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VS2008 Demo Challenge

Last week or so, I stumbled on to the site for the Visual Studio 2008 Demo Challenge. The gist of the contest is to make a video explaining why VS 2008 is great, and then win stuff. Your video is played backed in a Silverlight app that your host at silverlight.live.com.

So I make a video, and I think it's pretty funny.  I setup an app with Expression Encoder, and I'm feeling great.  I go to submit the video on the contest site and ... nothing. The site seems broken, which would explain the lack of videos in the gallery. (I had a bad feeling about the absence of competition.)

I just don't have good luck with Microsoft contests. :-(

Click here to watch the video. You'll need Silverlight 1.0 to view it.

Update: I just heard that the contest died. Would someone still like to give me an Xbox for kicks? :-)



Comments

Christopher Bennage said:

If anyone is interested in seeing a tutorial on how to do this (with Expression Encoder), just let me know.

# February 12, 2008 10:42 AM

About Christopher Bennage

Christopher is a software developer and consultant at Blue Spire Consulting, a company he co-founded with Rob Eisenberg in 2006. His interests include programming, liberal education, truth, beauty, and number of deceased British authors (C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and most recently Owen Barfield.) He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife and three children and still prefers to play as the Night Elves in WarCraft 3. Check out Devlicio.us!

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