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Use Visual Studio 2008 and/or Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to build a great Windows 7 application, and then post an article on The Code Project. You could win a fully loaded HP Touchsmart tx2z Notebook!

The original rules follow:

Submit a great article explaining how you built an app for Windows 7 – complete with code - and if yours is the highest rated article by both The Code Project community and our judges, you could win a fully loaded HP Touchsmart tx2z Notebook!

Requirements

• Write a great article using the regular Code Project submission guidelines  
• Your article should include screen shots and code samples
• Your article must use Visual Studio 2008 and/or Visual Studio 2010 Beta
• The app should run as a Windows client, and should take advantage of Windows-specific technologies/features found in Windows 7 (such as jumplists, thumbnails, etc.)
• You’ll need to tag your article with the key words "Windows 7”
• Post your article on The Code Project to automatically be entered in the contest

What You Can Win

Codeproject.com members can vote on your article. The articles that are highest-rated by members will be rated by our judges to determine the final winner.  If your article wins, in addition to receiving one of our three great prizes, you’ll be highlighted in The Code Project’s weekly newsletter and on our contest page.

The Rules

1. Articles must follow the guidelines listed above.
2. The articles can use any programming language but must focus on one of the Windows 7 features.
3. No cheating, lying, stealing code, or biting.
4. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
5. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
6. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
7. The contest runs from 3 November 2009 to 3 February 2010, at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time.  After the contest closes, no additional entries will be permitted.
8. By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your name, member profile information, article, code and any other submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by The Code Project and Microsoft.
9. By entering your article in the contest you agree that The Code Project and Microsoft can link to your article and all accompanying data or information for promotional purposes.

Some Excellent Resources

Below are some great links to help you get started.

Download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers
This is the most comprehensive Windows 7 training kit to date.

Get the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework
Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features from managed code.

Download the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Discover how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of Microsoft developer tools. This is no namby-pamby beta. It’s a full-octane beta release with a "Go Live" license that you can use to concept, build, test, and deploy killer Windows 7 apps —and you can even use it to create your contest submission.

Check out these Windows 7 resources:
For continued support for developing applications, services, and drivers for Windows 7—including application compatibility resources, a source code library, and much more—bookmark these resources:

MSDN Windows Developer
Training, tools, and software development kits

MSDN Windows Client Software Development Forums
Community advice, tips, and best practices

Sign up for MSDN Flash Newsletter!     
Stay up to date on new resources, the latest guidance, and upcoming events

Discover how to build Innovative Applications with the Windows 7 Developer Guide
Download the Windows 7 Developer Guide to learn how Windows 7 makes it easy for developers to create engaging, user-friendly applications by providing familiar tools and rich development features that allow them to take advantage of the latest PC capabilities.

Check out a Sample Article and then get started on your Windows @ Work contest article submission 
Titled “Display Progress and Overlay Icons for Multiple Views from .NET in Windows 7 Taskbar”, this article describes how to use Windows 7 new taskbar features, progress indication and overlay icon, from unmanaged .NET code. The second part shows you how to manage progress indication and overlay icons in case of multiple views (windows) and provides appropriate missing classes for Windows API Code Pack.

Update to Windows API Code Pack is available!
This release includes bug fixes, new APIs to support DirectWrite and Direct2D, additional samples, and documentation improvements.

Develop Your Windows 7 Application
Windows 7 is a highly anticipated operating system release for Microsoft, and we believe that migration to Windows 7 will be faster than with our last three releases. To get you started, we've set up a clear, three-phase approach to take advantage of the operating system's innovations.

Platform Update for Windows Vista and Platform Update for Windows Server 2008
Start writing applications and drivers that take advantage of the latest Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 technologies, without losing customers on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Get the Windows Driver Kit
Windows Driver Kit includes:  A set of headers, libraries, build tools, build environments, code samples, documentation, and other tools that can be used to create drivers and kernel software

Ultimate Developer Gift:
Buy Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Premium before March 22, 2010, and you will automatically be transitioned to the new Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN at no extra cost. Visual Studio 2010 Premium offers all the functionality of today’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Developer and Database Editions, plus many more new features. With your MSDN Premium subscription, you can use Windows 7 to design, develop, test and demo your applications on as many machines and devices as you need, as long as each person on your team is a subscriber.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered. The top 50 entries are shown.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

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31 Jan 2010Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

C#

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

COM

WinForms

Win32

Dev

WPF: Where to Put Value Converters?

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31 Jan 2010Arik Poznanski

The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?

C#

C#3.0

Vista

.NET3.5

Windows

WinXP

WPF

All-Topics

XAML

Dev

Autogenerate Playlists for iTunes in Directory Order

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12 Jan 2010shijo joseph

This article demonstrates a tool which can auto-generate playlists for iTunes.

C#3.0

C#

C#2.0

WinXP

Vista

.NET3.0

.NET3.5

Win2K

WinForms

Dev

XNA Snooker Club

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8 Mar 2010Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

WCF-enabled multi-player XNA game for the Windows platform.

C#

C#3.0

Vista

.NET3.5

WinXP

Visual-Studio

WCF

VS2008

Design

Dev

Classic Shell

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23 Feb 2010Ivo Beltchev

Classic Start menu and other shell features for Windows 7 and Vista.

C++

Windows

Win7

Vista

Win64

ATL

COM

Win32

Dev

Windows 7 Trigger Start Service

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17 Jan 2010Abhishek Sur

Implement services that start/stop automatically to some events like Device attached, Network Availability, Firewall port modified, Domain join, Group Policy change etc

C#

C#4.0

C#3.0

Win2008

Win7

Windows

Win32

Win64

VS2008

Dev

C# Snooker

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14 Dec 2009Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Sound-enabled pool game for C#.

C#

C#2.0

WinXP

Vista

.NET2.0

Win32

Visual-Studio

VS2005

Design

Dev

WF4 Custom activities for message mediation

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20 Dec 2012Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation, and usage of custom message mediation activities for a XAML workflow.

XML

XSLT

C#

Windows

.NET

Vista

XAML

WCF

Design

Dev

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

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12 Apr 2010Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

VC9.0

C++

Win2003

Vista

Windows

WinXP

Win64

WTL

Win32

Dev

Storm - the world's best IDE framework for .NET

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4 Feb 2010WebMaster

Create fast, flexible, and extensible IDE applications easily with Storm - it takes nearly no code at all!

C#3.0

C#

C#2.0

Vista

.NET3.5

WinXP

Visual-Studio

GDI+

VS2008

Dev

MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library

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17 Mar 2015Tsuda Kageyu

Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.

C

VC9.0

C++

Win2003

Vista

WinXP

Win32

Win64

VS2008

Dev

Gesture Recognition for Touch Devices (Touch Gestures)

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3 Feb 2010The Manoj Kumar

A multi-touch simple and compound gesture recognition implementation for Windows 7 in WPF.

C#

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

Visual-Studio

XAML

VS2008

Dev

Using the new Windows 7 features for an iTunes Taskbar application

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3 Feb 2010Eric Haddan

Demonstrates WPF C# examples of Windows Touch, Thumbnails, Task Dialogs, Thumbnail Toolbars, Overlay Icons, and Progress bars using the .NET Framework 3.51.

C#

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

WPF

COM

Dev

Parallel Computing and Data Parallelism

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2 Feb 2010logicchild

An article that focuses on Data Parallelism based on the Multi-Core Processor Technology.

C#

C#4.0

C++

Win2008

Windows

VS2010

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

parallel-processing

Wake the PC from standby or hibernation

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3 Feb 2014Daniele Di Sarli

How to automatically wake up the PC at some time in the future.

C#3.0

C#

C#4.0

C#2.0

Vista

Windows

.NET

WinXP

Win32

Dev

Gmail for Windows 7

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24 Jan 2010Vance Kessler

A little application to notify you of new Gmail using new Windows 7 features

C#

C#3.0

Win7

Windows

Dev

Multi-Touch Robot Control on Windows 7 using WPF 4.0

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5 Feb 2010theRobotGeek

Control a Lego NXT robot using multi-touch on Windows 7.

C#

.NET

Win7

.NET4

Windows

WPF

Dev

Windows 7: Exploration of 7 exciting new programming features in a single application!

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6 Jan 2010Michael Chourdakis

Demonstration of seven new programming technologies.

C++

Win2008

Win7

Windows

Win32

Win64

Visual-Studio

DirectX

VS2008

Dev

Writing a Sensor Driver for the Wiimote on Windows 7

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16 Feb 2010Rajasekharan Vengalil

How to write a Sensor driver that provides access to the 3-axis accelerometer on a Nintendo Wiimote on Windows 7

C++

Win7

Windows

Visual-Studio

VS2008

Dev

Clipz - A Friendly Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar Features

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17 Dec 2009TylerBrinks

An overview of the Windows 7 taskbar features, and how to use then in your own applications.

C#

C#4.0

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

WinForms

Design

Dev

Create a WPF Custom Control, Part 2

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13 Oct 2010David Veeneman

How to create a WPF custom control, using Expression Blend and Visual Studio

C#

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

WPF

XAML

Dev

Task Manager

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1 Jan 2010Shakeel Iqbal

Manage your daily tasks and To-Do list using some exciting features of Windows 7.

C#

SQL

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

.NET3.5

VS2008

SQL-Server-2005

Dev

Architect

Hosting IFRAMEs using the JQuery UI Tabs plug-in - Part 1

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23 Dec 2009Matt Esterak

Using JQuery UI Tabs to host web pages via IFRAMEs.

XML

C#

WinXP

Win2003

Vista

.NET2.0

VS2008

ASP.NET

VS2005

Dev

Creating a Timer Using the Amazing New Windows 7 Features

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4 Jan 2010Dimitri Witkowski

This article shows how to create a simple egg timer that uses features new to Windows 7.

C#

.NET

Win7

Windows

Dev

MP3 Player for Windows 7

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1 Feb 2010Shoban Kumar

MP3 player which has Windows 7 features like Progressbar and Thumbnail toolbar

C#

XML

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

Dev

text

Another Screensaver with WPF

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27 Jan 2012Ruxo Zheng

Lessons learnt from writing a screensaver with WPF

C#

C#3.0

.NET3.5

Windows

.NET

WinXP

WPF

LINQ

XAML

Dev

Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7

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27 Jan 2010Igor Tolmachev

Displays the old "two monitors" icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray.

C++

VC9.0

VC6

Win7

Windows

Win32

Sales

Dev

Marketing

Side by Side Configuration Incorrect

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11 Nov 2009John Samuel Vekal

Application has failed to start because side by side configuration is incorrect

C#

.NET3.0

.NET3.5

Windows

.NET2.0

VS2008

Visual-Studio

All-Topics

VS2005

Dev

Windows 7 new features: Step by step in VB.NET and C#

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31 Aug 2010Helmy.m

Explaining all the new must have features in Windows 7 to make your application look shiny and professional, like the new features of the task bar and more.

VB

C#

.NET

Win7

Windows

Customisation with VB - Changing Logon Backgrounds in Windows 7

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24 Jan 2010Saul Johnson

Using VB to change Windows 7 logon backgrounds

VB

VB9

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

WinForms

OSIcon

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12 Jan 2010Tiago Conceição

Library for handling and retrieving system icons

C#4.0

C#

WinXP

Win2003

Vista

Win2K

Win32

Visual-Studio

VS2008

Dev

Windows 7 / VS2010 demo app

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23 Nov 2009Sacha Barber

Using Windows7 / VS2010 and some of the new bits such as TaskBar/JumpList and Drag & Drop

C#4.0

C#

.NET

Windows

XAML

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

nvidia

MVVM

Simplify Code Using NDepend

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3 Nov 2009Abhishek Sur

Using this article you will get the basic idea of how you could use NDepend to control/analyze your application. It allows to apply design rules and refactor code.

C#3.0

VB8

C#2.0

WinXP

Win2003

.NET2.0

ADO

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

Parallel fast compression unleashing the power of multi-core machines using the .NET TPL (Task Parallel Library)

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16 Aug 2015Bharath K A

Parallel fast compression uses TPL to achieve complete usage of a multi-core system. Fast compression compresses files nX times faster, where n = the number of processors in the machine.

C#4.0

C#

WinXP

Win2003

Win2K

VS2010

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

parallel-processing

Turn Off Monitor when PC is Locked

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25 Nov 2009Mayank Rai

Turn Off Monitor when PC is locked

C++

Vista

Windows

WinXP

VS2008

Win32

VS2005

Dev

Design

Architect

Tree Control Offering Drag and Drop, Folder Auto-expansion, New/edit/delete, and Button Move

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29 Mar 2010Phil Outram

A basic tree control that ties together all the functionality to make items fully editable and moveable.

C++

VC6

WinXP

Win2003

Vista

Windows

Win2K

Win32

Design

Dev

How to copy files remotely

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12 Jan 2010Santiago Sanchez

Two applications to copy files remotely using sockets.

C#

C#3.0

Win2003

Vista

.NET3.5

Windows

WinXP

Dev

Batch Image Resizer

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9 Feb 2010JimBob SquarePants

A tool for resizing batches of images

C#

Win7

Windows

WinForms

GDI+

Dev

Windows 7: New Features Explained using .NET

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29 Mar 2021Abhishek Sur

New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications

C#

.NET

Win7

Windows

Visual-Studio

Browsing xkcd in a Windows 7 way

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25 Jan 2010Giorgi Dalakishvili

A desktop application with new Windows 7 features for browsing xkcd.

C#

.NET

Win7

Windows

WinForms

Dev

Remove Skype Chat History for Single Contact

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17 Feb 2013lkgamage

A small C# utility to clear a single contact chat history, since Skype by default only deletes full chat history.

SQL

C#

Windows

Win7

Vista

Dev

DBA

Updating Jumplists On The Fly

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2 Feb 2010Cylentwolf

This article shows the basics of using jumplists; creating tasks in them linking to another excutable and updating them on the fly.

C#

Win7

Windows

Dev

MSDTC Service enable issues when Using .NET TransactionScope.

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25 Jan 2010Md. Marufuzzaman

How to use .NET TransactionScope & enable Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)

C#

C#4.0

C#3.0

Win2003

Vista

WinXP

Visual-Studio

VS2008

DBA

Architect

To Create A COOL Desktop Lyrics Demo (A Gift To All People On CP)

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1 Jan 2010Aric Wang

Many popular MP3 players have cool desktop lyrics, this demo uses a simple method to realize it. Happy new year!

VC7.0

VC7.1

VC8.0

C++

VC6

Windows

Win7

Win2008-R2

WinXP

Programmatically resize Desktop icons to a small list in Windows Vista and Windows 7

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20 Jan 2010Rei Resurreccion

Experience small and compact desktop icons view in Vista and Windows 7.

C++

Vista

Windows

Win7

WinXP

Win32

Dev

WeatherBar - Weather in the Taskbar

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1 Feb 2010Dennis Delimarsky

An application designed for Windows 7 to display the weather in a specific location

C#

XML

C#3.0

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET3.5

Design

Dev

Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64

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20 Nov 2009Sandrino Di Mattia

A small guide to installing SP2010 on your client OS

Win7

Windows

Silverlight Hierarchy Tree Control

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19 Oct 2010RobCroll

A Hierarchy Tree with the ability to display any control as a node

C#4.0

C#

Win7

Windows

Silverlight

Dev

Digitizer interface in C# using VBTablet

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4 Dec 2009Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Digitzer device interface using VBTablet in C#.

C#

C#2.0

Win2K

WinXP

.NET2.0

GDI+

hardware

GDI

Design

Dev

Create Simple Palette Animation

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26 Dec 2009Aric Wang

To show you how to create a easy animation with palette

VC7.0

VC7.1

VC8.0

C++

VC6

Win7

Windows

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Software Developer (Senior)

 United Kingdom

I currently hold the following qualifications (amongst others, I also studied Music Technology and Electronics, for my sins)

- MSc (Passed with distinctions), in Information Technology for E-Commerce
- BSc Hons (1st class) in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Both of these at Sussex University UK.

Award(s)

I am lucky enough to have won a few awards for Zany Crazy code articles over the years

• Microsoft C# MVP 2016
• Codeproject MVP 2016
• Microsoft C# MVP 2015
• Codeproject MVP 2015
• Microsoft C# MVP 2014
• Codeproject MVP 2014
• Microsoft C# MVP 2013
• Codeproject MVP 2013
• Microsoft C# MVP 2012
• Codeproject MVP 2012
• Microsoft C# MVP 2011
• Codeproject MVP 2011
• Microsoft C# MVP 2010
• Codeproject MVP 2010
• Microsoft C# MVP 2009
• Codeproject MVP 2009
• Microsoft C# MVP 2008
• Codeproject MVP 2008
• And numerous codeproject awards which you can see over at my blog

Sandrino Di Mattia

Technical Lead RealDolmen

 Belgium

I'm a Technical Consultant at RealDolmen, one of the largest players on the Belgian IT market: http://www.realdolmen.com

All posts also appear on my blogs: http://blog.sandrinodimattia.net and http://blog.fabriccontroller.net

Santiago Sanchez

Software Developer

 Spain

I´ve been working with Oracle, Sql Server and Visual Basic 6 since 2003 and with C# since 2006. Now I´m fighting with Biztalk 2006 too...

MCTS - .NET Framework 4, Windows Applications
MCTS - Accessing Data with .NET Framework 4

Saul Johnson

Software Developer

 United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Shakeel Iqbal

Chief Technology Officer

 Pakistan

Passion and positive dedication is essential part of success. I believe on hardworking and sharing knowledge with others. I always try to be a better than I am and think positive for positive result.

My Blogs

My Linked-In Profile

shijo joseph

Technical Lead

 United States

Started Programming career with VB 6 and VC++ and now Into .Net Development. Working with .Net since its first release (Version 1.0 Beta). Lucky enough to continue always with most updated versions of .Net and as of now; May 2007, fighting with .Net 3.0 (WPF,WCF...etc) and it's next most anticipated version LINQ.

Got familiarity up on the .Net Technologies and Guidelines like CAB, and Patterns and Practices, Enterprise Library and now with it's WPF version etc.

Specialized in Windows and Distributed and Service oriented applications.

Shoban Kumar

Software Developer (Senior) Allianz Cornhill

 India

Shoban Kumar currently works with Allianz Cornhill India in Trivandrum as a Senior Software Engineer. He is one of the core member of Kerala Microsoft User's Group http://www.k-mug.org.

SharePoint Blog : http://allaboutmoss.com

He has also written many open source applications which can be found in Codeplex : http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/shobankr

The Manoj Kumar

Team Leader

 India

Manoj Kumar is a Humble Programmer and a trainer having dozens of trainings, publications and articles to his wallet.

His programming adventures began with Basic at an age of 11. Being a mathematician at core, soon he started looking for some more and moved to assembly language, later to C, C++, VC++ and finally to .Net.

He started his professional career as a VC++ 6 trainer, moved to embedded systems and device driver development, then to complex biological systems and finally moved to pure application development.

He has been teaching and training people for more than 12 years on a wide range of topics including Mathematics, Algorithms, Data Structures, C, C++, VC++, MFC, C#, Design Patterns and now a days he is working extensively with Visual Studio and .Net framework which includes VSX, WPF, Silverlight, WCF, WF, XAML and RIAs.

Awards:

• Ideablade RIA Service Challenge winner
• Visual Studio 2010 Extension Contest winner (Best Use of Editor)

Visit my website and blog or drop me a mail.

Feel free to connect with me on Linkedin.

theRobotGeek

Software Developer (Senior) Feirtech Inc.

 United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Tiago Conceição

 Portugal

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Tsuda Kageyu

Software Developer

 Japan

In 1985, I got my first computer Casio MX-10, the cheapest one of MSX home computers. Then I began programming in BASIC and assembly language, and have experienced over ten languages from that time on.
Now, my primary languages are C++ and C#. Working for a small company in my home town in a rural area of Japan.

• My GitHub page: https://github.com/TsudaKageyu
• Official member of WTL Team who maintains the NuGet package.

TylerBrinks

Web Developer PageLabs

 United States

I'm the founder of PageLabs, a web-based performance and SEO optimization site.

Give your site a boost in performance, even take a free speed test!

http://www.pagelabs.com

Vance Kessler

Web Developer

 United States

I have been developing .NET applications since 2001 and have been working in software development since 1989.

WebMaster

 Israel

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Contest Rules and Entry Requirements

1. Qualifying articles must use Visual Studio 2008 and/or Visual Studio 2010 Beta and focus on Windows-specific technologies/features found in Windows 7
2. The contest begins on November 3, 2009 and will end February 3, 2010 at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
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Results when? Michael Chourdakis4-Feb-10 2:50 Michael Chourdakis 4-Feb-10 2:50  When will we have the results of the contest ? M. Michael Chourdakis - Music & DSP Engineer http://www.turboirc.com - Software & Research Re: Results when? Andrea Penner4-Feb-10 4:38 Andrea Penner 4-Feb-10 4:38  Hi Michael, we'll be announcing the Windows 7 Contest Winners next week in our Newsletter on Monday. We'll also post the winners in our monthly competition section, as well as notify them through email. Cheers, Andrea Submission Question harsimranb2-Feb-10 12:48 harsimranb 2-Feb-10 12:48  I was just cusrious to know about the submission. Can we use the Article Submission Wizard to submit the article for this contest, or does it have to be an email submission? The contest I believes ends tomorrow night (pacific), and I am going to try to Submit the article before the contest runs out. Thanks! Re: Submission Question Chris Maunder2-Feb-10 15:38 Chris Maunder 2-Feb-10 15:38  Whatever works for you - email or the Wizard. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: Submission Question harsimranb2-Feb-10 19:30 harsimranb 2-Feb-10 19:30  Thanks! IS this for innovation or profit? Fred Myers6-Jan-10 19:24 Fred Myers 6-Jan-10 19:24  Is this a contest of innovation or profit? A laptop? Who get's the rights to the .. winning .. killer app? Oh. Glory and praise... that's your prize. So. Get a laptop.. we get to market a potential profit hog. You get squat.... er.. laptop. Am I off-base? Re: IS this for innovation or profit? Chris Maunder7-Jan-10 3:04 Chris Maunder 7-Jan-10 3:04  eh? I have no idea what you mean by "profit hog". It's a competition to encourage developers to have a crack at Windows 7 and we managed to pull a few laptops into the deal. Developers write articles on manay topics constantly. We're just offering a prize on a specific topic. I'm lost. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: IS this for innovation or profit? bmnot10-Jan-10 1:39 bmnot 10-Jan-10 1:39  U call that a laptop? A laptop should be at least 15", 17" or 18" if u like that. 12" is a PDA on steroids so to speak Re: IS this for innovation or profit? Fred Myers10-Jan-10 6:57 Fred Myers 10-Jan-10 6:57  Anyone ever see Antitrust? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/[^] Delphi 2010 pglowacki28-Dec-09 23:27 pglowacki 28-Dec-09 23:27  Why the requirement is to use Visual Studio only? What about Delphi 2010 supporting all the new Windows 7 features including touch, multi-touch, gesturing, Ribbon, TaskDialogs, glassing and all the fancy Win7 stuff? regards, Paweł Głowacki EMEA Technical Lead for Delphi Embarcadero Technologies Re: Delphi 2010 Jeff Hadfield6-Jan-10 7:39 Jeff Hadfield 6-Jan-10 7:39  Use whatever tool you like to build a great Windows 7 app. Re: Delphi 2010 Michael Chourdakis1-Feb-10 3:52 Michael Chourdakis 1-Feb-10 3:52  I don't doubt that Delphi supports all these, but I do not like the fact that C++ Builder is left ages behind and I don't like the fact that although x64 is not new, there is no support in delphi as of 2010 and of course nothing announced for C++ Builder. Since you work from Embarcadero, please note them that all the goods and whistles are good, but basic stuff like a new optimizing compiler and x64 support are more important - and, If we have a tool that does it all (MS C++ compiler), then it is highly unlikely to switch to Embarcadero Techs just for the VCL. Michael. Michael Chourdakis - Music & DSP Engineer http://www.turboirc.com - Software & Research Re: Delphi 2010 radpolon7-Jan-12 15:00 radpolon 7-Jan-12 15:00  BECAUSE SOMEONE HAVE TO PAY FOR AWARDS. Why laptops Josef Manurung3-Dec-09 10:03 Josef Manurung 3-Dec-09 10:03  If(it's a desktop) { GiveItATry(); } Re: Why laptops zainnab11-Dec-09 6:14 zainnab 11-Dec-09 6:14  The laptops were my idea. I wanted folks to have a fully functional machine that could do multi-touch and sensor / location stuff in addition to all the other great things Win 7 has (jumplists, libraries, etc...). In addition, I wanted them to be able to take them out and show people all that great stuff so laptops were the logical choice. Re: Why laptops Chris Maunder7-Jan-10 3:05 Chris Maunder 7-Jan-10 3:05  Because they are easier to mail. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Broken Link cyborg_x6424-Nov-09 15:11 cyborg_x64 24-Nov-09 15:11  http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.asp[^] The link given above is broken. Re: Broken Link Chris Maunder24-Nov-09 15:58 Chris Maunder 24-Nov-09 15:58  Thanks - fixed. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Coolest Feature for Developers in Windows 7? zainnab15-Nov-09 3:41 zainnab 15-Nov-09 3:41  So, I'm working with the Code Project folks on this contest and wanted to know what features you feel are the coolest in Windows 7 for developers. There is a long list of stuff that is available but what really matters / impacts you in your daily work? Re: Coolest Feature for Developers in Windows 7? Chris Maunder15-Nov-09 5:17 Chris Maunder 15-Nov-09 5:17  Depends what you like - UI (ribbon, taskbar), web services, the biometrics stuff. Do what you think is cool, because everyone has a different version of cool. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP Re: Coolest Feature for Developers in Windows 7? zainnab15-Nov-09 5:48 zainnab 15-Nov-09 5:48  Exactly! So I want to hear what YOUR version of "cool" is. Personally, for example, I think Libraries are one of the coolest features you never hear much about in Win7. Re: Coolest Feature for Developers in Windows 7? [modified] decaffeinatedMonkey16-Dec-09 8:43 decaffeinatedMonkey 16-Dec-09 8:43  I'd have to say the coolest feature for me in Windows 7 is the Libraries, along with jump lists. Libraries allow me to organize my often-fragmented files that are stored everywhere (external hard-drives, jump drives, etc.). Jump lists are very cool, and are great time savers. Edit: In a nut-shell, all the time-savers now included in W7. modified on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:18 PM [Message Deleted] Divya Rathore5-Nov-09 18:16 Divya Rathore 5-Nov-09 18:16  [Message Deleted] Re: Great! But.. Jakob Olsen5-Nov-09 20:39 Jakob Olsen 5-Nov-09 20:39  I was thinking the exact same thing. Even in a Windows 7 contest are they trying to push Vista. Bitmatic - C# & .NET programming Re: Great! But.. Rama Krishna Vavilala5-Nov-09 22:52 Rama Krishna Vavilala 5-Nov-09 22:52  By the time the contest ends, these laptops will be outdated and new ones will come with WIndows 7.

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