TechNet Guru June Roundup & Commentary

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

 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 inthis 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 2013By 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 codeBy Mohammad Nizamuddin
• Freeze Header Row of SharePoint List ViewByMohammad 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 EmailBy  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-SQ: Group by Time Interval By Naomi N 

Naomi, our gold medal winner for June (with an impressive tie with two articles in first place), is back with two 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 8By 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 - 8
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!

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