Council Spotlight: You could be our Fabulous February TechNet Guru!
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Fabulous February is here at last!
This is the month some of the greatest names in TechNet Wiki history will step forth and give us knowledge!
That's YOU by the way!
Drop us a little ray of sun, a few lines of love, or virtual valentine!
Your revelations could enrich so many more if you copied it for posterity into the wiki of wisdom
We need heroes! We need YOU! Join us and grow your reputation amongst some of the greats of the community!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
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!
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."
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 :)"
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."
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"."
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
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!"
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"
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
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."
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."
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.
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!"
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!"
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