Introduction

Contributions for August are now closed. If you wish to compete for September,  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 August, 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 August 2013 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

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 2013.

BizTalk

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

• Grouping and Debatching/Splitting Inbound Messages(TypedPolled) from WCF-SQL Adapter : BizTalk 2010 by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Server: Importing Certificates by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server: Tracking dependencies between artifacts by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server: WCF-SQL Adapter Table Operations by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server: Visio Stencils by Lex Hegt
• BizTalk and SSL Transport by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server 2013: Consuming a RESTFul Endpoint using WCF-WebHttp by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Server 2013: IAAS Provisioning a Virtual Machine by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server 2013: Test BizTalk artifacts with Visual Studio 2012 by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server Installation and Configuration Checklist By Tord Glad Nordahl
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Schema by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Map by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Pipeline by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Adapter by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Orchestration by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - BizTalk Application by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Helper Class  by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - EDI by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - BizTalk Database  by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Functoid  by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Visual Studio by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - XSLT by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Business Activity Monitoring by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - Business Rule Engine by Maheshkumar S Tiwari

Forefront Identity Manager

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

• FIM 2010 R2: Creating a Custom Metaverse Object Deletion Rule using C# by Ike Ugochuku

SharePoint 2010 / 2013

The TechNet Guru August 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:

• SharePoint Performance Best Practices – Limit SQL Server Memory Allocation by Mohammad Nizamuddin
• SharePoint 2013: How to Integrate Yammer with SharePoint for Social Feature by Rahul Shinde
• SharePoint: Listing and Deleting SPListItemVersions Using PowerShell by Matthew Yarlett
• InfoPath 2010 embedded form on SharePoint 2013 by Daniel Christian
• SharePoint: Querying Active Directory from a Farm Based Solution using C#.Net by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint 2010 How To : Change lookup hyperlink to open it in a same window by Aurélien Prévot
• SharePoint 2013: Social Features, Community Site by Rahul Shinde
• SharePoint 2013: How to open list forms in dialog box instead of navigating to another page by Rahul Shinde

Small Basic

The TechNet Guru August 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: Parser Generator by Nonki Takahashi

SQL Server Analysis Services, PowerPivot

The TechNet Guru August 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:

• Replace me

SQL Server Database Engine

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

• Dropping a clustered index will not reorganize the HEAP by Uwe Ricken

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

The TechNet Guru August 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:

• SSRS: Multiple Ways to Split a String into Multiple Lines by SathyanarrayananS *
• SSIS - Move Folder from one Drive to Another Drive Using File System Task by SathyanarrayananS *
• SSIS - How to Add Missing Control Flow Items / Data Flow Items to the SSIS Toolbox by SathyanarrayananS *
• SSIS - Flat File Source - Datetime Column Format - Issue & Solution by Rajkumar5055
• SSRS - How to repeat headers for each group  by SathyanarrayananS
• SSRS: How to Group Same Row Data with One Column Having Varying Data  by SathyanarrayananS 
• SSRS - How to set Column Visibility property for many columns based on Parameter value  by  SathyanarrayananS 
• SSRS - How to display multiple columns (header and value) horizontally stacked in one row cell  by SathyanarrayananS 
• SSRS: How to Repeat Headers on Each Page by SathyanarrayananS 

* Although these articles were written in July, they were not added to the July competition in time, and so the articles will compete in August.

Transact-SQL

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

• T-SQL Script to Find the Names of the Stored Procedures that Used Dynamic SQL by SathyanarrayananS *
• SQL Server 2008 - Group By with Wings by Sugumar Pannerselvam
• How to store and analyse different language data in the same database by Surendra Nath GM
• How to check the syntax of dynamic SQL before execution by  SathyanarrayananS
• How to compare two tables definition / metadata in different databases  by  SathyanarrayananS
• Understanding NOLOCK query hint by Shanky_621
• Sql Server 2008 - MERGE (Unity is strength - Merge your DDL and DML to strengthen your performance by  Sugumar Pannerselvam
• T-SQL: Applying APPLY Operator by Naomi N
• T-SQL: How to Find Rows with Bad Characters by Naomi N
• Custom Sort in Acyclic Digraph by Saeid Hasani
• Sort Letters in a Phrase using T-SQL by Saeid Hasani

* Although this article was written in July, it was not added to the July competition in time, and so the article will compete in August.

Visual Basic

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

• Workaround - Visual Basic/C# WebBrowser DBLClick Word by Paul Ishak
• Convert System.Decimal to and from Byte Arrays (VB & C#) by Paul Ishak
• Become More Productive by Making Custom Code Generation Tools(VB & C#) by Paul Ishak
• How to Get the Textual Representation of a Number (Convert Number to Words) in VB.Net by Reed Kimble
• searchableComboBox Control by .paul.

Visual C#

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

• Business Entities to Azure Storage Entities using Automapper * by Chilberto
• C# PPT to PDF-Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint. ApplicationClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint. _Application By Mohammad Nizamuddin
• Progress of a Task in C# by Jaliya Udagedara
• Workaround - Visual Basic/C# WebBrowser DBLClick Word by Paul Ishak
• Convert System.Decimal to and from Byte Arrays (VB & C#) by Paul Ishak
• Become More Productive by Making Custom Code Generation Tools(VB & C#) by Paul Ishak
• Introduction to WCF Data Services by Jaliya Udagedara
• WCF Data Services with Entity Framework Provider by Jaliya Udagedara
• WCF Data Services with Reflection Provider by Jaliya Udagedara
• Serializing WCF contract with object property by Chilberto
• Avoid “File system redirection” in Visual Studio 2012 by Isham Mohamed
• C#: What are Extension Methods in .NET by Deeptendra

* Although this article was written in July, it was not added to the July competition in time, and so the article will compete in August.

Windows Phone

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

• Azure Mobile Services Custom API - Exploring Server Side Capability by Chilberto

Windows Store Apps

The TechNet Guru August 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:

• Custom styling the alternate rows inside ListView/GridView by Sachin S

WPF

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

• Deploy Silverlight Application to Server/ IIS site by Himanshu12221
• Validating data in WPF 4.5 using the INotifyErrorDataError interface by Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))
• Best ComboBox Tutorial Ever by XAML guy
• Multiple Columns in WPF ListBox by Gaurav Khanna

See Also

•  TechNet Guru Contributions