Introduction

Contributions for July are now closed. If you wish to compete for August, please post your links 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 July, 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 July 2013 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before July. 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 JULY) 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 July in the Sections Below...

NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in July 2013.

BizTalk

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this BizTalk forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:

• Loop for a Specific Number of Times using Scripting Functiod in BizTalk Map by SAAkhlaq 
• BizTalk Server 2013: Sign and verifying a message by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server 2013: Encrypting and decrypting a message by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• Provisioning BizTalk Services using the Windows Azure Management Portal by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Message Based Routing: why is my file not transfered to the location of the Send Port by Lex Hegt

Forefront Identity Manager

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this FIM forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your FIM contribution here:

• FIM 2010 R2: HowTo - Make a connection to Oracle Database 11g by Ike Ugochuku
• FIM 2010 R2: HowTo - Bulk import of attributes flow rules into Synchronization Rule in the Portal by Ike Ugochuku

SharePoint 2010 / 2013

The TechNet Guru July 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:

• Get "Modified" and "Modified By" information from a view in a list or library by Stefan Bauer
• Viewing, sorting and filtering SharePoint User Profiles using PowerShell by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint 2013 Online: Unable to upload multiple documents using Windows Explorer by Ashish Gupta
• SharePoint 2013: How to get Following and Followers of user using JSOM or JavaScript  by Rahul A Shinde  
• Latest Windows Security Update in July 2013 Breaks the SharePoint XSLT System Web Part Pages by Julie Boudro
• Change CSS file in asp.net web application based on resolution of client machine by Mohammad Nizamuddin
• SharePoint 2010 - When there is no powershell cmdlet or it is internal by Jesper Arnecke
• An Example of Using Write-Progress in a Long Running SharePoint PowerShell Script. by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint 2010 and 2013: How to Export Excel sheet to SharePoint List by Rahul A Shinde
• How to Break SharePoint 2013 Document Library Permissions Inheritance by Daniel Christian 
• Importing Data from a SQL Database into a SharePoint list by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint 2010: Importing Data from an Excel File into a SharePoint List Using PowerShell by Matthew Yarlett

Small Basic

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Small Basic forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Small Basic contribution here:

• Small Basic: Shapes Editor by Nonki Takahashi 

SQL Server Analysis Services, PowerPivot

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this SSAS forum thread and in this PowerPivot forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SSAS contribution here:

• Custom Calculations for Invoice & Returns using PowerPivot DAX formula by Paras Doshi
• Currency Conversion in SSAS 2012 (Multidimensional & Tabular) by Christian Wade
• SSAS Tabular Models: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Beautiful by Paul Turley
• We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced by Paul Turley

SQL Server Database Engine

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Database Engine forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Database Engine contribution here:

• Shrink SQL Database during Restore by Ronen Ariely
• SQL VDI Backups fail with Error 9001 by Rajukiran L
• SQL Server: No Fragmentation in HEAP from INSERT / UPDATE by Uwe Ricken
• How to check when index rebuild, update statistics last happened on SQL Server by Mohammad Nizamuddin

SQL Server Reporting Services, Power View, & SQL Server Integration Services

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this SSRS forum thread and in this SSIS forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SSRS or Power View contribution here:
 

• How to Transfer Records from SQL Server to Postgres by Shanky_621 
• SSRS - Multi Font Color / Multi Font Size within Single Field / Textbox by SathyanarrayananS
  

Transact-SQL

 The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this T-SQL forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your TSQL contribution here:

• T-SQL: Gaps and Islands Problem by Naomi N
• T-SQL: FIFO Inventory Problem - Cost of Goods Sold by Naomi N

Visual Basic

 The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Visual Basic forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your VB contribution here:

• Knife Thrower! by Paul Ishak 
• Binary and Back by The Thinker
• How to Handle a Huge Collection of Strings in VB.Net by Reed Kimble
• Evaluating Expressions by Paul Ishak 
• Drive Searcher by Paul Ishak 

Visual C#

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Visual C# forum thread. Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your C# contribution here:

• Multithreading Dictionary - A sample project about multithreading Dictionary objects
• Connecting to SSAS Cube using Silverlight by Jaliya Udagedara
• Bing Maps for Silverlight - Customized Tooltip for Pushpins by Jaliya Udagedara
• Set WCF Service Authentication to Use a Custom Username & Password over HTTP by Jaliya Udagedara
• C#: Ensure User only Runs One Copy of a Program by Karl Mitschke
• What happens when two interfaces have same method signature and you have to implement both interfaces in one class by Mohammad Nizamuddin

    

Windows Phone

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Windows Phone Development forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Windows Phone contribution here:

• Location API in Windows Phone 8 by  Senthil Kumar (isenthil)
• How to use Sqlite with a Windows Phone 8 app by Ken Tucker    (see note below)
• Text To Speech in Windows Phone 8 by Lohith Goudagere     (see note below)
• Windows Phone 8 Emulator Compatibility Issues on Windows 8.1 Preview? by Senthil Kumar (isenthil)

  
Ken and Lohith's June contributions have been re-included in July's nominations because they were last minute entries that missed inclusion into our voting tool. Sorry for the confusion.

Windows Store Apps

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this Windows Store app development forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Store App contribution here:

• Tasks Window in Visual Studio 2013 Preview by Jaliya Udagedara
• Introduction to IndexedDB  by Jaliya Udagedara
• Introduction to HTML 5 Web Storage  by Jaliya Udagedara
• Windows Store App with a SQLite Database  by Jaliya Udagedara
• Binding an item inside ItemsControl's DataTemplate to the property on Page DataContext by Sachin S
• Create an Analog Clock in a Windows Store Application by Ken Tucker
• WebView - Dynamic Html Page with Images (MVVM) by Sachin S
• Nesting, ListView inside ListView DataTemplate (Or TreeView representation) by Sachin S
• Display Images in GridView/ListView using DataBinding by Sachin S

WPF

The TechNet Guru July competition is announced in this WPF forum thread.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your WPF contribution here:

• Editable Button in WPF by Gaurav Khanna
• WPF/MVVM: Binding the IsChecked property of a CheckBox to several other CheckBoxes  by Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))
• WPF Data, Item and Control Templates - Minimum Code, Maximum Awesomeness by XAML guy (Peter Laker)

 
We are still deliberating which categories to remove or add. For July, we're adding FIM and SQL Server Database Engine. We're combining SSIS in with SSRS (low interest in both; worth a try for a month). Leave a comment with more suggestions!

See Also

•  TechNet Guru Contributions