The year is over…lets see how we closed out 2005 in the MSDN Forums!December 2005Top (11) Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums:MemberAnswersAyman Shoukry 244 Martin Richter 204 Mark Rideout 196 PeteL - MSFT 179 sboots 142 David M. Kean 135 Eric Vogel 124 Paul Domag 116 Ilya Tumanov 103 Craig ...

Here’s the list, checking it twice, let’s find out what teams were naughty or nice back in November: November 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Ayman Shoukry 145 Paul Domag 131 Martin Richter 118 David M. Kean 116 Neil Enns MSFT 81 Daniel Rieck 81 Konstantin ...

Over the past two days, the Microsoft Forums team has been deploying updates to our existing Forums. These changes include: New rich text editor box. We are now using the same message box that the MSN Spaces team uses. Thanks to the Spaces team for sharing code! We now support 9 languages and ...

Sorry everyone...when I edited my post, it also seems to have been deleted. Here's the repost of my original message: It’s about that time again…who were the top posters in October on the MSDN Forums? October 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Paul Domag ...

Hello everyone! I'm thinking about ways that we could encourage more people to click on the "Mark as Answer" button on the replies to questions in the forums. In case you've never seen it, the "Mark as Answer" button is visible on every reply to a question thread if:1.) You are a moderator or ...

Sorry about the late update this month—but here they are—the top answerers for the month of September! September 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Vikram 143 Ayman Shoukry 110 Daniel Rieck 99 Jonathan Caves MSFT 94 Paul Domag 85 Bruce Taimana MSFT ...

It’s that time again—who were the top answerers in the month of August? What forums are rocking with their answer rates? Which ones need some more help? Here’s a recap of August on the forums: August 2005 Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums: Member Answers Vikram 147 Ayman ...

Who's posted the most replies marked as answers in the month of July? Who are the domain experts? Here is the July view of top forum users!In July of 2005Top Answerers Accross the MSDN Forums are...Vikram 187David M. Kean 98Mark Rideout 76Paul Domag 75Nikola Dudar 59Michael Fanning - MS ...

Who's posted the most replies marked as answers from the end of May to June? Who are the domain experts? Here is the June view of top forum users!In June (5/20-6/30)Top Answerers Across the MSDN forums are...David M. Kean 170 durstin 76 Vikram 60 Keith Thomson 59 Joe Stegman 57 Nikola Dudar 53 ...

Who's posted the most replies marked as answers? Who has been rated as the most helpful poster? I've wanted to know for a while. This week I got my very own read only drop of the forum database so I could run all sorts of fun queries. Here's what I've learned so far. The all time top ...

The big news has already been posted. The Forums team rolled out a service pack that fixes issues with code formatting, smilies, alerts, and much more. Since that’s out of the way I’ll move into answering some of the questions that have been sent my way. What "Softies" are answering ...

A lot has happened since I posted the first update and welcome post. The MSDN Forums Beta has since seen its 3000th registerd user and 3000th thread. The answer rate is still hovering around the 90% mark at 88% as of this morning! Several new forums are now live including new VB and VSTS ...

Welcome to the MSDN Forums Beta! MSDN Forums Beta allows you to search a growing archive of technical questions and answers. If an answer can’t be found in search, you can ask a new question, be notified when there are replies, and mark the appropriate reply as an answer. Over time we’ll use ...

The Microsoft Forums are a public community designed to allow professionals to exchange questions and answers in a comfortable and safe manner. The forums are moderated to help prevent offensive or irrelevant material from degrading the usefulness of this community. Posts or threads that are ...

To all Forums users, Forums SP5 is now live, please log any bugs you may find in the bug feedback forum. We appreciate your patience during tonight's somewhat unexpected downtime. More information will be forthcoming about bug fixes and new features for the SP. -Jeremy Kelley Delay ...

I've just noticed that my name has <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Answerer</strong></font> beneath it, is this new, and how does it work? Ta

The Forums team has completed the SP4 deployment to our Pre-Production environment and Test has signed off. Deployment to the Live site (forums.microsoft.com) has been scheduled to begin around 1pm PST on Wed. 7/25. Impact to users during deployment should be minimal. Please look for the ...

The SP3 deployment is complete. The team will follow up on any lingering issues as needed. Thanks for your patience!====================================================This service pack includes:Preventing the rendering of emoticons in code samples Fixing problems with posting when the user’s ...

Thanks for your patience while we were rolling out this release. It is now complete.This service pack addresses:- Converting NNTP OnPost Sync to 64bit solution- Making the “lock-indicator” the child of the Lock post in Outlook Express- Fixing the font size in posts returned from the NNTP ...

Check out the first "release" of the small MSN Forums Search tool that I've made to help construct complex searches on the Microsoft forums and run them against MSN Search: http://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/2006/07/12/663757.aspxLet me know what you ...

Today, the Microsoft Forums Team, launched some updates to the Forums Service. We are pleased to provide the new features listed below: 1. Top Answerers Page: This page will display a list of the top 100 users over the past 30 days who have the most # of posts marked as answered. It is ...

Hello Everyone, Here is the time again to get to statistics of Answers for the month of Mar’06. Sande continued to maintain his Top position for the 2nd time consistently for the month of Mar’06 and cgraus is overtaken by Nishant but cgraus tries to stay in Top 3 list. Congrats Sande, Nishant ...

Today I'm pleased to announce something that I think should help all users to this site out quite a bit. Every user on the MSDN Forums site that had 5 or more answers as of April 1st has been granted the role of "Answerer" on the site. Over 800 users qualified for this priviledge, bringing the ...

Hello Everyone, Please remember to mark your post as answered as soon as you get a reply, which you think is an answer for your post. You can do this by clicking on "Mark as Answer" button for the reply which is answer for your post. You can always re-open the post by clicking on ...

Below are the statistics for the period Jan’06-Feb’06. Thank you very much for the continued support in the Forums. Sande and cgraus are two new people who actually took top 1st and 2nd positions under All ofMSDN Forums section.That's a real good job. Congratulations Sandey and cgraus.Lots of ...