Reed Kimble
Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net
Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained."
MR: "Great article and well written."
SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well"
Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
.paul.
Shapes - Areas + Volumes
SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB."
Ed Price: ".paul. earns his first Gold Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers."
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code."
MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"
Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay
NN: "Short and swift and very informative article. I like all articles by Jaliya and this is no exception"
Ed Price: "Great formatting with thorough explanations!"
Deeptendra
Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C#
NN: "This article explains some basic C# concepts, but it will be much better if it would provide examples"
Ed Price: "Good comparison for starters, but it could go deeper on each class."
Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Learn about Class,Object and Constructors
NN: "Good and simple article that is helpful for C# beginners"
Ed Price: "As NN mentions above, this is a good article for new coders. As Carsten mentions in the comments, it would benefit from better code formatting."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013
mcosmin
Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles
RC: "A few interesting additions to the Media for
Windows Phone docs. For completeness it should also address how Media Foundation fits in. Also please update the MediaElement link to point at Windows Phone docs rather than Silverlight."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the classes! This article could benefit from a TOC."
AN: A good article, and useful subject!
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013
dev hedgehog
Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel
Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!"
Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid
Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation."
Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
Ayyappan
WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework
Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation."
Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013
Uwe Ricken
When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! I love it."
NN: "Great article, very comprehensive. Few drawbacks - it doesn't explain in details what the correct solution should be. Also, the code samples to the article include line numbers which make them harder to copy"
Ed Price: "As Saeid in the comments wrote, "I love this article. This article defines the quality!" Between the explanations, code, comments, and diagram, the story is told well."
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding explanation, format, and write-up! Superb again Uwe!"
DB: "Very interesting both in content and technique. "
DRC: "Very nice article, well documented with sample script and sample output. If we add the references to few of the topics discussed, would be helpful to understand the concept better so that the reader will get the complete picture
of the blog talks about. Definitely a TechNet WIKI article. "
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR
NN: "This article can not be read by its own without reading the article it refers to. The code is not explained, the process of creating CLR function is also not explained. So, it is not clear how this
C# code is used in SQL Server at all"
Ed Price: "This could benefit from much more explanation. "
Samuel Lester: "Very good article and a great in-depth break-out that compliments your broader random string tech-net Wiki article. Great read!"
DRC: "It would have been better if the code would also provide the below details: 1. How to load the dll generated in SQL Server memory 2. Sample T SQL script to use the function and a sample output for the same. "
Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013
Mr X
How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion
GL: "Good background and procedures."
JH: "great diagram, great topic. well written"
Richard Mueller: "Great information that could prevent a disaster."
JM: "Very good article"
Mr X
How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active
Directory Users and Computers
Richard Mueller: "Very valuable information. Needs a TOC. The tables and images help a lot."
GL: "Good detail in this article. I'd like to see a use case added."
JH: "very useful, nicely illustrated"
JM: "Very good article, but it would be good to improve readability by fixing minor errors in grammar (missing articles, pluralization sometimes incorrect)"
Mr X
Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational
Units in Active Directory
JM: "This is an excellent article and I'm sure a lot of Admins will find it very helpful."
JH: "good topic, well organized table, easy to read"
Ed Price: "Great table and good use of cross-linking to related Wiki articles!"
Richard Mueller: "A great table and great references."
GL: "Good article."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.Congrats to Steef-Jan, Suleiman, and Tomasso!
BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Microsoft TechNet Wiki SSAS Guru - Winners for November!!
The results for November's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Sorry for the delay copying over to the forums, busy times indeed!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/12/16/technet-guru-awards-november-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for November!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your DECEMBER contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21343.technet-guru-contributions-for-december.aspx
Read all about December's competition in the stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for November. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint
Community! Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
litdev
Dynamic Graphics
Ed Price: "Incredibly detailed. A fantastic resource to keep coming back to! From the comments: "Wanted to say WOW - this is great!" and "Awesome. Thanks""
Nonki Takahashi
How to Make a Check Box
Ed Price: "Well formatted and in-depth how-to article! Great job!"
Joe Dwyer
Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners
Ed Price: "A well-articulated value statement for Small Basic! Thanks, Joe!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data
Richard Mueller: "Excellent article solving a common problem."
Ed Price: "Good details in the Solutions section!"
Samuel Lester: "Handy code and very slick solution!"
Ronen Ariely
Random String
Samuel Lester: "Great comparison and VERY useful information in the application testing space as you mentioned."
Ed Price: "Great detail and depth!"
Richard Mueller: "I disagree with several statements in the article. For example GUID values will be random."
Saeid Hasani
Simplified CASE expression
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and detailed explanations. Great job taking Carsten's advice (in the comments) and giving it good code formatting. It helps a lot!"
Samuel Lester: "Extremely thorough and a great read! Good addition!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
Reed Kimble
Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net
Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained."
MR: "Great article and well written."
SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well"
Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
.paul.
Shapes - Areas + Volumes
SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB."
Ed Price: ".paul. earns his first Gold Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers."
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code."
MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"
Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay
NN: "Short and swift and very informative article. I like all articles by Jaliya and this is no exception"
Ed Price: "Great formatting with thorough explanations!"
Deeptendra
Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C#
NN: "This article explains some basic C# concepts, but it will be much better if it would provide examples"
Ed Price: "Good comparison for starters, but it could go deeper on each class."
Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Learn about Class,Object and Constructors
NN: "Good and simple article that is helpful for C# beginners"
Ed Price: "As NN mentions above, this is a good article for new coders. As Carsten mentions in the comments, it would benefit from better code formatting."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013
mcosmin
Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles
RC: "A few interesting additions to the Media for
Windows Phone docs. For completeness it should also address how Media Foundation fits in. Also please update the MediaElement link to point at Windows Phone docs rather than Silverlight."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the classes! This article could benefit from a TOC."
AN: A good article, and useful subject!
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013
dev hedgehog
Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel
Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!"
Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid
Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation."
Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
Ayyappan
WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework
Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation."
Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013
Uwe Ricken
When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! I love it."
NN: "Great article, very comprehensive. Few drawbacks - it doesn't explain in details what the correct solution should be. Also, the code samples to the article include line numbers which make them harder to copy"
Ed Price: "As Saeid in the comments wrote, "I love this article. This article defines the quality!" Between the explanations, code, comments, and diagram, the story is told well."
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding explanation, format, and write-up! Superb again Uwe!"
DB: "Very interesting both in content and technique. "
DRC: "Very nice article, well documented with sample script and sample output. If we add the references to few of the topics discussed, would be helpful to understand the concept better so that the reader will get the complete picture
of the blog talks about. Definitely a TechNet WIKI article. "
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR
NN: "This article can not be read by its own without reading the article it refers to. The code is not explained, the process of creating CLR function is also not explained. So, it is not clear how this
C# code is used in SQL Server at all"
Ed Price: "This could benefit from much more explanation. "
Samuel Lester: "Very good article and a great in-depth break-out that compliments your broader random string tech-net Wiki article. Great read!"
DRC: "It would have been better if the code would also provide the below details: 1. How to load the dll generated in SQL Server memory 2. Sample T SQL script to use the function and a sample output for the same. "
Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013
Mr X
How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion
GL: "Good background and procedures."
JH: "great diagram, great topic. well written"
Richard Mueller: "Great information that could prevent a disaster."
JM: "Very good article"
Mr X
How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active
Directory Users and Computers
Richard Mueller: "Very valuable information. Needs a TOC. The tables and images help a lot."
GL: "Good detail in this article. I'd like to see a use case added."
JH: "very useful, nicely illustrated"
JM: "Very good article, but it would be good to improve readability by fixing minor errors in grammar (missing articles, pluralization sometimes incorrect)"
Mr X
Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational
Units in Active Directory
JM: "This is an excellent article and I'm sure a lot of Admins will find it very helpful."
JH: "good topic, well organized table, easy to read"
Ed Price: "Great table and good use of cross-linking to related Wiki articles!"
Richard Mueller: "A great table and great references."
GL: "Good article."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.Congrats to Johnsom, Tim, and Michael!
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Microsoft TechNet Wiki SSRS Guru - Winners for November!!
The results for November's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Sorry for the delay copying over to the forums, busy times indeed!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/12/16/technet-guru-awards-november-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for November!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your DECEMBER contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21343.technet-guru-contributions-for-december.aspx
Read all about December's competition in the stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for November. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint
Community! Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
litdev
Dynamic Graphics
Ed Price: "Incredibly detailed. A fantastic resource to keep coming back to! From the comments: "Wanted to say WOW - this is great!" and "Awesome. Thanks""
Nonki Takahashi
How to Make a Check Box
Ed Price: "Well formatted and in-depth how-to article! Great job!"
Joe Dwyer
Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners
Ed Price: "A well-articulated value statement for Small Basic! Thanks, Joe!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data
Richard Mueller: "Excellent article solving a common problem."
Ed Price: "Good details in the Solutions section!"
Samuel Lester: "Handy code and very slick solution!"
Ronen Ariely
Random String
Samuel Lester: "Great comparison and VERY useful information in the application testing space as you mentioned."
Ed Price: "Great detail and depth!"
Richard Mueller: "I disagree with several statements in the article. For example GUID values will be random."
Saeid Hasani
Simplified CASE expression
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and detailed explanations. Great job taking Carsten's advice (in the comments) and giving it good code formatting. It helps a lot!"
Samuel Lester: "Extremely thorough and a great read! Good addition!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
Reed Kimble
Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net
Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained."
MR: "Great article and well written."
SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well"
Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
.paul.
Shapes - Areas + Volumes
SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB."
Ed Price: ".paul. earns his first Gold Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers."
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code."
MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"
Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay
NN: "Short and swift and very informative article. I like all articles by Jaliya and this is no exception"
Ed Price: "Great formatting with thorough explanations!"
Deeptendra
Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C#
NN: "This article explains some basic C# concepts, but it will be much better if it would provide examples"
Ed Price: "Good comparison for starters, but it could go deeper on each class."
Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Learn about Class,Object and Constructors
NN: "Good and simple article that is helpful for C# beginners"
Ed Price: "As NN mentions above, this is a good article for new coders. As Carsten mentions in the comments, it would benefit from better code formatting."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013
mcosmin
Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles
RC: "A few interesting additions to the Media for
Windows Phone docs. For completeness it should also address how Media Foundation fits in. Also please update the MediaElement link to point at Windows Phone docs rather than Silverlight."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the classes! This article could benefit from a TOC."
AN: A good article, and useful subject!
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013
dev hedgehog
Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel
Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!"
Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid
Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation."
Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
Ayyappan
WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework
Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation."
Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013
Uwe Ricken
When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! I love it."
NN: "Great article, very comprehensive. Few drawbacks - it doesn't explain in details what the correct solution should be. Also, the code samples to the article include line numbers which make them harder to copy"
Ed Price: "As Saeid in the comments wrote, "I love this article. This article defines the quality!" Between the explanations, code, comments, and diagram, the story is told well."
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding explanation, format, and write-up! Superb again Uwe!"
DB: "Very interesting both in content and technique. "
DRC: "Very nice article, well documented with sample script and sample output. If we add the references to few of the topics discussed, would be helpful to understand the concept better so that the reader will get the complete picture
of the blog talks about. Definitely a TechNet WIKI article. "
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR
NN: "This article can not be read by its own without reading the article it refers to. The code is not explained, the process of creating CLR function is also not explained. So, it is not clear how this
C# code is used in SQL Server at all"
Ed Price: "This could benefit from much more explanation. "
Samuel Lester: "Very good article and a great in-depth break-out that compliments your broader random string tech-net Wiki article. Great read!"
DRC: "It would have been better if the code would also provide the below details: 1. How to load the dll generated in SQL Server memory 2. Sample T SQL script to use the function and a sample output for the same. "
Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013
Mr X
How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion
GL: "Good background and procedures."
JH: "great diagram, great topic. well written"
Richard Mueller: "Great information that could prevent a disaster."
JM: "Very good article"
Mr X
How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active
Directory Users and Computers
Richard Mueller: "Very valuable information. Needs a TOC. The tables and images help a lot."
GL: "Good detail in this article. I'd like to see a use case added."
JH: "very useful, nicely illustrated"
JM: "Very good article, but it would be good to improve readability by fixing minor errors in grammar (missing articles, pluralization sometimes incorrect)"
Mr X
Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational
Units in Active Directory
JM: "This is an excellent article and I'm sure a lot of Admins will find it very helpful."
JH: "good topic, well organized table, easy to read"
Ed Price: "Great table and good use of cross-linking to related Wiki articles!"
Richard Mueller: "A great table and great references."
GL: "Good article."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
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SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki SharePoint Guru - Winners for November!!
The results for November's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Sorry for the delay copying over to the forums, busy times indeed!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/12/16/technet-guru-awards-november-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for November!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your DECEMBER contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21343.technet-guru-contributions-for-december.aspx
Read all about December's competition in the stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for November. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint
Community! Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
litdev
Dynamic Graphics
Ed Price: "Incredibly detailed. A fantastic resource to keep coming back to! From the comments: "Wanted to say WOW - this is great!" and "Awesome. Thanks""
Nonki Takahashi
How to Make a Check Box
Ed Price: "Well formatted and in-depth how-to article! Great job!"
Joe Dwyer
Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners
Ed Price: "A well-articulated value statement for Small Basic! Thanks, Joe!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data
Richard Mueller: "Excellent article solving a common problem."
Ed Price: "Good details in the Solutions section!"
Samuel Lester: "Handy code and very slick solution!"
Ronen Ariely
Random String
Samuel Lester: "Great comparison and VERY useful information in the application testing space as you mentioned."
Ed Price: "Great detail and depth!"
Richard Mueller: "I disagree with several statements in the article. For example GUID values will be random."
Saeid Hasani
Simplified CASE expression
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and detailed explanations. Great job taking Carsten's advice (in the comments) and giving it good code formatting. It helps a lot!"
Samuel Lester: "Extremely thorough and a great read! Good addition!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
Reed Kimble
Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net
Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained."
MR: "Great article and well written."
SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well"
Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
.paul.
Shapes - Areas + Volumes
SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB."
Ed Price: ".paul. earns his first Gold Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers."
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code."
MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"
Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay
NN: "Short and swift and very informative article. I like all articles by Jaliya and this is no exception"
Ed Price: "Great formatting with thorough explanations!"
Deeptendra
Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C#
NN: "This article explains some basic C# concepts, but it will be much better if it would provide examples"
Ed Price: "Good comparison for starters, but it could go deeper on each class."
Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Learn about Class,Object and Constructors
NN: "Good and simple article that is helpful for C# beginners"
Ed Price: "As NN mentions above, this is a good article for new coders. As Carsten mentions in the comments, it would benefit from better code formatting."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013
mcosmin
Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles
RC: "A few interesting additions to the Media for
Windows Phone docs. For completeness it should also address how Media Foundation fits in. Also please update the MediaElement link to point at Windows Phone docs rather than Silverlight."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the classes! This article could benefit from a TOC."
AN: A good article, and useful subject!
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013
dev hedgehog
Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel
Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!"
Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid
Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation."
Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
Ayyappan
WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework
Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation."
Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013
Uwe Ricken
When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! I love it."
NN: "Great article, very comprehensive. Few drawbacks - it doesn't explain in details what the correct solution should be. Also, the code samples to the article include line numbers which make them harder to copy"
Ed Price: "As Saeid in the comments wrote, "I love this article. This article defines the quality!" Between the explanations, code, comments, and diagram, the story is told well."
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding explanation, format, and write-up! Superb again Uwe!"
DB: "Very interesting both in content and technique. "
DRC: "Very nice article, well documented with sample script and sample output. If we add the references to few of the topics discussed, would be helpful to understand the concept better so that the reader will get the complete picture
of the blog talks about. Definitely a TechNet WIKI article. "
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR
NN: "This article can not be read by its own without reading the article it refers to. The code is not explained, the process of creating CLR function is also not explained. So, it is not clear how this
C# code is used in SQL Server at all"
Ed Price: "This could benefit from much more explanation. "
Samuel Lester: "Very good article and a great in-depth break-out that compliments your broader random string tech-net Wiki article. Great read!"
DRC: "It would have been better if the code would also provide the below details: 1. How to load the dll generated in SQL Server memory 2. Sample T SQL script to use the function and a sample output for the same. "
Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013
Mr X
How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion
GL: "Good background and procedures."
JH: "great diagram, great topic. well written"
Richard Mueller: "Great information that could prevent a disaster."
JM: "Very good article"
Mr X
How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active
Directory Users and Computers
Richard Mueller: "Very valuable information. Needs a TOC. The tables and images help a lot."
GL: "Good detail in this article. I'd like to see a use case added."
JH: "very useful, nicely illustrated"
JM: "Very good article, but it would be good to improve readability by fixing minor errors in grammar (missing articles, pluralization sometimes incorrect)"
Mr X
Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational
Units in Active Directory
JM: "This is an excellent article and I'm sure a lot of Admins will find it very helpful."
JH: "good topic, well organized table, easy to read"
Ed Price: "Great table and good use of cross-linking to related Wiki articles!"
Richard Mueller: "A great table and great references."
GL: "Good article."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.Congrats to Brandon, Matthew, and Benoit!
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint Community!
Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
A New Year, a New Challenge! Become the FIRST T-SQL Guru of 2015!
Happy New Year!
"Guru 2014" is so 'last year'!
The real glory is to be the first Guru of 2015! :D
The birth of a new year, and a new hero?
Or the stamp of authority from long established Guru leaders?
The challenge is on, all eyes are watching, anyone could win this month.
The prize? Glory! Honor! Virtual medals! Unashamed love and worship from those within the community and those bloging about it (article spotlights,
weekly awards).
Published interviews and the chance to climb the TechNet social ladder. Become a true TNWiki Ninja and
advance through to black belt... and beyond!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
Feel free to ask any questions below.
More about TechNet Guru Awards
Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!I was looking where I can say, Happy new year to all :-)
Thanks XAML for
the info
Ronen Ariely
[Personal Site] [Blog] [Facebook]
You have a new signature for 2015! Looks good. Great formatting!
And Happy New Year to you too!
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
A New Year, a New Challenge! Become the FIRST SQL Server Guru of 2015!
Happy New Year!
"Guru 2014" is so 'last year'!
The real glory is to be the first Guru of 2015! :D
The birth of a new year, and a new hero?
Or the stamp of authority from long established Guru leaders?
The challenge is on, all eyes are watching, anyone could win this month.
The prize? Glory! Honor! Virtual medals! Unashamed love and worship from those within the community and those bloging about it (article spotlights,
weekly awards).
Published interviews and the chance to climb the TechNet social ladder. Become a true TNWiki Ninja and
advance through to black belt... and beyond!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
Feel free to ask any questions below.
More about TechNet Guru Awards
Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Is this program initiated by Microsoft or ....?
Ahsan Kabir Please remember to click Mark as Answer and Vote as Helpful on posts that help you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. http://www.aktechforum.blogspot.com/
Yes. It's co-run by Microsoft and the TechNet Wiki Community Council, which includes amazing Partners and collaborators like XAML guy.
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki SharePoint 2010 Guru - Winners for December!!
The results for December's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/01/16/technet-guru-awards-december-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for December!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your JANUARY contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22211.technet-guru-contributions-for-january-2014.aspx
Read all about January's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - December 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Managing Windows Azure BizTalk Services with REST API
Ed Price: "I'm not sure how you come up with such vital topics, but this is as important as it comes, and you nailed it!!!"
TGN: "It's almost unfair for others, Steef-Jan is a God when it comes to writing tutorials and articles, great one!"
Sandro Pereira
BizTalk Server: Grouping and Sorting Operations Inside BizTalk Maps
Using the Muenchian Method
TGN: "Very good article, I love this. Explains grouping and sorting in a good way, and by following best practice. Very good Sandro"
Ed Price: "Great explanations and fantastic formatting!"
Maheshkumar S Tiwari
BizTalk Server 2010: How to Insert Image In SQL Through Orchestration
Ed Price: "Very clear instructions through great use of images!"
TGN: "Should contain a warning around the size of the images, I do not usually recommend this way when using BizTalk due to performance."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2013
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using C#
Craig Lussier: "A fantastic reference that every SharePoint developer should have bookmarked. Well done!"
GO: "Matthew knows how to write an article worthy of recognition! This is a reliable source and contains many SharePoint and PowerShell examples that will be useful for IT-PRO as developers! A big thank you for your participation and your
articles Matthew! Excellent work!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "What a handy reference!"
Ed Price: "What an epic article! From Mohammad in the comments: "this is something to add in my favourites, thanks"
Jinchun Chen: "Good guide"
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates
Ed Price: "The comments say it well. From Matthew: "Great article Benoit! I agree, it's a great feature!" From Dan: "I agree with Matthew. I can see myself refer to this article in the near future. I'm definitely
adding this to my bookmark list. Thank you Benoit for sharing your knowledge.""
Craig Lussier: "Great walkthrough of Display Templates in SharePoint 2013. Well written, great screenshots and thoughtful material. "
GO: "If you want to have a better knowledge of SharePoint 2013, Benoit is your man! Again a great article: The use of XSLT ? Done ! This article absolutely deserves a medal!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Not a big fan of design manager, but def. a nice write-up"
Nilesh Jain
Sharepoint 2010 : A Complete list of SPFile Operations using ECMA Script
Jinchun Chen: "Good getting start"
GO: "This articles show us various methods/properties associated with SPFile object! Clever article and well written! Great source!"
Craig Lussier: "Well written reference for SPFile operations with solid examples. "
Ed Price: "Solid formatting! Great comments on this article: From Matthew: "Nice article Nilesh!" From Dan: "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a big fan of using screenshots when writing an article and you've definitely
done a great job here. Thanks again.""
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice idea, but the reference is too short to be really cool"
Small Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21694 - Font and Pen Width Change Earlier in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "This code is very helpful!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 22108 - Viewport of GraphicsWindow
is Narrower and Sometimes Resized in Remote
Ed Price: "The diagrams really help make this clear. Great job!"
RZ: "Again, very useful tip. And thank you highlighting them."
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21691 - Rectangle and Ellipse Become Smaller in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "Your samples you wrote help give these articles an added boost!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - December 2013
Tim Pacl
Functional Reports: Making a Report Into a Management Tool
NN: "Terrific article! Very helpful and clean steps"
Ed Price: "Tim nails it again with a fantastic and descriptive narrative on a great topic! It could be improved with images to show what you're describing. Fantastic article!"
Michael Amadi
A practical example of how to handle simple many to many
relationships in Power Pivot/SSAS Tabular models
Ed Price: "Great topic and great formatting! The descriptions are helpful, the images and the tables help clarify. The bold text really pops! Great article!"
NN: "Great article explaining a common problem and solution"
Tim Pacl
Using a Date Picker for an Analysis Data Query Parameter
NN: "Another interesting article by Tim"
Ed Price: "Another great article from Tim. Shorter but sweet!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2013
Uwe Ricken
How does SQL Server allocate space in a heap
Samuel Lester: "Amazing content, great presentation, and incredibly educational! "
DRC: "• Very nice article, very well documented. • Clear explanation of the behaviour and queries to trace the same. • This also explains the output of the queries which makes the users more comfortable while reproducing the behaviour
explained. • The only modification is to remove the .(dot) for the value “8.096” which should be 8096. "
DB: "Clear and informative explanation of details not available elsewhere."
Jinchun Chen: "Awesome"
Ed Price: "Another high-quality article from Uwe! Great formatting and even a good interaction with Shanky in the comments!"
NN: "Great and thorough article"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Relational Division
DB: "Clear and detailed."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very well done and well researched."
Ed Price: "The article comments say it welll. From Saeid: "Surprised with this one! This is really one of the important topics. Many questions in MSDN SQL forums are about this topic" From Carmelo: "Very good work Naomi!"
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding article again! As mentioned in the article and comments, variations of this question appear in the forums frequently and it is nice to have this article to reference. Great breadth and depth with each solution!"
Durval Ramos
How to extract data in XML to meet the requirements of a Schema
Samuel Lester: "Creative solution and great write-up! "
Richard Mueller: "The articles in this group were very close. This is a great article with outstanding links. The See Also section should only include Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Very detailed narrative that's well supported by great formatting and images! Great article!"
Saeid Hasani
Error handling within Triggers using T-SQL
Richard Mueller: "A well executed article. The trigger rules were confusing to me."
Ed Price: "Another great article from Saeid! This could be made better with more explanations for each step. Good job!"
Samuel Lester: "Great new content and nice companion to your prior article. "
Visual Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Dewayne Basnett
Prime Number Sieve
Richard Mueller: "Amazing material that will take some study, but very clever. Donald Knuth in "The Art of Computer Programming", vol. 2, says Eratosthenes filter only considers odd integers and increments from
p*p."
SB: "Nice article, not much practical use but just details coding for the fun of solving a problem"
HomeGrownCoder
Don't Throw Out the System Brushes
Richard Mueller: "An important concept that is well explained, with lots of links. Should have a See Also section."
SB: "Nice article which address a real world issue that occurs."
Paul Ishak
Declaring numeric data types
SB: "Good simple piece helping detail best numeric types to use."
Richard Mueller: "Basic recommendations. This article could use links and a See Also section."
Visual C# Technical Guru - December 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Loading Related Entities in Entity Framework
NN: "Very clear and helpful article! Nicely done"
DB: "Clear and informative."
Ed Price: "Fantastic article with a good suggestion in the comments. Could benefit from a TOC. Great job!"
chriga
Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of files and folders
NN: "Short and useful article"
DB: "Useful bit of information."
Ed Price: "Great formatting and article!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - December 2013
Saad Mahmood
Binding any JSON data list in your application in 10 mins.(Windows Phone)
Ed Price: "Great detail, formatting, and use of images!"
Peter Laker: "Nice simple example"
Saad Mahmood
Now Check for updates of your app inside your Windows Phone application
Ed Price: "Good use of code formatting. Could benefit from a TOC."
Peter Laker: "Great article, thanks Saad"
Ken Tucker
Convert date time received in JSON to a .Net DateTime
Ed Price: "It's valuable, short and sweet, good code commenting, and it has good interaction in the Wiki article comments. But it is a bit generic for this category."
Peter Laker: "Top tip, nice layout, thanks Ken!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - December 2013
dev hedgehog
The Myth of BindingGroup
Ed Price: "Very thorough article developed from forum questions. Great job! But why is it a Myth if it's really helpful? =^)"
Peter Laker: "Another excellent contribution from dev hedgehog. Good subject."
Shweta Lodha
Safest way to use RaisePropertyChanged method
Ed Price: "Good topic and explanations. Could be improved with black font and with a TOC. Good job!"
Peter Laker: "Nice tip from Shweta. There are various variations to this."
chriga
Binding of DataGrid column header
Ed Price: "Short and sweet! Fantastic formatting and great descriptions help sell this one!"
Peter Laker: "Useful example and welcome edition to the knowledge base, thanks chrigra!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - December 2013
Mr X
How DNS aging and scavenging works
Richard Mueller: "Very good information. The images, links, and code example help a lot."
JH: "Brilliant article, great explanations and illustrations"
Ed Price: "Explanations, links, code, images, diagrams... it's all here! It could benefit from a TOC for easier navigation. Just add headers and then "[toc]" at the top of the article."
JM: "Excellent article and a nice use of good graphics, nice work!"
Kelly Bush
Delegate Replication Rights to non-admins
JM: "This is an excellent article, nice work!"
JH: "Like how author organized and summarized a forum post and added more, like "applies to" values "
Ed Price: "Good reference, instructions, explanations, and images! Could be improved with a TOC."
Richard Mueller: "On my first reading of the articles in this section I had a 3 way tie for first. This article covers a very important concept for security. It could use a See Also section."
Mr X
How to mark an Active Directory attribute to be copied when duplicating
a user template
Richard Mueller: "Very useful and well explained information. Very good images. This could use a See Also section."
JM: "This is an excellent article, however the first sentence needs to be revised for clarity."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
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SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2013
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using C#
Craig Lussier: "A fantastic reference that every SharePoint developer should have bookmarked. Well done!"
GO: "Matthew knows how to write an article worthy of recognition! This is a reliable source and contains many SharePoint and PowerShell examples that will be useful for IT-PRO as developers! A big thank you for your participation and your articles
Matthew! Excellent work!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "What a handy reference!"
Ed Price: "What an epic article! From Mohammad in the comments: "this is something to add in my favourites, thanks"
Jinchun Chen: "Good guide"
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates
Ed Price: "The comments say it well. From Matthew: "Great article Benoit! I agree, it's a great feature!" From Dan: "I agree with Matthew. I can see myself refer to this article in the near future. I'm definitely adding this
to my bookmark list. Thank you Benoit for sharing your knowledge.""
Craig Lussier: "Great walkthrough of Display Templates in SharePoint 2013. Well written, great screenshots and thoughtful material. "
GO: "If you want to have a better knowledge of SharePoint 2013, Benoit is your man! Again a great article: The use of XSLT ? Done ! This article absolutely deserves a medal!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Not a big fan of design manager, but def. a nice write-up"
Nilesh Jain
Sharepoint 2010 : A Complete list of SPFile Operations using ECMA Script
Jinchun Chen: "Good getting start"
GO: "This articles show us various methods/properties associated with SPFile object! Clever article and well written! Great source!"
Craig Lussier: "Well written reference for SPFile operations with solid examples. "
Ed Price: "Solid formatting! Great comments on this article: From Matthew: "Nice article Nilesh!" From Dan: "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a big fan of using screenshots when writing an article and you've definitely done a great
job here. Thanks again.""
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice idea, but the reference is too short to be really cool"
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