Peter Laker will be back later with the list of winners, but we have quite a few contributions for June for the judges to go through! See TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013.

Which articles do you think the judges should pick? Leave a comment below!

BizTalk

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this BizTalk forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• BizTalk: Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task By Ron Phillips
• Complex FlatFile Conversion using Biztalk schema and Map  By Mohit Gupta
• Implementation of Routing slip pattern using ESB Toolkit 2.1 and BizTalk Server By Abhijit Mahato
• XSLT Muenchian grouping - Biztalk Complex transformation By Mohit Gupta

New category for June! BizTalk contributors came in late, but we have three different contributors this month with a solid showing!

SharePoint 2010

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this SharePoint General forum thread and in this SharePoint Development forum thread.

Here are the June contributions:

• New! SharePoint 2013: Branding Solutions as an App! Showcase your solutions now! By Sunny Dasgupta
• SEO Friendly SharePoint Sites/Pages By Sunny Dasgupta
• Uploading (and Resizing) Images to a SharePoint Picture Library via a Webpart By Matthew Yarlett
• What's New for Developers in Word Automation Services 2013 By Usama Wahab Khan
• Deploy Lookup as a Site Column By Stefan Bauer
• Showing display name of selected item of a dropdown in forms library in InfoPath 2010 By Ashish Gupta
• Step by step configuring document archival in SharePoint 2010 By Ashish Gupta
• SharePoint 2010: Resolve Design Changes without Design Skills and authentication Problem with WireShark By Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2010: How does Web Analytics works under By Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2010: Reminder to myself: Automatic Password Change By Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2010: User Profile Synchronization Proxy in DMZ zone with One Way Trust By Gokan Ozcifci   
• How to achieve Excel document repository with multiple checkout using SharePoint 2010/2013, Windows 8 and Server 2012 By Libin.NET
• What happens internally when a web application is created in SharePoint By Mohammad Nizamuddin
• How to bypass the Firewall, TMG and Proxy during a content crawl in SharePoint Publishing Farm By Gokan Ozcifci
• Best Practices - Checking SharePoint list field NULL value in code By Mohammad Nizamuddin
• Freeze Header Row of SharePoint List View By Mohammad Nizamuddin
• SharePoint 2010: What if the domain NetBIOS name is different than the FQDN of the domain with User Profile By Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2010: How to maintain InfoPath Form Changes or Versions By Suresh C
• SharePoint : Bread Crumb for List/Library View Web Part in Wiki Page By Joydeep K.
• Using the KeywordQuery class to search SharePoint content By Matthew Yarlett

SharePoint takes the cake this month for the most contributions! Matthew Yarlett (our winner from June) is going to try to get a second medal in a row (two contributions this month), but the competition is steep! We also have two contributions from Sunny and Ashish, 3 from Mohammad, and 6 from our fellow Wiki Ninja author (and SharePoint Europe award winner), Gokan Ozcifci! That's some steep competition!

Small Basic

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this Small Basic forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• Small Basic: Did You Know?  By Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: How to Convert Multi-Line Text into Array of Lines  By Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: IDE Colors  By Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: How to Use Trigonometric Functions  By Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: How to Draw Triangle  By Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: How to Make a Turtle Maze Game  By Nonki Takahashi
• A Development Map for Becoming a Good Programmer using Small Basic and MSDN By Jibba Jabba

Small Basic is another new category this month. Nonki almost dominated with 6 contributions (tied with Gokan), but then Jibba Jabba jumped in to give Nonki a little competition!  

SQL Server Analysis Services

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this SSAS forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• Aggregations in SSAS By Yogish Bhat
• MOD Function in MDX By Yogish Bhat

It looks like Yogish is the contributor to this new category and will take the gold. But the judges will still need to decide which article.

SQL Server Integration Services

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this SSIS forum thread.
No June contributions:

• none

So unfortunately, the community doesn't seem interested in this competition. We'll need to retire this category for July (unless an SSIS expert commits to authoring an article in July).

SQL Server Reporting Services/Power View

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this SSRS forum thread.
Here are the contributions:

• Adding Links in SSRS Reports  By Tim Pacl
• Concatenating Data Column Values Into a Single String  By Tim Pacl
• Counting Occurrences in a Concatenated String  By Tim Pacl  
• Preset Date Parameters  By Tim Pacl
• Setting Subreport Visibility From User Input  By Tim Pacl
• Sorting Elements of a Concatenated String  By Tim Pacl

SSRS is a new category for June. It looks like Tim is going to run the table for June with a lot of articles for the judges to pick from! Tim also contributed 6 articles for June (the same number as Gokan and Nonki).

Transact-SQL

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this T-SQL forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• EOMONTH() Function Usage in SQL Server 2012 and On By Kalman Toth
• SET ANSI_PADDING Setting and Its Importance  By Naomi N
• Generate XML with Same Node Names using FOR XML PATH By SathyanarrayananS
• T-SQL: Remove Leading and Trailing Zeros By SathyanarrayananS
• SQL Server Result Set In An HTML Email By  Johnny Bell Jnr
• Fixing Missing Data Based on Prior Row Information By Naomi N 
• T-SQL: RIGHT, LEFT, SUBSTRING and CHARINDEX Functions By Johnny Bell Jnr
• T-SQL: Group by Time Interval By Naomi N 

• How SQL Server Determines Type of the Constant By Naomi N

Naomi, our gold medal winner for June (with an impressive tie with two articles in first place), is back with four more contributions! But she has some solid competition with Kalman, Sathyanarrayanan (2 articles), and Johnny Bell (2 articles)!

Visual Basic

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this Visual Basic forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net By Reed Kimble
• Bitmap.Lockbits De-Mystified .Net By Paul Ishak

Our VB winner for May, Reed Kimble, looks to win the gold two months in a row! But one of our competitors is guaranteed the silver! =^)

Visual C#

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this Visual C# forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• Named Pipes IO for Inter-process Communication By Dan Randolph

C# was the most-contributed-to category in May (with 8 contributions). But for June, Dan jumps in to (likely) win the competition! Well played, Dan! 

Windows Phone

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this Windows Phone Development forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• How to Launch Windows Phone 8 Emulator without using Visual Studio 2012? By isenthil
• Maps and clusters By Tiziano Cacioppolini 
• How to use Sqlite with a Windows Phone 8 app By Ken Tucker
• Text To Speech in Windows Phone 8 By Lohith Goudagere

Isenthil, our winner for May, has his competition cut out for him, going against Tiziano, Ken, and Lohith! 

Windows Store Apps

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this Windows Store app development forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• Building an App using the DataviewModel from external XML By Sachin S
• Insert ComboBox item separator which is filled through Data Binding By Sachin S
• Basic ColorPicker Control inside Settings Pane By  Sachin S

Sachin dominates in this new category and looks to get his second gold medal (the first was for C# in May)! We'll need to decide if we want to remove the category for July and ask the contributors to post in C# or VB again (like we did in May). What do you think? 

WPF

The TechNet Guru June competition is announced in this WPF forum thread.
Here are the June contributions:

• Cascading ComboBoxes in WPF using MVVM By Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))
• Set Brush for ScrollViewer Thumb By Gaurav Khanna
• WPF: How to manage available/selected lists. Simple examples. MVVM and Code behind By Peter Laker (XAML guy)
• WPF: TreeView SelectedItem TwoWay MVVM (plus expand to selected and close all others) By Peter Laker (XAML guy)
• Event handling in an MVVM WPF application By Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))          

And finally, some WPF contributors jumped in toward the end of the month! I encouraged XAML guy to enter this competition (even though the competition is his idea). We'll get others to judge the contributions for this category. There's some nice choices that the judges will need to pick from! 

Overall

The Category with the most contributions:

1. SharePoint 2010 - 20
2. Transact-SQL - 9
3. Small Basic - 7

The individuals with the most contributions (6 each):

• Tim Pacl - SSRS
• Nonki Takahashi - Small Basic
• Gokan Ozcifci - SharePoint

So a hearty thank you goes out to all the contributors! You're helping make it far easier for people to find your fantastic content that you (likely) originally came up with while helping people in the forums! Thank you to all and good luck in the competition!

And to the readers, what do you think?  Which articles do you think the judges should pick? Leave a comment below!

Wiki, oh dear wiki, thou art oh so sticky.

   - Ninja Ed

Congratulations to Sachin S, our C# Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013.

Sachin S took the gold, with this contribution:

Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript) 

Here are our three winners for May:

Visual C# Technical Guru - May 2013

Here are excerpts from the article:

Description

It implements the component wrapper over Win32 SpellChecker library. A wrapper that it can be easily used by caller of Windows Store App irrespective of Application Language and without worrying about C++ and COM intricacies.

 
Spell checking client sample (C++) 
 

Also it needs to have spell checker provider installed. See the below link for more details

Spell checking provider sample

Internals

The functionality to check spellings is exposed by the ISpellCheckerFactory and ISpellChecker interface.

ISpellCheckerFactory : public IUnknown
    {
    public:
        virtual /* [propget] */ HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE get_SupportedLanguages( 
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt IEnumString **value) = 0;
        
        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IsSupported( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__out BOOL *value) = 0;
        
        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE CreateSpellChecker( 
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in LPCWSTR languageTag,
            /* [retval][out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt ISpellChecker **value) = 0;
        
    };

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Read the entire article here:

Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript)

Thanks again to Sachin S for a great contribution! You can read about all the May winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - May 2013

See the June contributions here: TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013

Come on in, the Wiki is fantasmic!

   - Ninja Ed

Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Fri-Sat)

Firstly, the usual weekly leader board snapshot...

Ed taking top spot for a second week! Hello Abhishek.Sur, leading most new articles for the last month!

As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Ed Price - MSFT is the top dog again, with 169 revisions over 60 articles!

Richard Mueller remains in second, with  113 revisions over 96 articles!

Kris Bash arrives to the leader board in third, with 89 revisions over 17 articles.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Slightly different this week from above:

#1 Richard Mueller with 96 articles!

#2 Ed Price - MSFT with 60 articles!

#3 Fernando Lugão Veltem  with 42 articles.

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

The article to have the most change this week was a new contribution called Hybrid IT Infrastructure Design Considerations for Enterprise IT by Thomas W Shinder - MSFT. This is an excellent and detailed introduction to the world of cloud computing. In fact I spent so long reading through the articles indexed here that I was too tired last night to finish this blog, sorry about that :/

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is another new arrival, SCOM 2012: UNIX/Linux Authoring Library MP Reference - Unit Monitor Types by Kris Bash. This is one of a series of new articles Kris has added this week, detailing how to integrate common UNIX and Linux monitoring scenarios for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, indexed here. Great work Kris!

Most Revised Article Award   Article with the most revisions in a week

This week's most fiddled with article is as above, Hybrid IT Infrastructure Design Considerations for Enterprise IT by Thomas W Shinder - MSFT. These sensational new "cloud" arrivals had me riveted to my seat for several hours last night. Deeply love this work, thank you to everyone involved.

As it was previously mentioned, I'll also highlight second most fiddled with: Compatible Tape Libraries for System Center 2012 DPM by Rayne Wiselman [MSFT], more System Center documentation, gratefully received. If any of you follow trends, System Center really seems to be one we need to stay up with.

Smallest Significant Edit Award   Size isn't everything! Every edit counts.

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was to Wiki: How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki by tonysoper_MSFT. Our old friend yottun8 simply corrected a few typos, but this is a valuable job that shows people really care, and we thank you yottun8 for your continued support.

Thanks again for another VERY busy week at TechNet Wiki

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Congratulations to Reed Kimble, our VB Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013.

About Reed: [Adult Swim] fan, EQII player, and has broad interests in computers, electronics, and programming. Enjoys outdoors in forest, mountain, and/or secluded lake settings. Fascinated by social and spiritual aspects of humanity.

Reed won with this fantastic contribution:

How to Create Video Games in VB.Net (Windows Forms)

Here are our three winners:

Visual Basic Technical Guru - May 2013

Here is an excerpt from the article:

How to Create Video Games in VB.Net (Windows Forms)

I realize that this is a very popular subject, especially amongst budding developers. The drive to create games may be the reason you started working with Visual Basic in the first place. After stepping through a few samples and getting the hang of working with user controls on a form, it may be very tempting to start to throw some PictureBoxes and a Timer on a Form and start to implement some game logic. Seems easy enough, right?

To some extent, this is a true statement. You could start to do this and it would be easy enough… at first. But when you begin to try to calculate collision and animate or rotate your “sprites”, you may start to run into some difficulty. And attempts to circumvent the problems often lead to even worse issues. This can cause an endless spiral of misery which could leave you thinking VB just isn’t meant to make games! ;)

The initial problem that most people face is the desire to use a PictureBox (or any other control) as the logical “Sprite” container for the elements in the game. It makes sense since the control appears to provide a lot of the required functionality already and it’s easy to extend it with more properties as needed.

... 

Read the entire article here:

How to Create Video Games in VB.Net (Windows Forms)

Thanks again to Reed Kimble for a great contribution! You can read about all the May winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - May 2013

Are you ready for a new group of winners for June! We're almost there! See all the June contributors here: TechNet Guru June Roundup & Commentary

Wiki while you work! (or whilst on break)

   - Ninja Ed

Hello Community, Luiz Henrique Lima Campos  here today to update you on the latest news in the TechNet Wiki international community from Brazil.

Today I congratulate three major community contributors Wiki in Brazil, which together are the sum of 351 articles.

They are...

Marcelo Strippoli

198 - Articles

Hezequias Vasconcelos

106 – Articles

Vinicius Mozart

47 – Articles

Great work!

Congratulations for all your work on the wiki community.

 You are collaborators featured here on Wiki.

Big hugs go to the TechNet Wiki community, keep up the contribution, have a great Friday and don’t forget to tweet #TNWIKI and follow us:

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