Introduction
November's competition has now closed. The results are
here.
December's competition is
HERE.
If you contribute any new code, or solutions to problems in the following categories, please add your content (that you write for a Forum or Blog) to TechNet Wiki, and then add a link to your TechNet Wiki article below,
to let us know.
This is a TechNet Wiki awards program, so we only want WIKI LINKS for articles created in November, not old, external forum or gallery links. If you
have already made a contribution
on the forums or gallery, simply copy it into the wiki and reference the original article,
like shown here.
One winner in each category will be selected each month for glory and adoration by the MSDN/TechNet Ninjas and
community as a whole. This includes a dedicated blog post in the Wiki
Ninjas blog, a tweet from the Wiki Ninjas Twitter account, an announcement on your forum, and other acknowledgement from the community.
Winners will be voted on by five judges. The judges consist of 3 TechNet Wiki Community Council members and 2 Microsoft Employee SMEs (Subject Matter Experts -usually the people making the technologies). The judges will be looking for articles that are thorough,
technically accurate, visually clear (images might help, but aren't necessary), and well written. (Any community member can help with the "technically accurate" part by reviewing the articles below and either fixing inaccuracies
in the article or commenting
on them--asking questions or suggesting fixes.) The articles must be written in November 2013 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before November. Make sure you aren't taking credit for someone
else's content (you have to
be the author of the original content and of the Wiki article). The categories listed are targeted to the most popular forums/technologies and ones that we are able to support. We will add more categories as we go (please don't add more categories,
instead, leave a comment at the bottom to suggest a new category).
How to Enter
1) Create a new TechNet article
YOU CAN COPY YOUR CONTRIBUTION FROM MSDN/TECHNET FORUMS OVER TO TECHNET WIKI (IN NOVEMBER) TO QUALIFY FOR THESE AWARDS. You can also create a new article not related to your forums contributions.A) Log into TechNet/MSDN with your Microsoft credentials
B) Add your content as an article to TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/add.aspx
If you are copying and pasting your MSDN/TechNet forum solutions over to TechNet Wiki, please give some introduction to the problem, make sure your steps are clear, and then link to the original forum post. You can also paste in your blog posts (rather than forum content).
2) Tell us about it
To add a link to your article:A) Log into TechNet with your Microsoft credentials
B) Click the "Edit" tab, above this article title, and copy in the URL to your TechNet Wiki article into the appropriate section.
Categories
Add Your Contributions for November in the Sections Below...
NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in November 2013.
BizTalk
The TechNet Guru competition will be announced in the forums soon like in this
BizTalk forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:
- BizTalk Server: An Easy Way to Get BizTalk Alerts by Suleiman Shakhtour
- BizTalk Server 2010: How to use SFTP Adapter by Mohit Gupta
- BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline by Suleiman Shakhtour
- BizTalk Server 2010: Fetching ISA and GS Segment Values From Interchange Envelope and Mapping by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
- How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool by Tomasso Groenendijk
- BizTalk Server 2013:How to Configure SFTP Send Port Dynamically by Suleiman Shakhtour
- BizTalk Server:Using Global Variable in Mapping by Suleiman Shakhtour
- Provisioning Windows Azure BizTalk Services - GA by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Forefront Identity Manager
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this
FIM forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your FIM contribution here:
- Replace with "article by name" (hyperlinked to article and profile page)
SharePoint 2010 / 2013
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this
SharePoint General forum thread and in
this SharePoint Development forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of SharePoint contribution here:
- Create Publishing Pages from XML in Sandbox by Jurgen Wiersema
- Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts by Brandon Atkinson
- A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell by Matthew Yarlett
- SharePoint 2010: How to add a Deep Zoom to a SharePoint Site by Steven Andrews
- SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation by Benoit Jester - MTFC
- Sharepoint 2010 :Setting Default value of managed metadata column for a completely new site collection by Nilesh Jain
Small Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this Small
Basic forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Small Basic contribution here:
- Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners by Joe Dwyer
- Dynamic Graphics by litdev
- How to Make a Check Box by Nonki Takahashi
- How to Remove Goto Statements by Nonki Takahashi
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot)
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this SSRS forum thread, this SSIS forum thread, this SSAS forum thread, and this PowerPivot forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BI contribution here:
- How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013 by johnsom
- MDX CurrentMember and DAX HASONEVALUE by Christian Wade
- SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List) by Tim Pacl
- SSRS: Chaining Parameters by Tim Pacl
- Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two user selected contexts by Michael Amadi
SQL Server General and Database Engine
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this SQL Server Getting Started forum thread and in this Database Engine forum thread .
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SQL Server contribution here:
- When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR by Uwe Ricken
- SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR by Ronen Ariely [Nickname PITUACH]
Transact-SQL
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this T-SQL forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your T-SQL contribution here:
- Query to generate combinations with output unpivoted into individual rows by Kev Riley
- Hierarchical table sorting with a parent-child relation by Kev Riley
- T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data by Naomi N
- Random String by Ronen Ariely (nickname pituach)
- Simplified CASE expression by Saeid Hasani
Visual Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this Visual Basic forum thread.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your VB contribution here:
- hangMan by .paul.
- Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net by Reed Kimble
- Shapes - Areas + Volumes by .paul.
Visual C#
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this Visual C# forum thread.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your C# contribution here:
- Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C# by Deeptendra
- Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay by Jaliya Udagedara
- Learn about Class,Object and Constructors by Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this Windows
Phone Development forum thread and in
this Windows Store app development forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Windows Phone contribution here:
- Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles by mcosmin
- Checklist for great apps by Dave Smits
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in this WPF forum
thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your WPF contribution here:
- WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework by Ayyappan
- Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel by dev hedgehog
- WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid by Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))
Windows Server
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the Windows Server General forum. the Windows Server 2012 forum, the Windows Server SDK forum, and the Directory Services forum.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:
- How to allow the Delegation of Filtered Properties in Active Directory Users and Computers by Mr X
- Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational Units in Active Directory by Mr X
- How to apply an AD DS Fine-Grained Password Policy on users under an Organizational Unit by Mr X
- KDC Resource SID Compression by Mr X
- Windows 2012 R2: How to Install and Prepare for Active Directory by Yagmoth555
- Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Best Practices for SharePoint use by Yagmoth555
- Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Installation by Yagmoth555
- How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active Directory Users and Computers by Mr X
- Active Directory: Ultimate Reading Collection by Kelly Bush
- How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion by by Mr X