Top Posters for November
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 Gonikman 68
Ilya Tumanov 65
cgraus 64
Jonathan Caves MSFT 59
Yet another change at the top this month, with the C++ team’s own Ayman Shoukry (Program Manager) taking top honors. And people say that PMs never do anything…
Paul Domag comes in second this month, with 131 answers this month. Congratulations! In total, the top ten posters contributed 928 answers in November, yet another new all-time high! How high is everyone going to go?
Top Answerers Across all of the MSDN Forums, All-Time:
Member Answers
Vikram 938
David M. Kean 822
Paul Domag 756
Ayman Shoukry 521
Daniel Rieck 352
Keith Thomson 343
Martin Richter 329
Buck Hodges 272
Jonathan Caves MSFT 265
Mark Rideout 244
Vikram is still winning the marathon here with 938 answers contributed. Who will be the first person to four digits? Will it happen in 2005? All time, the forums have answered 24,454 questions! We are up above 2,000 questions being asked every week!
Who were the top subject experts in November?
WinForms Top 3
Member Answers
David M. Kean 29
Mark Rideout 29
Jessica 24
VSTS Top 3
Member Answers
Buck Hodges 55
Brian Harry*** 46
Michael Fanning - MS 45
***Brian is actually the PUM (Product Unit Manager) in charge of VSTS…talk about Microsoft participation on the forums!***
SQL Top 3
Member Answers
Umachandar Jayachandran - MS 40
Steven Twitchell 35
Chris Lovett 33
VB Top 3
Member Answers
HuyN_MS 48
Keith Thomson 44
Paul Domag 43
VC++ Top 3
Member Answers
Ayman Shoukry 144
Martin Richter 114
Jonathan Caves MSFT 59
VC# Top 3
Member Answers
Daniel Rieck 21
Paul Domag 21
Konstantin Gonikman 19
Remember—mark the best replies as answers!
Top 10 DevDiv Teams by Answer Rate in September
Congratulations to these teams who have the highest answer rates for questions asked in November! The overall forums 2 day answer rate in November was 47%, and our overall answer rate was 64%...getting better!
Team 2 Day Answer Rate
VCPU 81%
VSData 74%
Windows Gaming 70%
VJSPU 68%
CLR 67%
NetCF 67%
WWF 65%
NCL 65%
VSTS 63%
LINQ 55%
Top 10 Forums With the Highest Opportunity for Improvement…
We need help in these forums…if you consider yourself an expert in any of these areas, this a great way to help your fellow developers (not to mention eventually earn moderator privileges…)![]()
Team 2 Day Answer Rate
Windows SDK 22%
SQL BI 31%
Trinity 34%
WinForms 35%
XMLMessaging 36%
Express 37%
SQL 38%
Avalon 42%
VBPU 42%
Devdiv Setup 44%

