Table of Contents
- Introduction
- How to Enter
- Categories
- Microsoft Azure
- BizTalk
- Forefront Identity Manager
- SharePoint 2010 / 2013
- Small Basic
- SQL BI & Power BI
- SQL Server General & Database Engine
- System Center
- Transact-SQL
- Microsoft Visio
- Visual Basic
- Visual C#
- Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- Windows Server
- Wiki and Portals
- Miscellaneous
- See Also
- This Month's Forum Announcements
Introduction
August's competition has now closed.
The winners are
HERE.
September competition is
HERE. Good luck!
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 August 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before August. 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 AUGUST) 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%20
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 AUGUST in the Sections Below...
NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in AUGUST 2014.
Microsoft Azure
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Azure contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Azure Search Client Library for .NET Framework by Alex Mang
- Introduction to Microsoft Azure Mobile Services by Abdul Rehman Aftab.
- Server Side Validation & Modification in Microsoft Azure Mobile Services by Abdul Rehman Aftab.
- Authentication & Authorization in Microsoft Azure Mobile Services by Abdul Rehman Aftab.
- How to Set up the Adventureworks Database on Azure Sql in a Couple of Minutes by Manuel Meyer
BizTalk
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:
- BizTalk Server: Debatching XML with envelope by Tord G. Nordahl
- Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 2 by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- BizTalk step-by-step: Configuring MSDTC by ThomasECanter
- BizTalk: Streamlining WCF SQL and Oracle Messaging-Only and Other Patterns by Johns-305 [boatseller]
- BizTalk Server 2010: Step-by-Step to implement Unit Testing in Schemas and Maps by Sandro Pereira
- BizTalk Server 2013: Step-by-Step to implement Unit Testing in Schemas and Maps by Sandro Pereira
- BizTalk: Deploying Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server 2006 and Higher by Johns-305 [boatseller]
Forefront Identity Manager
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums links available below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your FIM contribution here:
SharePoint 2010 / 2013
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of SharePoint contribution here
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- SharePoint Online: List Relationships Workaround by Dan Christian.
- Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App by Geetanjali Arora
- SharePoint Online with Visio Services by Dan Christian.
- SharePoint 2013/Office 365 : Working with Result Sources to limit search results. by Vipul Kelkar
- SharePoint Steps to Create Custom Word Template for Document Library Containing List Fields by Rahul Ranjan
- Installing Workflow Manager and Registering Workflow Services for SharePoint 2013 by Gayathri Narayanan
Small Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Small Basic contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Small Basic: How to Use MSDN Forum by Nonki Takahashi
SQL BI & Power BI
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BI contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Import SSIS2012 Project From Catalog Using T-SQL Script by Visakh16
- SSIS 2012 new REPLACENULL function by Jan D'Hondt
SQL Server General & Database Engine
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SQL Server contribution here:
- SQL GENERAL: Select records from one table based on fields in another table by Ike Ugochuku
- SQL General: Pragmatic Denormalisation by Andy O'Neill
- Freezing a Table on SQL Server by Durval Ramos
System Center
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your System Center contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Integrating a CMDB with Operations Manager by Nathan Foreman
Transact-SQL
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your T-SQL contribution here:
- SQL Server Unicode Madness: N'' is null, but not quite, null is not null, and N'' is N'Ǹ' ... what?!?! by Bodo Michael Danitz
- T-SQL: How to get the Latest Costs by Andy O'Neill
- Transact-SQL: Return DBCC output in a View by Ronen Ariely (pituach)
- Adding work days using T-SQL by Durval Ramos
Microsoft Visio
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Azure contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Build Visio 2013 diagram for SharePoint Online by Dan Christian.
Visual Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your VB contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Visual Basic Portal by Nonki Takahashi
- Versions and Tags for Visual Basic by Nonki Takahashi
Visual C#
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your C# contribution here:
- Analyzing C# code using NDepend by saramgsilva
- Expression Trees - Accessing Nested Properties by Jaliya Udagedara
- C#: Passing parameters by Andy O'Neill
- ASP.NET WebAPI - Enable Cors by João Sousa
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Windows Phone contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Geolocation Services on Windows Phone 8. by Carmelo La Monica
- How to fix fatal exceptions when doing intensive file IO in a windows runtime app by mcosmin
- by saramgsilva
- How to add marketplace review using the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (using MVVM) by saramgsilva
- How to send an email using the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (using MVVM) by saramgsilva
- The class ReverseGeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8. by Carmelo La Monica
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your WPF contribution here:
- How to Get the Default Template of a Control in XAML? by Manuel Meyer
- WPF DynamicResource ObservableCollection by Andy O'Neill
- WPF DataGridComboBoxColumn and ComboBox in Datagrid by Andy O'Neill
- Communicating between classes ( and solving MVVM issues ) by Andy O'Neill
- WPF: Adding Right-Aligned Row Numbers To a DataGridRowHeader by Magnus (MM8)
Windows Server
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:
- How to join UNIX / Linux to Active Directory by Mr X
- How to measure the response time of your Domain Controllers when running an LDAP query by Mr X
- How to downgrade domain and forest functional level(windows 2012R2/2012/2008R2) by Darshana Jayathilake
- Server 2012/2012 R2 Available CPL Commands by Darshana Jayathilake
Wiki and Portals
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- Dynamics AX Portal by Muhammad Ehsan
- Office 365 Portal by Durval Ramos
Miscellaneous
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:
- Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
- How to add a Powershell GUI event handler by Brian Nadjiwon
- How to add a Powershell GUI event handler with parameters by Brian Nadjiwon
- Creating framework documentation with Ghostdoc by saramgsilva
- PowerShell Scripting: Using and querying Datasets directly in PowerShell by Ike Ugochuku
- Understanding PowerShell Automatic and Preference Variables by Brian Nadjiwon