Carsten is a Senior Technical Architect working at Capgemini. He contributes on TechNet Wiki and Forums. Carsten is a moderator of the German Translation Wiki. He also supports Peter Geelen and Noami N in the Community Council's area of focus "Spam, Plagiarism, & Article Deletion". His favorite MS technologies/products are C#, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure.

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How to Get High-Quality Icons Using Visual Studio Image Library (also available in German)
Almost all UI applications need icons and bitmaps. However, it's not an easy task to create or find icons which match the Windows style, look like well known Microsoft icons and are royalty-free ... unless you use the Visual Studio Image Library which contains over 7750 high quality icons and bitmaps from Visual Studio, Office, Windows and other Microsoft applications. (read more)
How to Query Trees Using LINQ (also available in German)
A (directed) tree is one of the most common data types. But how do you use trees in LINQ? This article introduces a generic LINQ-Extension which solves the problem, gives an example and discusses alternatives. (read more)
IKVM.NET (also available in German)
This article gives a very brief overview of IKVM.NET. IKVM makes it possible to execute Java bytecode with the .NET or Mono. A link list helps getting started. (read more)
Plagiarism at TechNet Wiki - First Empirical Data and Analysis
You may have noticed it: Plagiarism in TechNet Wiki is becoming a problem, and it is getting more attention now. This article presents a first empirical analysis, gives insights to some mechanisms behind plagiarism, explains the current rules, shows alternatives to plagiarism, and summarizes the critical points. Last but not least it proposes first steps to fix the problem. (read more)
Plagiarism Charts - September 2013
In July 2013 the article Plagiarism at TechNet Wiki - First Empirical Data Analysis presented a first empirical analysis, gave insights to mechanisms behind plagiarism and proposed first steps to fix the problem. Three month later TechNet Wiki is on the right track: The Community Council extended the focus area "Spam & Article Deletion" to "Spam, Plagiarism & Article Deletion" and is working on a strong framework. Improvements should be measured. This article gives facts and figures about plagiarism at TechNet Wiki for September 2013. (read more)
SignalR
SignalR makes it easy to build multi-user, real-time web applications with ASP.NET. SignalR establishes a persistent bidirectional connection which enables the server to call client methods or send messages to the client. This article gives a brief overview of SignalR. A commented link list helps getting started. This article is also a landing page for SignalR. (read more)
TechNet Guru Contributions - Miscellaneous
This article lists all articles that participated in the TechNet Guru Contributions in the Miscellaneous category. (read more)
TechNet Guru Contributions - System Center
This article lists all articles that participated in the TechNet Guru Contributions in the 'System Center' category. (read more)
TechNet Guru Contributions - Wiki and Portals
This article lists all articles that participated in the TechNet Guru Contributions in the 'Wiki and Portals' category. (read more)
TechNet Guru Contributions - Windows Server
This article lists all articles that participated in the TechNet Guru Contributions in the 'Windows Server' category. (read more)
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Visual Studio 2013 Portal
This portal page collects and organizes TechNet Wiki links (and some Microsoft links) concerning Visual Studio 2013. You are encouraged to add additional links. (read more)
Wiki Bugfix: Changed Tags on The History Tab (also available in German)
This article enables you to fix a well known TechNet Wiki bug: Changed tags are not correctly displayed on the History tab. A Greasemonkey script does the trick. The fix works with Chrome, Firefox and Opera. (read more)
Wiki: Pirated Content Portal
This article is intended as a landing page for the management of pirated content and plagiarism. It does not define new rules - it simply summarizes facts, articles and post (and adds some teasers). (read more)
Windows Azure Portal
This article is a landing page for Windows Azure. You are encouraged to contribute to this portal.
"Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment." [windowsazure.com] (read more)
Windows Server 2016 Portal
This article is a landing page for Windows Server 2016. (read more)

Articles in German

Baumstrukturen mit LINQ abfragen (de-DE)
(Gerichtete) Bäume gehören zu den häufigsten Datenstrukturen in der Informatik. Wie sie mit LINQ genutzt werden, ist aber weniger offensichtlich. Dieser Artikel definiert eine generische LINQ-Extension, die dieses Problem löst, zeigt Beispiele und diskutiert Alternativen. (weiter lesen)
IKVM.NET (de-DE)
Dieser Artikel gibt einen ersten, sehr kurz gehaltenen Überblick über IKVM.NET. Eine Link-Liste erleichtert die ersten Schritte. (weiter lesen)
Visual Studio Image Library - Hochwertige Icons zur freien Verwendung (de-DE)
Es ist eine Selbstverständlichkeit: Anwendungen mit grafischer Oberfläche benötigen Icons und Bitmaps. Deutlich schwieriger ist es jedoch, Icons zu finden oder zu erstellen, die zum Windows Style passen, bekannten Microsoft Icons ähneln und außerdem noch frei verfügbar sind... Es sei denn, Sie verwenden die Visual Studio Image Library. Sie enthält über 7750 qualitativ hochwertige Icons und Bitmaps von Visual Studio, Office, Windows und anderen Microsoft Anwendungen. (weiter lesen)
Wiki Bugfix: Geänderte Tags auf History Tabs
Dieser Artikel hilft, einen bekannten TechNet Wiki Bug zu beheben: Geänderte Tags werden auf dem History Tab nicht korrekt angezeigt. Ein Greasemonkey-Script erledigt diese Aufgabe. Dieser Bugfix funktioniert mit Chrome, Firefox und Opera. (weiter lesen)

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TechNet Wiki Bugfix: Changed Tags on The History Tab
This contribution fixes a well known TechNet Wiki bug: Changed tags are not correctly displayed on the History tab. A Tampermonkey script does the trick. The fix works with Chrome, Dolphin Browser, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera Next, Safari, and UC Browser. (read more)
TechNet Wiki Bugfix: Save with Retry
This contribution mitigates a well common TechNet Wiki bug: Saving an article often fails and may require several manual retries. This TamperMonkey scripts an additional "Save!" button which automatically retries a failing save action up to 10 times. The fix works with Chrome, Dolphin Browser, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera Next, Safari, and UC Browser. (read more)
TechNet Wiki - Browser Extension: Spam Tagging
This contribution makes it easy to tag inappropriate TechNet Wiki articles as spam. A Tampermonkey script does the trick. The fix works with Chrome, Dolphin Browser, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera Next, Safari, UC Browser. (read more)