Become our FIRST Microsoft TechNet Store App Guru of 2014!!

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Happy New Year!

Time for a fresh start!

We're looking for the first Gurus of 2014!!

This is your chance to make your mark on the Microsoft developer 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.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

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.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker

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#PEJL

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Answer 1

3 articles are up with 16 days to go!

• Developing Applications for Low Memory Devices in Windows Phone by Saad Mahmood  
• Parsing XML File in Windows Phone in NO TIME  by Saad Mahmood 
• Windows Phone 8: WriteableBitmap and app resume by Tiziano Cacioppolini

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Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Answer 2

We have 4 articles now:

• Developing Applications for Low Memory Devices in Windows Phone by Saad Mahmood  
• Parsing XML File in Windows Phone in NO TIME  by Saad Mahmood 
• Windows Phone 8: WriteableBitmap and app resume by Tiziano Cacioppolini
• Windows 8.1: Creating Dynamic Live Tiles from User Controls with XAML and VB by Damien Allan

     

And 14 days to go!

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Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Answer 3

We're up to 6 articles and 5 days to go!

• Developing Applications for Low Memory Devices in Windows Phone by Saad Mahmood  
• Parsing XML File in Windows Phone in NO TIME  by Saad Mahmood 
• Windows Phone 8: WriteableBitmap and app resume by Tiziano Cacioppolini
• Windows 8.1: Creating Dynamic Live Tiles from User Controls with XAML and VB by Damien Allan
• Windows 8.1: how to create a filters control like Health & Fitness and Food & Drink apps in XAML and C# byAndrea Domenichini
• Windows Phone 8: Seeding a Lex.DB Database for a windows phone app by Ken Tucker

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Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Answer 4

 Still the 6 articles and 3 days to go!

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Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Answer 5

Hi,

who is the winner?

Answer 6

We should know around the 15th.

We give the judges a couple of weeks to vote and comment.

They are all top players in their areas and obviously very busy.

Good luck all!

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#PEJL

Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!

If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.