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Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
January's entries are now being judged, but below are December's mighty winners and contenders!
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Peter Lindgren | BizTalk: Create SSO Bindings Without Joining Active Directory (AD) Domain | SK: "Very good article" SW: "Pragmatic Approach in Development Environment" |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server : Call external code in an orchestration | SW: "Good explanation and demonstration when to use/call external code in an orchestration." SK: "Great work here" |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Wim Beck | FIM2010: Outbound System Scoping Filter Syntax | Søren Granfeldt: "The best" PG: "Nice solution, very helpful" |
| Jeff Ingalls | How to Use PowerShell to Create a CSV of FIM/MIM Metaverse Connections | PG: "Nice solution, well documented, very helpful" Søren Granfeldt: "Very interesting read" |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| XAML guy | IoT Suite - Under The Hood - Remote Monitoring | AS: "Very good article. Just made me play around with the stuff." JH: "Good explanation of the remote monitoring sample of the IoT Suite. More articles about the IoT Suite are more than appreciated." |
| Sajid Ali Khan | JumpStart into Big Data with HDInsight | JH: "Nice article to get started with HDInsight. Lots of easy to follow graphics." AS: "Nice post. But somehow I really wanted to jump start with Big Data without having to deal with Hadoop :)" |
| Ken Cenerelli | Azure Infographics and Visio Templates | AN: "Just listing infographics does not add any value for the users. One can just stop by: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/infographics/ and review / download all" JH: "Good collection of the infographics available for Azure." |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Ken Cenerelli | Command Prompt improvements in Windows 10 | Richard Mueller: "Very interesting and useful information. Well written and explained." |
| SYEDSHANU | ASP.Net Web Photo Editing Tool Using HTML 5 | Richard Mueller: "Lots of well commented code. Good images. Good use of Wiki guidelines. We could use an "Other Resources" section." |
| Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja | Visual Studio Community for Java Developers | Richard Mueller: "Good images. We could use links and references." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Danish Islam | SharePoint: Filter Dropdown values on List InfoPath form based on Current User | Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines. Great images. The "See Also" is good, but because the links are not Wikis, it should be "Other Resources"." |
| Jesper Arnecke | SharePoint 2013 - Workflow Manager – Scripted Installation | Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. References are good, but we could use a "See Also" section." |
| Danish Islam | SharePoint: Hiding or Ordering Fields on Default List Forms | Richard Mueller: "Great use of Wiki guidelines. We can use some references." |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| SYEDSHANU | Microsoft Small Basic: Painting Tool Using Graphics Window | RZ: "This is very nicely done! Fantastic tool for painting and illustrating the drawing capabilities of SmallBasic" |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Small Basic Sample: Leap Year Checker | RZ: "Leap year calculation is always interesting -- the rules are always just a bit more complicated than you expect :)" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Greg Deckler (Quick Solutions) | Merge Query with M | PT: "Greg, nice tip. It's good to see how simple M script techniques like this can supercede the out-of-the-box script generated by the UI tool. I'll use this often." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Ronen Ariely | SQLCLR: Percentage User-Defined Aggregate Functions | Durval Ramos: "This article is interesting, but needs more details to demonstrate how to create and use an assembly .Net on SQL Server" |
| System Center Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| C Sharp Conner | Solution - Correctly restoring Data Warehouse and Registering to SCSM when Cube Process Jobs have gone Bad | AB: "Nice solution" Nicolas Bonnet: "Thank you for posting this C Sharp Corner :)" |
| Adin Ermie | Service Manager 2012 R2 Installation Fails To Identify SQL Server Instance, and Throws ‘Access Denied’ Error | Nicolas Bonnet: "Nice tip Adin, trhanks" AB: "Useful read!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Naomi N | T-SQL: Finding Difference in Columns in the Table | Durval Ramos: "This article provides an useful solution to compare values. A very well written and good article that have "Conclusion" to the reader" Richard Mueller: "Great article. Good use of Wiki guidelines and good code examples." Samuel Lester: "Outstanding solution! Thanks again for the great depth of your submissions! Job well done!" |
| Natig Gurbanov | How to find incorrect datetime data from "Char" format column | Durval Ramos: "An interesting article about how to use ISDATE function " Richard Mueller: "Grammar needs work and references would help." Samuel Lester: "Another good tip, thanks again" |
| Natig Gurbanov | Sql Server:Unusual String Functions | Richard Mueller: "A good effort, but grammar needs work and we could use more explanation." Samuel Lester: "Fun tip, thanks for covering this rarely discussed function" Durval Ramos: "Nice, could do with some more work" |
| Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Umer Qureshi | How to create and use custom control | JH: "Nice article. Love the animated pictures." |
| Sajid Ali Khan | JumpStart With Data Binding in UWP | JH: "Very informative article about data binding. Unfortunately some of the pictures are missing." |
| Umer Qureshi | Introduction To Data Binding Using Model Class | JH: "Good example of one of the greatest features of XAML." |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| tommytwotrain | Space Invaders game using a DataTable and DataGridView | Anthony D. Green: "Bonus points for being fun. It's also well presented and informative." AN: A great fun article, well laid out too" Richard Mueller: "A very well written article. Lots of code and good references." Carmelo La Monica: "Very nice work, is very good to see a game with Datagrid. Congrats for work and vb net code." |
| SYEDSHANU | External Program Text Read using VB.NET | Carmelo La Monica: "Nice article, great animate images and vb net code." AN: "Very nice article, lots to read and love" Anthony D. Green: "Well structured but needs some proof reading. It's an informative example of using the Win32 API through P/Invoke but lacks sufficient motivation for the example." Richard Mueller: "Grammar needs work and we could use references." |
| .paul. | InputDialog Demo | Richard Mueller: "Great examples and code." Carmelo La Monica: "Great work, very interesting sample and code. Congrats." AN: The article is too short/simple. It re-implements funtionality available in the platform without demonstrating clear benefit. It's more of a code sample than an article. |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Anil Kumar | C# Delegate – a silent hero behind modern programming | Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains one of the most important types in .NET Framework. It would have been good if explained with more sample code." Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic topic, great code, congrats!" |
| Qasim Chaudhry | How To Customize Identity in ASP.NET MVC5 | Jaliya Udagedara: "Good! Step by step guide to customize ASP.NET Identity." Carmelo La Monica: "I'm not expert of AspNet, but this article is very useful and detailed in all parts!" |
| SYEDSHANU | SPC CP and Cpk Chart in C# Windows Forms | Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic, i mean is similar to tool for debug, great work." Jaliya Udagedara: "Needs some explanations to the code." |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Andy ONeill | TechNet Guru Iconography Suggestions | Richard Mueller: "What fun! Lots of good ideas here. Gets me thinking." |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Ken Cenerelli | List Services With PowerShell | Richard Mueller: "Well written article. The "See Also" section should only include Wiki articles, so those links could go in the "References" section." |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - December 2015 |
| Andy ONeill | Seasons Greetings | Peter Laker: "Yey for the seasonal article!" |
| Umer Qureshi | Difference between Grid and StackPanel | Peter Laker: "Nice explanation, thanks Umer" |
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