The results for August's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/09/11/technet-guru-awards-august-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for July! We will be interviewing and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
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Below is a copy of the August winners. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Tord Glad Nordahl | BizTalk Server Installation and Configuration Checklist | Tord Glad Nordahl: "My own article, hard to defend why I want this to win (after all I wrote it), even though I think this is great info, and important to share to keep high standards for environments" Mandi Ohlinger: "Holy schmoly do I love this topic! This is great list of what to do before, during, and after a BizTalk installation. " Ed Price: "By far the best topic with the most useful information! This is truly a resource that people can come back to time and time again. And a solid introduction!" |
| Maheshkumar S Tiwari | Grouping and Debatching/Splitting Inbound Messages(TypedPolled) from WCF-SQL Adapter : BizTalk 2010 | Ed Price: "Maheshkumar gave us a record-breaking 16 Guru articles this month, and this one shows great expertise in the code snippets, steps, and diagrams!" Mandi Ohlinger: "Great example of debatching. Love the link to the blog post." Tord Glad Nordahl: "Great article with good explaination" |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server: Importing Certificates | Ed Price: "Steef-Jan is a master at writing fantastic articles with an introduction that clearly explain the topic, vivid images, and command snippets. With 7 amazing articles from Steef-Jan this month, this one takes
the cake!" Tord Glad Nordahl: "Great to know when importing certificated." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Daniel Christian | InfoPath 2010 embedded form on SharePoint 2013 | Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice detailed article!" Peter Laker: "Awesome article. Great subject, lots of detail, with images and videos. " Ed Price: "This article keeps on giving with a video, steps, images, information, and more! It could use a TOC and Headers to break it up more. Fantastic article with a lot of depth!" ML: "It is great to have video presented" |
| Matthew Yarlett | SharePoint: Listing and Deleting SPListItemVersions Using PowerShell | TVG: "Very useful script! Use it to identify the libraries in your site collection where versioning best practices are not enforced." ML: "resolve the requirement which is frequently asked by cunstomers" Ed Price: "Very clear article with a great introduction, code snippets, and images. The headers are in place, so I think I'll add a TOC now. Great article!" Jinchun Chen: "Nice article." |
| Rahul Shinde | SharePoint 2013: How to Integrate Yammer with SharePoint for Social Feature | Ed Price: "Great subject and good interaction in the comments. After Naomi suggested an introduction on what Yammer is, Rahul added it in! That's what the Wiki is all about!!" TVG: "Yammer, the future of Social for SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises. Organizations that have both services supporting their businesses probably cannot wait to discover the potential of both services combined!" Peter Laker: "Brilliant article. Nice topic and plenty of detail." |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Parser Generator | Peter Laker: "There can only be one...!" Ed Price: "Wow. Those diagrams leave me speechless. One article, and it's amazing! Fantastic job!" RZ: "It's very nicely done. Beautiful diagram. It is really helpful for new comers to programming." |
| SQL Server Reporting Services, Power View & SQL Server Integration Services Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Rajkumar5055 | SSIS - Flat File Source - Datetime Column Format - Issue & Solution | Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections. Good explanations and use of images!" |
| SathyanarrayananS | SSRS - How to set Column Visibility property for many columns based on Parameter value | Ed Price: "Very interesting topic! Good explanation and use of code and images! Could benefit from a TOC and Headers to break up the sections. Great article!" |
| SathyanarrayananS | SSRS: Multiple Ways to Split a String into Multiple Lines | Jinchun Chen: "Nice." |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Saeid Hasani | Sort Letters in a Phrase using T-SQL | Ed Price: "Fantastic formatting, very clear, and some good comment interactions! Great job!" Richard Mueller: "Very interesting with a good example. Great to list the limitations." Jinchun Chen: "Cool. Years ago, I was asked the same question. This script can apply to many real situation." Samuel Lester: "Sorting is always a great CS topic, thanks for this great content. I would love to see alternate methods for sorting, pros/cons (as you've done), performance discussion, etc. for a great learning opportunity. Nice job!" |
| Naomi N | T-SQL: Applying APPLY Operator | Richard Mueller: "Well organized article with a good example and explanation of the code. And I liked the pun." Samuel Lester: "Outstanding format, explanation, & references (calendar table, forum post, EOMONTH() function, etc). Great job solving the question with OUTER APPLY, then referencing the LAG/LEAD functions for SQL Server 2012. Technical and very well written! Great work Naomi, one the best overall from a technical and visual perspective!" Ed Price: "Naomi nails the formatting and explains every step, taking us on this journey. Great article amongst some fierce competition this month!" |
| Saeid Hasani | Custom Sort in Acyclic Digraph | Samuel Lester: "WOW! Very interesting topic! We don't often see a lot of graph/tree questions in the forums, but this topic brought out a lot of great discussion. Breadth-first vs. depth-first, inorder/preorder/postorder
traversal, etc. Great job adding advanced content and very strong write-up!" Richard Mueller: "Good explanation of terms, but they could be expanded." Ed Price: "A great article from Saeid on an important topic, and with good community interactions!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Reed Kimble | How to Get the Textual Representation of a Number (Convert Number to Words) in VB.Net | Peter Laker: "Superb article. Well presented and detailed." SB: "nice code example of a real world problem" Ed Price: "Great formatting, explanations, and code snippets!" Richard Mueller: "Very good ideas and well explained. This can be useful." Anthony D. Green: "This would make a great programming exercise for students." |
| Paul Ishak | Become More Productive by Making Custom Code Generation Tools (VB & C#) | Anthony D. Green: "Code generators are an essential tool in any programmers arsenal and this article shows why and how powerful they can be. I'd love to see another article using technologies such as T4 templates to generate
code." Ed Price: "Fantastic example and explanations! " Peter Laker: "Very nice copy-in of his popular article, thanks Paul!" Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concept. We could use explanation of the code." |
| .paul. | searchableComboBox Control | SB: "would find useful in many applicables." Ed Price: "Great tie in with the Code Gallery!" Peter Laker: "Great control, very useful, thanks Paul!" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Isham Mohamed | Avoid “File system redirection” in Visual Studio 2012 | Christian Lukito: "Good article to explain Windows 8.1 behaviour" CW: "This article calls out a problem you may encounter in C# and shell execution of things from the system directories. I thought it is well done and should help to unblock individuals." Ed Price: "Great explanation to a common issue!" |
| Jaliya Udagedara | Progress of a Task in C# | CW: "While not super interesting, this elevates a feature in a clean manner" Ed Price: "Very well formatted. Important information for learners!" |
| Chilberto | Business & Entities to Azure Storage Entities using Automapper | CW: "I have worked with Azure Storage entities before, but haven't ever used this automapper. I am not compelled to use it. I imagine it could be used to help separate my data entity from the object used in the code, but
I can't really gather this from this sample alone." Ed Price: "Good formatting with solid code snippets." |
| Windows Phone Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Chilberto | Azure Mobile Services Custom API - Exploring Server Side Capability | JS: "only 1" Ed Price: "Really important topic with great code snippets and solid explanations!" |
| Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Sachin S | Custom styling the alternate rows inside ListView/GridView | Ed Price: "Good topic and breakdown. It could benefit from more explanations and a breakdown of sections with a TOC. Thanks for the contribution!" |
| WPF Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Magnus (MM8) | Validating data in WPF 4.5 using the INotifyErrorDataError interface | Peter Laker: "Excellent overview of validation" Ed Price: "Important topic and great delivery and formatting!" |
| XAML guy | Best ComboBox Tutorial Ever | Ed Price: "Beautiful formatting, images, and code! Great introduction, conclusion, and breakdown of the different steps! Plus I love the topic of making great comboboxes!" Peter Laker: "My own submission for August. A favourite from MSDN" |
| Himanshu12221 | Deploy Silverlight Application to Server/ IIS site | Peter Laker: "Thanks for the contribution" Ed Price: "Great to see this how-to article that covers a simple way to deploy an app. Good topic! It could benefit from more explanations and examples." |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Ike Ugochuku | FIM 2010 R2: Creating a Custom Metaverse Object Deletion Rule using C# | Ed Price: "Great article with clear requirements and steps. As Naomi suggests in the comments, it could benefit from code formatting. Good job!" Peter Geelen: "Nice article, practical solution. Well designed." |
| SQL Server Database Engine Technical Guru - August 2013 |
| Uwe Ricken | Dropping a clustered index will not reorganize the HEAP | Peter Laker: "The one and only awesome entry for August!" Ed Price: "Good explanations and formatting with the TOC, code, and images!" Samuel Lester: "Uwe, thank you for the great depth and explanation! Technically and visually OUTSTANDING!" DRC: "The article is very informative, queries used are accurate to match the explanation provided." |
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?
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can produce a more useful, clever and better produced wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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