Write.NET Code? There’s A Big Prize For That.

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Here in the developer platform product management team, we have kicked off a new campaign about the .NET Framework. There are so many people doing so many amazing things with .NET, and we want to hear from you. The site linked to above has stories from some of our customers doing some very unexpected things with the .NET Framework.

Those stories were submitted by our field, but now we’re asking you directly. Are you a .NET developer? Have you done something cool you want the world to know about? Great, come share your story and get featured on the wall of fame. Free traffic and visibility is never a bad thing.

For those of you willing to create a demo of your product using DemoMate from Impresys, you could win a car or a 12-day Galapagos Islands trip. You heard me…Bob Barker says “come on down!” We’re looking for interesting and unique solutions build on top of our stack. Bonus points if you interop with non-MSFT technologies. We have a distinguished panel of judges who will select the winner.

Last, if you are going to be at PDC, come to our party. We’re working in conjunction with the great guys at .NET Rocks (who, incidentally, have a great dev focused podcast) to throw a party at 8pm in the Visual Studio/.NET Lounge Theater. Free food, drinks, prizes…good times to be had by all.

  • drhowarddrfine

    Of course. If you didn't pay people, no one would use it.

  • TH

    that is the only way to get developer actually using .Net!

  • mp

    Brilliant comments, HN folks.

  • real_programmer

    man, those non .net developers are so lame. .NET developers don't hate on other platforms. Well, maybe PHP, that crap sucks.

  • dannyroa

    FYI: C# is the top-selling programming language book last year.

  • http://www.manyniches.com brandonwatson

    People can hate and I won't moderate comments…that's their right. However, I wish we could all get back to basics and realize that your language or framework doesn't define you. The fact that you are a builder, a maker, a creator or a coder. We all want to build cool shit. Rock on guys.

  • Barnaby

    If your language or framework doesn't matter, then why would we want to try .NET? I mean, we can still do cool stuff with other frameworks that we find easier to use and like better.

  • http://www.galapagos-islands-tourguide.com/ zuri

    The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.

  • http://www.galapagos-islands-tourguide.com/ zuri

    The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.

  • http://www.manyniches.com brandonwatson

    @Barnaby - you can use whatever framework you want…whatever works best for you. Our hope is that we can show you what amazing things you can create with .NET, and how you can use the same skillset, and even code to deploy your app to multiple platforms - Windows Client, web app, mobile, or RIA.

    First and foremost, developers should be comfortable. That's the best way to get to good code. Sometimes I like to try out new things to see if I have grown too comfortable with things. Am I happy that Visual Studio doesn't really support Python? No. Do I like Eclipse as my IDE for python? With PyDev it works OK. I have come to love TextMate for it's simplicity and hate it for the same thing. Amazing how attached you can become to intellisense on code.

    If you want to run PHP, you can do it on Windows. If you want to run Django or Ruby, same thing. If you want to run on Linux, you can do .NET development on Mono. There's no shortage of options. Let me know how we can help you.

  • ML

    Not sure who these campaigns are targeting anymore. Is there a level below ‘Mort’?

    No wonder “.NET Developer” is becoming a liability in development shops. :-)

  • ML

    Anyway, I did try the DemoMate trial and liked the capture and click annotation process.

    However, I didn’t get the month-to-month ‘service’ aspect of this product to justify the subscription pricing.

    Camtasia’s model has a really nice balance of pay one-time to own the capture/edit software and pay annually for the convenience of one-click video publishing and embedding on their servers.

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