I'm proud to annouce the Belgian availability of the first European Silverlight Challenge, organised by Ineta Europe. In Belgium, Visug, the Belgian Visual Studio User Group, is the usergroup that organises this challenge.
Probably, you haven't heard of this competition yet. Well then, let me explain what you have to do in order to participate, and, maybe more importantly, what great prices are to be won!
The goal is to get more people developing Silverlight applications. As a participant, you can create whatever application you wish in Silverlight (may be in combination with another technology, for example ASP.NET/ASP.NET AJAX). You can upload your creation to our Belgian competition website, http://belgium.silverlightchallenge.eu. Do not upload it to the general website (www.silverlightchallenge.eu). The creations that reach us before January 31st 2008, will take part in the competition. A jury will then decide on 4 winners between the Belgian creations. The best creation will be entered in the European contest afterwards, where a jury will select the best participation over all countries.
Ready to start creating your Silverlight application? Maybe you'll get even more creative when you hear what great prizes you can win!
For the Belgian competition, these are the prizes:
1st Prize :
- To be confirmed: MSDN subscription
- IdeaBlade's DevForce Professional License
- JetBrains's ReSharper + DotTrace bundle,
- Wrike - 2 year 5-user subscription
- Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET Developer Subscription and Source Code License.
2nd Prize :
- Infragistic's NetAdvantage for .NET
- Jet Brains's ReSharper
- Wrike - 2 Year 1 user subscription
- O'reilly Book (to choose from this five books: Learning WCF Programming WPF Learning ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Programming ASP.NET Ajax Head First C# - Please consider that this last book has still not been published and might not be available)
3rd Prize :
- Component One's DemoWorks licenses
- Wrike - 2 Year 1 user subscription
4th Prize (Students) :
- 25 Silverlight Unleashed
- Wrike - 2 Year 1 user subscription
And finallay, the European prizes:
1st. Prize :
- MIX '08 ticket & travel,
- 1 DevForce Enterprise License (without BOS)
- 1 Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET + WinForms + Reporting Developer Subscription and Source Code Licenses
- 1 Component One's Enterprise Studio Subscription
- Wrike 2 year 15 user Subscription
2nd. Prize :
- MIX '08 ticket & travel
- 1 Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET + WinForms + Reporting Developer Subscription and Source Code Licenses
- 1 Component One's Enterprise Studio Subscription
- 1 Red-Gate's NET professional bundle (ANTS Profiler Pro)
3rd. Prize :
- MIX '08 : ticket & travel FC
- 1 Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET + WinForms + Reporting Developer Subscription and Source Code Licenses
- 1 Component One's Enterprise Studio Subscription
4th. Prize (students) :
- 1 Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET + WinForms + Reporting Developer Subscription and Source Code Licenses
Did I just hear your brains thinkering on what you should create? I think I did, dear reader! Whenever your creation is ready for publication, upload it to http://belgium.silverlightchallenge.eu . If you are in need for further assistance, you can contact me through the contact form on the challenge website or simply use the comments here.
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