MSDN Forums Top Users August
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:
MemberAnswers
Vikram147
Ayman Shoukry96
David M. Kean94
DMan183
Paul Domag69
Mark Rideout65
Keith Thomson53
Daniel Rieck45
James Kovacs44
MarcD39
Vikram continues to be the top answerer on the forums for the second month in a row! Congrats also to Ayman Shoukry, coming from nowhere to be the top Microsoft person on the forums!The top ten answerers combined for735 answers, up only by three answers from July.Let’s push to make September our best month yet!
Who were the top subject experts in August?
WinForms Top 3
MemberAnswers
Mark Rideout65
David M. Kean35
Joe Stegman23
VSTS Top 3
MemberAnswers
Michael Fanning - MS34
Rob Caron MSFT29
Buck Hodges21
SQL Top 3
MemberAnswers
Brian Welcker36
Umachandar Jayachandran - MS27
oj 23
VB Top 3
MemberAnswers
Keith Thomson53
DMan124
Dustin_H16
VC Top 3
MemberAnswers
Ayman Shoukry94
Jonathan Caves MSFT38
Ron Pihlgren11
VC# Top 3
MemberAnswers
Vikram33
Saurabh Nandu23
Luke Hoban15
Device Development Top 3
MemberAnswers
Ilya Tumanov21
Jeff Abraham8
Vladimir Fedorov7
Remember that if you want to get credit for your answer, always remind the question asker to mark your reply as an answer!
Top 10 Forums by Answer Rate in August
Congratulations to these teams who have the highest answer rates for questions asked in August!(Forums removed with low traffic rates.)
ForumAnswer RateAverage Days to Answer
Data MiningSQL100%7.3
VS Guidance Automation100%2.1
Visual Studio Class Designer100%1.2
Visual J# General100%2.7
VSTS Workshop100%2.8
Transact-SQL100%1.2
VSTS General99%3.3
Visual C++ General98%3.7
VSTS Team Test98%2.4
SQL Server Security97%5.6
Top 10 Forums that Need Help (by Answer Rate) in August
Looking for a place to really make an impact on the forums?Here’s the team’s that could use the most help (Forums removed with low traffic rates):
ForumAnswer RateAverage Days to Answer
SQL Server Analysis Svs.14%7.7
Visual Basic for Applications 31%22.2
Visual Studio Debugger31%9.9
WinForms Deployment36%7.0
SQL Server Data Access36%10.9
.NET Data Access & Storage 43%6.2
Visual Basic Language45%3.9
SQL Server Reporting Svs.45%6.4
Windows Forms Designer46%5.6
Web Svs. XMLMessaging49%10.3

