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BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
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Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
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Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings by XAML
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Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs by Andy
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For the love of god do not shut down this store in my town.
To whom it may concern,
Lets get down to business on this problem that my town is facing. One, the Verizon corporate store in Escanaba, Mi is closing? For the love of god why are you guys doing this? I have had a great experience in dealing with Verizon over the years from helping me with my phone problems to just being very helpful when I need a new product upgrade. The other affiliate store in my area (That will remain nameless) that are not knowledgeable as those folks at the corporate store. One time I went to an affiliate store to edge up and that was a complete nightmare and a half. I asked for a phone (HTC One M8 Windows) that I wanted and what did these guys do? They sold me the same exact model but it was the Androd version! The saleswoman (Which was the store manager) told me you can make this into a windows version (Which is a big NO-NO because that would void my warranty for Jail-breaking!) and messed up my contract to the point i couldn't (also breaking contract) edge up for 30 days! After fixing this at the Escanaba corporate store to the actual phone after that mess up when I didn't want the Android Phone! So, if you want to keep your loyal customers like myself that is a military veteran that owns and manage a Computer Company Also my other relatives that own trucking companies and insurance agencies. I would suggest that you please reconsider this disastrous move of closing the best Wireless Store in my area.
Thank you for your time.what do you mean by coming back? you delete the glow, save the file and when you reopen that file is the glow present or just after you select one of the layer comps?
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Below is a summary, heavily trimmed to fit the size restrictions of forum posting.
BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
boatseller
BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
Murugesan Mari Chettiar
How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - June 2014
Remi Vandemir
Custom Reports in FIM2010R2
AM: "Great step-by-step guide for generating custom reports. Thanks for taking the time to put this together."
PG: "Nice article, in an area that is less known!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Very comprehensive."
Ed Price: "Great job on the intro, and a lot of images really help clarify all the steps!"
GO: "Thank you "
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2: Review pending export changes to Active Directory using XSLT
Ed Price: "Great introduction, great steps, and great job on the image and code formatting!"
GO: "An introduction, a sample code, images, a TOC and a conclusion. Nothing here to preserve the GOLD medal!"
PG: "Nice article!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice and precise"
Scott Eastin
A Practical Alternative to the PeopleSoft
AM: "Thank you for sharing. Great (and probably superior) alternative for those using PeopleSoft as import-only data source."
GO: "Amazing article, love it so much"
PG: "Would like to see more elaborated details in this article."
Søren Granfeldt: "A little more technical stuff would be nice"
Ed Price: "Some good community collaboration in removing blog-like personalization. This is a great topic with some good holistic thinking!"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
on Azure VMs
JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
Mr X
How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
Mr X
How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
How to open Visio files without Visio
AH: "This Article is pretty basic and lacks details. Visio Viewer doesn't just open in IE but also in Outlook and File explorer. The writer should include the link to http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/28/download-the-free-microsoft-visio-viewer/
this blog which has lot more details "
Ed Price: "Good. I think the SEO on the title will drive more awareness of the Visio Viewer."
GO: "Thanks you Mr.X! Again a great article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - June 2014
Ed Price - MSFT
Yammer: Announcements Feature
TGN: "Wow, not only is this a good way on how to write annoncments on Yammer, but in generel. Really, really great write-up Ed! T"
GO: "Tord says on the comment section: "Very nice article, Ed. I really enjoyed reading it and you had a great set of tips. Thanks for sharing!".. I only can respond AMEN! Thanks Ed!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good discussion of announcements feature."
Anthony Caragol
Backing Up and Restoring Lync 2013 Contacts
Margriet Bruggeman: "Short & Sweet"
GO: "Great article, but I'm missing, examples, images, definitions etc for a huge section like "backup and restore""
TGN: "Very good, Lync has eaten up the market and is a key product in most companies, articles like this is very valuable. Great work Anthony!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
Jaydeep Mungalpara
Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
Dan Christian
PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
litdev
Small Basic: Sprite Arrays
Ed Price: "An important topic that's well described with fantastic examples! Great article!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great starter for Sprite Fundamentals and how to handle them. Briljant start point for greating you 2D shooter"
Jibba Jabba
Small Basic - Monthly Challenge Statistics
Ed Price: "Jibba Jabba brings us astonishing insights and data about LitDev's Small Basic Monthly Challenges!"
RZ: "This is very nicely done and showed all the statistics visually"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Challenge of the Month
RZ: "This is very nicely done and organized all challenges of the month in one place"
Ed Price: "Although this is very basic, it's incredibly helpful to get all these in one list and to access all the great challenges!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good explainer on fundamental structures."
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - June 2014
Anil Maharjan
Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting. I liked this best"
PT: "Plenty to like here"
Ed Price: "Great! I love to see Power Query articles like this! Great formatting and use of images!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS Expressions: Part 1 - Program Flow
PT: "A very comprehensive article about program flow expressions. Nice job. I'm sure many will benefit from this article. Just a little feedback about some terminology that could be more clear: The entire statement that
is typically used to set a property value for an object in an SSRS report is an "expression". Each of the three programming constructs you've mentioned (e.g. IIF, SWITCH & CHOOSE) are "functions" and not expressions or statements."
Jinchun Chen: "Perfect! Good article for SSRS newbie."
Ed Price: "The table and images help bring it more value. Great job!"
Anil Maharjan
How to Schedule and Automate backups of all the SSAS catalogs within the
Server Instance
PT: "This is a very useful article about automating multiple Analysis Services database backups using an SSIS package and the SQL Server Agent. Nice job."
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could be improved with better code formatting. Good job!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014
Shanky
SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
DB: "Interesting and detailed"
DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
[C1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [C2] [char](50) NULL DEFAULT 'DEFAULT TEST DATA' ) ON [PRIMARY]"
GO: "Very informative and well formed article as Said says.. Thanks for that great ressource. "
Durval Ramos
How to get row counts for all Tables
GO: "As usual Durva has one of the best articles about SQL Server General and Database Engine articles! Thanks, buddy!" "
Jinchun Chen: "Another great tip!"
PT: "Nice tip"
Ed Price: "Good topic, formatting, and use of images. This would be far better if the examples didn't require the black bars in the images. So it would be better to scrub the data before taking the screenshots. Still a good article. Thank
you!"
System Center Technical Guru - June 2014
Prajwal Desai
Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
Mr X
How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
pools using Orchestrator
MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
Prajwal Desai
How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
Ed Price: "Great job documenting the entire process!!!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2014
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
JS: "I loved the article, well structured, to the point. Not missing any caveats that might occur, really good in the end. I would suggest changing the function to accept a whitelist / blacklist as well as a length of
the password to be created. This would be the cherry on the pie :-)"
Samuel Lester: "Very nice writeup for a real world problem!"
Richard Mueller: "Clever and apparently well researched. I liked the detailed step by step explanations."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
Manoj Pandey: "A good and handy utility TSQL that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Hasham Niaz
T-SQL : Average Interval Length
Richard Mueller: "A good article, but I need more explanation of the concepts."
Manoj Pandey: "A handy TSQL script that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Visakh16
T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
Manoj Pandey: "Good shortcut by using TSQL with XML to read metadata information from SSIS XML file."
Samuel Lester: "Handy trick, thanks for posting!"
Richard Mueller: "Good code, but more explanation needed. Could use a See Also section."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
The Thinker
Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
Richard Mueller: "Good use of images and code. The humorous title might be better in a blog."
MR: "Great topic!"
GO: "Well, to be honnest, many people worked on that article, but still, the owner "the thinker" should receive the credits! muchos gracias "The Thinker" for the Most Revised Article"
Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2014
Jaliya Udagedara
Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
and Fluent API
Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
GO: "Thank you."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - June 2014
XAML guy
History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
Ed Price: "It's amazing to see all the details of what this tool does. Great job on the descriptions and formatting the images and text!"
Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
GO: "I love your articles XAML guy! Always clear and always a pleasure to read! Thanks for you help and commitment for this tool."
Durval Ramos
HTML5 Portal
Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
Richard Mueller: "A great contribution to our collection of portals"
GO: "The HTML5 Portal is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !"
João Sousa
ASP.NET Portal
Ed Price: "Good job on this portal! The Return to top links are helpful!"
Richard Mueller: "More should be done to distinguish this portal from
here."
GO: "Thanks Joao!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014
Dave Smits
Theming of your application
Peter Laker: "Another great article from the mighty Dave. Very useful. Not sure if MS like us want us to work around the accents so much though ;)"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic and great formatting on the code! Could benefit from more explanation on the code toward the bottom and a See Also section. Great article!"
saramgsilva
Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
Peter Laker: "A great introduction! Nice walkthrough, and plenty to look at!"
Ed Price: "This is good. I love the narrative and use of images! Good conclusion!"
Carmelo La Monica
Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
Peter Laker: "Sensational article. A real attention grabber and written very clearly."
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the narrative and images. Some amazing articles this month!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
KJ: "This article seemed very useful to me. The kind of thing that I might need and here's the answer."
GO: "Thanks for that great article!."
Ed Price: "Another amazing article from Magnus! Great job on the topic choice (very needed scenario), formatting, code, explanations, and See Also section. Fantastic article!"
Sugumar Pannerselvam
Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
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GO: "Why second place? the layout and way to explain didn't convince me. Doesn't mean that the article is bad. The article is awesome; but it's missing something."
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Could benefit from adding in some code snippet examples and images. Good topic choice."
Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
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Mr X
How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
GO: "I'm actually thinking that nobody can defaut you Mr.X"
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GL: "This is OK but a better solution for a highly utilized DHCP scope would be to shorten the lease time and/or configure a superscope."
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014
Shanky
SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
DB: "Interesting and detailed"
DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
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How to get row counts for all Tables
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Null values not displaying in the LOV on the parameter form.
My report works perfect while in Oracle Reports 10g, however when I move it to our menu (Oracle Forms 10g) it does not display the null in the LOV on the parameter form.
This report allows the the user to select by inspector or district or everyone for certain dates.
Ex: I have 4 parameter fields. The user must enter the start & end dates and either the Inspector or the district or leave the inspector or district null to run for everyone.
The district LOV is :
select dnr_section_code, description from dnr_section_code where dnr_section_code in ('29', '38','52')
UNION
select null, 'All' from dual
order by 2 asc ;
The inspector LOV is:
select null , 'All' from dual
UNION
select person_seq, first_name||' '||last_name inspector from vw_eng_inspectors
order by 2 asc
In my Data Model query I use the :
My select
from tables
where clause
+
----by inspector
and (prod_fac_inspections.person_seq_inspector =
nvl(:inspector,prod_fac_inspections.person_seq_inspector))
---by district
and
(d.dnr_section_code = nvl(:district,d.dnr_section_code)
and d.person_seq = prod_fac_inspections.person_seq_inspector)
Again, it works perfect in Reports! It eliminates having 3 reports on the menu. This one report gives the user the option of selecting dynamic parameters.
Also, I got so frustrated, that I went a different route of using a default where.
I am stuck with the error of ORA:00933 SQL command not ended properly
1=1
I set the initial value to 1=1 and it does not like it.
I am stuck!
DB = Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0Hi Krishna,
I'm not sure I understand the probelm.
A progress bar control only displays numeric values. When do you mean by "unassigned values"? What would you expect to be presented?
Best regards,
Udi -
Remember the anthem in 1984? The call for independence? The hammer that shattered the drone which kept us all in line - servants to the man? I do. I begged the hammer to be thrown and cheered when the glass shattered. I evangelized for the awakening and paid with my ducketts and dreams. I have given the wry smile to poor lemmings who followed Bill's way and stepped in line. I was proud to know I'd avoided the man. I was me, not them. But I worry that I've fed the beast. Have I been an unknowing servant to something worse? Have I been so blind to miss that I was beholden, but with a loose collar and long leash? I hope not ... Apple please help me see I haven't been wrong with every keystroke on my IIe, IIci, Bondi, iPods, MBPs, Airs and more. Send me a sign. Show me the light again. Set me free again.
iCloud, iTunes Match, Macs, iPods, iPhones and family do not work together. Period. You see, my wife, two children and I were .Mac users on a family account - we each had / have .mac email addresses which have become our AppleIDs. We happily purchased and shared (within the family) bazillions of dollars worth of music, video and apps together and under our own accounts. We all enjoyed our independence from one-another and from you. And it all worked well. Very well. But now you've gone and thrown it all away. Nothing works well.
We've had to merge new purchases to a new "family" AppleID.
Updating iOS apps on our iPhones requires entering EACH of our four (ahem, now five) AppleIDs and passwords.
Sharing music and using Match meant centralizing to one library, centralizing playlists, effing up syncing, and creating a permissions nightmare on our shared iMac that houses the master music library. (now iTunes fails to open if one user account forgot to close iTunes before not logging out.)
Sigh. There more but I'm exhausted.
This is a nightmare. I'm now dad and IT guy for the family. Remember when using a Mac meant you didn't need an IT guy? I want those days again. I don't want to feel powerless under the thumb of the man. Like I need to get OSX or iOS certified. Seriously? Certified?
Apple: just get it right. For gods sake. Fix this cloud debacle. Give families who willingly, happily, legally used .Mac together - the familial womb for which the next Apple revolution will either prosper or wither and die - the same independence they / we had before the cloud and the match.
I'd settle if you would Sync our purchases to a single account at the very least. At least that would suck less.
Give us the chance to love you again. Fix this please. Please?Thanks. I appreciate your help. But that's not quite what's happening. Here are the specifics of our scenario:
Our accounts then:
[email protected] was the master account.
[email protected] was a secondary account.
[email protected] was a secondary account.
[email protected] was a secondary account.
Secondary accounts were subordinate by way of mobile me, family accounts if you will.
On our shared iMac then:
User dad had a [email protected] iTunes library.
User mom had a [email protected] iTunes library.
User kid1 had a [email protected] iTunes library.
User kid2 had a [email protected] iTunes library.
The libraries were stored in the /user/music/itunes folders for each user.
Purchases were made on each user's library.
The media / content (videos and music) was shared between the libraries and stored on a shared drive. The apps were stores in each user's /user/music/itunes folder.
[email protected] was used for all OSX app store purchases on the Mac by each user.
On our iOS devices then:
On dad's iPhone, [email protected] was used for everything.
On mom's iPhone, [email protected] was used for everything.
On kid1's iPod, [email protected] was used for everything.
On kid2's iPhone, [email protected] was used for everything.
The iOS devices were sync'd with each /user/music/itune's iTunes library.
We each had unique playlists and our own apps.
Purchases were made on each iOS device.
So, each user was fully independant in terms of purchasing and use.
The dilemma: iTunes Match (and iCloud) cannot sync four libraries unless there are four independant iTunes Match accounts. This would forever divide our family. Yes, it's that dramatic. (smile)
So, with advice from upper-level Apple Tech Support, I made a master account with a new AppleID: [email protected]. This account would become the hub for iTunes Match and all future purchases on iOS and OSX devices.
Now we look like this:
Our accounts now:
[email protected] is the master account.
[email protected] is a user account.
[email protected] is a user account.
[email protected] is a user account.
[email protected] is a user account.
The master account is assigned to OSX app, Match and iTunes.
User accounts are linked to mail / cal / find my / etc. activities.
On our shared iMac now:
[email protected] is the shared iTunes library.
User dad shares [email protected] iTunes library.
User mom shares [email protected] iTunes library.
User kid1 shares [email protected] iTunes library.
User kid2 shares [email protected] iTunes library.
The [email protected] iTunes library is located on a shared drive.
As a side note, the permissions now get totally muffed up when any user forgets to close their iTunes account and another user opens their iTunes client ... sharing the same library. A nice little bonus I wasn't prepared for.
Purchases are made through the [email protected] library.
Apps have been consolidated (from each /user/music/itunes folder) to the now shared folder.
* Old apps are owned by the users. New apps are owned by [email protected]. Updates require the owner's AppleID / password.
** If a user AppleID is entered in iTunes to update his apps, Match is broken. Match gets reset when [email protected] signs in again.
[email protected] is used for all OSX app store purchases on the Mac by each user.
** Old apps are owned by [email protected]. New apps are owned by [email protected]. Updates require the owner's AppleID / password.
On our iOS devices now:
On dad's iPhone, [email protected] is used for mail / cal / etc.; [email protected] is used for music / match / iTunes.
On mom's iPhone, [email protected] is used for mail / cal / etc.; [email protected] is used for music / match / iTunes.
On kid1's iPod, [email protected] is used for mail / cal / etc.; [email protected] is used for music / match / iTunes.
On kid2's iPhone, [email protected] is used for mail / cal / etc.; [email protected] is used for music / match / iTunes.
The iOS devices are sync'd to [email protected] iTunes library.
Purchases are made on each iOS device to [email protected].
* We now have shared playlists and everyone's apps.
So, each user is now not fully independant in terms of purchasing and use.
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