Let's see how many articles we had completed in August...
BizTalk
- Grouping and Debatching/Splitting Inbound Messages(TypedPolled) from WCF-SQL Adapter : BizTalk 2010by 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
- 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
We had a record-breaking 25 articles from the BizTalk community. That included 16 articles from Maheshkumar, 7 articles from Steef-Jan, and one each from Tord and Lex. Thanks to all the contributors!
Steef-Jan is the defending champion with 2 medals... a gold and a silver from July. Lex has 1 medal, a Bronze from July. Tord and Maheshkumar are looking for their first medals! Good luck to all!
Forefront Identity Manager
Just one article from the FIM community this month. Thanks to Ike for the contribution!
Ike has two medals... a gold and silver from July.
SharePoint 2010 / 2013
- 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
The SharePoint community brought us 8 articles for August, including 3 articles from Rahul, 2 from Matthew, and one each from Mohammad, Daniel, and Aurelien!
Matthew is the reigning champion, with an impressive 3 gold medals! Rahul has one medal... a bronze from July!
Small Basic
Thanks to Nonki for the one article! It's a great article, but we've got to help light a fire to encourage the Small Basic community to contribute more!
Nonki has 3 medals... 2 gold and 1 bronze!
SQL Server Database Engine
Same thing for SSDE. Thanks to Uwe for this contribution!
Uwe has one medal, a silver from July!
SQL Server Reporting Services, Power View & SQL Server Integration Services
- SSRS: Multiple Ways to Split a String into Multiple Linesby 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.
The SSRS and SSIS communities had 9 articles in August, thanks to 8 from Sathya and one from Rajkumar! Thanks to both of you for these great contributions.
Sathya has 1 gold medal (the reigning champ).
Transact-SQL
- 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.
For T-SQL, we had 11 articles, with 3 from Sathya, 2 each from Sugumar, Naomi, and Saeid, and then 1 each from Surendra and Shanky. Thanks to all the contributors.
Naomi has an astonishing 7 medals, including 4 gold medals (she tied for gold with herself in May), 2 silvers, and 1 bronze. Shanky won a silver in July for the SSRS/SSIS category!
Visual Basic
- 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.
There were 5 articles for VB in August, including 3 articles from Paul Ishak, and 1 each from Reed and .paul. Great job!
Reed is the reigning champ with 3 gold medals! Paul Ishak has 4 medals... 3 silver and 1 bronze!
Visual C#
- 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.
C# includes 12 articles... 4 from Juliya, 3 from Paul Ishak (his second category), 2 from Chilberto, and 1 each from Mohammad (his second category), Isham, and Deeptendra! Thank you to the C# community!
Jaliya ran the table in this category in July with 3 medals (gold, silver, bronze) and another 2 (silver, bronze) in the Windows Store Apps category!
Windows Phone
Just one contribution from Chilberto (his second category).
Windows Store Apps
Also one from Sachin!
Sachin has 4 medals... 1 gold from C# in May, and 1 gold, silver, and bronze from Win Store Apps in June!
WPF
- Deploy Silverlight Application to Server/ IIS siteby 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
And finally we have 4 articles from the WPF community! 1 each from Himanshu, Magnus, XAML Guy, and Guarav!
Gurav has 1 gold from June and 1 bronze from July. Magnus has 1 gold from July and 1 bronze from June. XAML Guy has 2 silvers. These three are at it again for the third month in a row!
Thanks again to these 32 contributors who provided us with 78 great articles!
Please join me in thanking the Microsoft communities for these contributions!
- Ninja Ed