Discover the Cloud.

Try Windows Azure and our 5 programming challenges for a chance at spot prizes, Stage prizes and the Grand Prize.

Over $16,000 in prizes total are up for grabs with 65 chances to win. Find your silver lining in the cloud.

How do I enter?

• First,Create a Trial Account on Azure! If you don't register you will not be eligible for the competition. Please ensure you sign up for your trial using this link so we can tell who's signed up.
  
• Second, post an article in the Azure section under Windows Azure Developer Contest that outlines your ideas
  
• Third, complete the challenges at each stage. Update your article, post some code, and keep an eye out for the spot prizes.

Challenge 1 starts April 15^th, 2013.

Note that start days start at 12AM and end dates end at 11:59PM. All times are US Eastern (Daylight Saving Time)

What is the Challenge?

The challenge is actually 5 Challenges, each two weeks long, that when combined will result in an a web application hosted on Azure that uses Azure data services, virtual machines and provides a great mobile experience. Everything a modern cloud based application needs.

As to what the application does - that's up to you. Be creative. Weave a story. Write something interesting, all the while writing about it in an article. You also choose how much or how little you write in your article. If you want to keep your cards close to your chest until the end then that's up to you. However, stage prizes will be judged on the current state of your article so you'll need to keep a balance.

Late Entrants: If you missed out on any one of the challenges then you can jump in at any time as long as you complete the stages you missed.

1.	First Challenge: Getting Started. April 15 - April 28 May 3
		The first challenge is a gimme. You need to setup a free trial Azure account (super easy) and post an article on CodeProject (in the Windows Azure Contest section) outlining your idea on what you'll build for the remaining stages. Most important: in 2 sentences or less explain how Azure might benefit or change the way you do things today. You can keep your article brief if you want to protect your ideas, or you can write up something juicy if you want to win the prize for this challenge. It's your move in this game of chess.
2.	Second Challenge: Build a website. April 29 - May 12
		Again, not really a challenge for any webdev worth their salt. However, what about packaging it up for simple deployment? What about responsive design? What about the other 9 free sites you can setup under your free Azure account? And how will your web app tie into the next challenge? Remember to write up your work in your article on CodeProject to have a chance at the prize for this second challenge.
3.	Third Challenge: Using SQL on Azure. May 13 - May 26
		Now it starts getting interesting. Use SQL on Azure in whatever way you wish. Add a little data to season the mix or use it as a backup.recovery solution. It's not just about data access. Again, write up what you've learned, what you're doing, and how you did it.
4.	Fourth Challenge: Virtual Machines. May 27 - Jun 9
		Never used a VM before? Never spun up a virtual machine from your application? It's time to try. Maybe you want to host a Windows or Linux application, or spin up a test environment, or have your own instance of SQL Express in a VM, or you can just spin up an instance of an existing web application to sit alongside your  application in a VM. We're really going to be digging into your article at this point. Is there code? Are there explanations of how you conquered challenges? Tell us your story.
5.	Fifth Challenge: Mobile access June 10 - June 24
		You're done. You've built a distributed n-tier cloud based data driven web application hosted on multiple virtual machines and you are the Master. But does it work on your Nokia, iPhone or Galaxy? I mean really work. Nicely, intuitively, seamlessly. Offline. It's up to you what you do at this point, but the judges will be testing your final masterpiece on their phones and tablets. Your CodeProject article, at this point, should be mostly complete.

During each challenge spot challenges will be announced and prizes will be awarded. Possible spot announcements could be the 1,000th entry, the first to complete a 5 minute challenge, or the best haiku in an article's sample code. You never know.

Before you race off and complete the challenges in one fell swoop, be warned that your entry for one challenge cannot be used as an entry for a subsequent stage. If you build a data driven website in Challenge 1 then you need to enter something new for the data driven portion of Challenge 2.

What is the reward?

• Each challenge will have 3 winners, with each winner receiving a 64 GB Surface RT with black Touch Cover (in the US only), or cash equivalent (outside of the US). That's $2,100 in prizes every two weeks, $10,500 in total
• Each challenge will also have up to 10 spot prizes of $100 each. That's $1,000 on offer per challenge.
• The Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize of $2,500 and promotion on CodeProject and Microsoft owned and operated properties. Fame and fortune.

What sorts of applications are acceptable?

Almost anything. In any language. Use C++, use node.js, use PHP with MySQL, or C# on ASP.NET with MVC and SQL Server, Your call, as long as you complete the challenges

This competition is to help you learn about building and hosting applications on Windows Azure, so obviously applications that run on the Azure platform are required. However, not just anything will get you a winner's jersey. Be creative, be daring, over extend and over achieve. The more you show off your understanding of Azure, and the more you focus on explaining what you're doing, the better your chances.

Read the Windows Azure Developer overview for more info on what you can do on Azure then sign up for your free trial.

FAQ

What if I missed a challenge?

Contestants who missed the deadline for one of the challenges can still go back and complete the challenges they missed, but they will not be eligible for that challenge's prizes. They will still be eligible for the grand prize and any spot prizes that occur while they are participating.

Do I write one article per challenge, or 1 article overall?

Please just write 1 article. At each challenge state you should go back and update your article.

Can you throw me some links on getting started?

Sure

• Sign up for a free Azure Trial
• Introduction to Windows Azure
• Windows Azure 101
• How to Create & Deploy a Website on Windows Azure
• How to Create a Custom Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
• Load Balancing Virtual Machines with Windows Azure
• Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Windows Azure Web Site and SQL Database
• Building a SQL Server 2012 Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure
• Get started with push notifications in Azure Mobile Services [ C# - JavaScript - Windows Phone 8 - iOS - Android]
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Code Samples

Can anyone enter?

As with any competition of this nature there are some restrictions. Employees at Microsoft, and CodeProject cannot enter, and laws in certain jurisdictions also restrict entrants. Please see the Terms and Conditions for a full list. 

Do I have to write a full article with source code?

Yes, an article is an important component of the challenge since it is the place where you describe what you are doing and how you solved problems that you ran into. This contest is designed to teach contestants and the audience, so the better your article, the more code you show and the more you explain how you completed each challenge, the better.

Stage Winners

Grand Prize Winner

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner Phil Lee NZ for his entry YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool in the CodeProject Windows Azure Developer Challenge.

A big thank you also goes out to everyone that took part in the challenge and winners in all stages of the competition! We hope you learned something new about Windows Azure and had some fun along the way. Please feel free to pass on any feedback you have on the competition in the comment section below.

Also, be sure to check some of the other great competitions we have going on right now like the CodeProject Ten Million Members Celebration Giveaway and the D&B Developer Challenge.

Deadlines are fast approaching!

Contest Judges:

• Pete O’Hanlon
• Terrence Dorsey
• Chris Maunder

Current Entries

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

Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

10 Jun 2013

roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

C#

.NET

Mobile

Windows-Phone-7

cloud

Windows

Azure

Dev

AI

Azure WebState

9 Jun 2013

Florian Rappl

Crawling tons of (individual) web information and creating statistics using Windows Azure.

Javascript

CSS

C#

cloud

.NET4.5

.NET

MVC

ASP.NET4

ASP.NET

OAuth

LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud

24 Jun 2013

Enrique Albert

Azure WebSite and W8 Store App using SQL-CE, Azure SQL, Mobile Services, SignalR, EF, WebAPI and integration to Bing Maps

C#

SQL-Server

Azure

SQL-CE

NHibernate

Git

CourseLearner: Azure based E-Learning product

9 Jun 2013

Ravi Gadag

Azure based e-learning product.

SQL

C#

.NET4.5

.NET

Azure

ASP.NET

The FindMe project

26 Apr 2013

Simon Jackson

FindMe - My entry to the Azure Developer competition

Mobile

Windows

Azure

web

phone

service

Keeping Sensitive Config Settings Secret with Azure Websites and GitHub

8 Jun 2013

Phil Lee NZ

A strategy for keeping sensitive configuration values, such as connection strings, out of your source control repository, but still available to your app both locally and in the cloud. We're looking specifically at Azure websites and GitHub.

C#4.0

C#

.NET4

cloud

.NET

Visual-Studio

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

Git

Using Azure Lease Blob

9 Jun 2013

Roman Kiss

This article describes how the Azure Lease Blob can help the composition of the business model during the runtime in the distributed event-driven pub/sub architecture.

XML

C#4.0

C#

.NET4

cloud

.NET4.5

.NET

Azure

Design

Dev

An Experiment in HTML5 Gaming

20 May 2013

Jon Honess

Using Windows Azure to build an online board game.

CSS

HTML

C#

cloud

.NET

MVC

Azure

ASP.NET

App Spotlights for Windows Phone applications

28 Apr 2013

ArchieCoder

Application to notify spotlighted Windows Phone apps to the developers on a daily basis

C#

cloud

Windows-Phone-8

Mobile

Azure

Azure is Not Smart, It is a Genius

2 May 2013

Ahmed Gaber (Biga)

This article is for "Discover the Cloud" challenge.

C#4.0

C#

.NET

Azure

WCF

Blue Commerce

23 Jun 2013

GrapecityIndia

Article for Azure Developer Contest

cloud

Azure

How to setup a rock solid VM on Windows Azure for your WordPress blogs

26 May 2013

Omar Al Zabir

How to setup a rock solid VM on Windows Azure for your WordPress blogs.

Azure

Climbing the Leaderboard, with Azure

3 May 2013

Steve Maier

Setting

C#

cloud

.NET4.5

.NET

MVC

ASP.NET

Campus Classifieds using Windows Azure

23 Jun 2013

Tim Corey

Learn how to get started in Windows Azure by following the progress of an actual web application as it is constructed.

SQL

C#

MVC

Azure

ASP.NET

Changing World

7 Jun 2013

Abhishek Nandy

Analysis Of World Climatic Condition

Javascript

HTML

JScript.NET

C#

Building E-learning Labs in the Cloud with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.

28 Apr 2013

Mohammad A. Amer

Building E-learning Labs in the Cloud with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.

cloud

Azure

SysAdmin

Dev

Path to Azure Structure

11 May 2013

Jack V. Vo

Indepth detail of how to utilize the trail period of windows Azure

VB.NET

VB

.NET

Mobile

cloud

Windows

Visual-Studio

Dev

Design

CEO

GlobalMeet - Petals of ASP.net in Azure

24 Jun 2013

ambilykk

GlobalMeet -An Event Management Site for all events across globe powered by Azure and ASP.Net

CSS

SQL

C#

cloud

.NET

ADO.NET

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

web_development

Academic Newsletter Generator

3 May 2013

Hari Maurya

Academic Newsletter Generator is document preparation online application that makes it very easy to generate fully customized documents like Newsletter, Event News etc.

CSS

HTML

C#4.0

C#

cloud

.NET

Sygnol: A Platform for Gamified Crowdsourcing

2 May 2013

flywheel

Sygnol your choices in surveys, straw polls, and interactive contests.

Javascript

CSS

SQL

C#

cloud

Visual-Studio

LINQ

ASP.NET

Dev

web_development

SOCIOBOARD – A Social Media Management and Analytics Platform

3 May 2013

Ghosh, Sumit

SOCIOBOARD – A Social Media Management and Analytics Platform

C#

.NET

ASP.NET

Using Azure for Home Automation

3 May 2013

nicks707

C#

.NET

cloud

Windows

Modeling a Directory Structure on Azure Blob Storage

25 May 2013

John Atten

This post discusses modeling a directory structure on Azure Blob Storage.

C#

cloud

Dev

Deploying DotNetNuke on Windows Azure

4 Jun 2013

PRANAV SINGH

In this blog post, we will go through step by step how to actualize DotNetNuke on Windows Azure Website from Gallery.

.NET

cloud

dotnet-nuke

Windows

Azure

Web API and Windows Azure. Part 1. History, a bit about REST, examples.

25 Jun 2013

Alexandr Belotserkovskiy

This series will be about Web API and its use in Windows Azure

Javascript

C#

cloud

.NET

MVC

jQuery

Azure

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

World Citizen News: a Mashup built with Location-based APIs

2 Jul 2013

'Anil' Radhakrishna

your source for crowd-sourced news and useful information

Javascript

CSS

HTML

C#

cloud

Ajax

Dev

JSONP

Multiplayer Games powered by Azure

12 May 2013

PraveenOjha

Introductory article for my submission in Windows Azure Developer Challenge

Azure

Real-Time Website Analytics

3 May 2013

Rajiv Charan Tej K

Real-Time Web Stats using Node.js and R

CSS

HTML

Javascript

cloud

Linux

Node.js

Azure

Sales

Marketing

Dev

Website testing using Genetic Algorithms

4 May 2013

Justin Frei

A highly flexible alternative to A/B website testing

Javascript

cloud

PHP

CloudUP - Every user's Private Cloud

11 May 2013

Rahul Manekari

Wherever you go, your data will follow you.

cloud

WPF

AppFabric

Azure

SQL-Server

Cryptor

4 May 2013

Javier Villar

Corporate Messaging

Javascript

Azure

PHP

eDude

6 May 2013

Ashish_Avinash

eDude is multifaceted application which will act as a helping hand to the user in many ways. There will be broadly two categories Emergency Help and non-emergency help.

C#

CSS

C#4.0

C#3.0

cloud

Visual-Studio

WCF

ASP.NET

Blend

expression

D.O.T.S. - Distributed Obfuscated Transmission of Status

30 May 2013

Henry Sheldon

An obscured communication protocol based on color and textured shapes.

Javascript

SQL

C#

cloud

.NET4.5

.NET

jQuery

AppFabric

Azure

MVC

YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool

17 Nov 2013

Phil Lee NZ

A site for managing and delivering virtual conferences - complete with embedded live streaming and chat. Showcasing the best Azure has to offer!

Javascript

HTML

C#

.NET4

cloud

.NET

SQL-Server

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

CityPulse: Facebook events can be so much more

27 Oct 2013

Patrick McCurley, Rachel Davey

An Azure based software solution allowing users to discover events around them on a massive scale. Features ASP.net MVC4, Entity Framework and a large importing backend utilizing Azure virtual machines

C#

cloud

.NET4.5

.NET

WPF

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

AI

Google-Maps

Amber Alerts in the Cloud

29 Apr 2013

Shayne P Boyer

Putting the alerts in your hands through the use of Azure

Javascript

C#

cloud

.NET

XAML

Azure

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

Rate my Box Art

26 May 2013

C. Dunn

View and rate box art for your favorite Xbox games!

C#

cloud

Windows-Phone-8

Mobile

Azure

SQL-Server

Dev

Home Automation Using Smart Connector

12 May 2013

Sagar B. shelar

This article explains how to create Smart Home which is controlled by RaspberryPi devices connected via SmartConnector.

Javascript

.NET4.5

.NET

Azure

MVC

RSS Reader

23 Apr 2013

Nick Stenroos-Dam

A replacement for Google Reader

.NET

cloud

Windows

Azure

Dev

Design

Architect

PCI Compliant Credit Card Handling on Windows Azure

2 Jun 2013

HTaylor

Out-of-Scope Payment Processing on the Cloud

Javascript

processing

Learning Center Electronic Signin

24 Jun 2013

radv

Time to automate the sign-in and sign-out process at the pre-school. Get it online, real-time and in the cloud

SQL

C#4.0

C#

Mobile

.NET

SQL-Server

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

load-testing

Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

9 Jun 2013

Stan Bice

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

eVC4.0

C#2.0

C#3.0

eVC3.0

.NET1.1

.NET2.0

.NET1.0

IIS6

IIS7

IIS5.1

LookFit - A HTML5 Web App hosted in the cloud (Completed)

24 Jun 2013

JonB3232

Windows Azure Development Challenge

HTML5

C#

Mobile

cloud

.NET

Azure

MVC4

jQuery

load-testing

Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control

25 Oct 2013

John Atten

Deploying an Azure website from source control.

C#

cloud

Azure

Dev

How to manage Azure IaaS Programmatically

2 Jun 2013

Hisham Elbreky

Learn how to manage windows azure virtual machines (IaaS) using C# code

C#

.NET

cloud

.NET4.5

Windows

ASP.NET

Best practices for using strongly typed messages with Azure Service Bus

17 Jun 2013

Phil Lee NZ

This article will show you a pattern for sending and receiving messages using Azure Service Bus + worker roles in a strongly typed manner, taking advantage of the built-in functionality that comes with Brokered Messages.

C#4.0

C#

.NET4

.NET

Visual-Studio

ASP.NET

Dev

Architect

ninject

IOC

Cloud-based Interactive Kiosk and Digital Signage

1 May 2013

Karlkim

Windows Azure Developer Challenge: Cloud-based interactive Kiosk and Digital Signage

Javascript

C#

cloud

Windows

Azure

C# Snippet Sharing with Roslyn and SignalR

5 Jun 2013

BrianRosamilia

Share code online with Visual Studio-like interactive features.

C#4.0

C#

cloud

Windows

ASP.NET

web_development

The Racing Sticks challenge - via Azure and the web

25 Apr 2013

Simon Jackson

Come one, come all , get your racing sticks here, throw them in and catch the winner!

Mobile

Windows

Azure

phone

service

Simple Instant Messaging Service

28 Apr 2013

Carlos Sardo

By Carlos Sardo and Miguel Pinto

cloud

.NET

ASP.NET

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

AmitGajjar

	Software Developer (Senior)
	India

No Biography provided

Abhishek Nandy

	Software Developer
	India

I am into software Development for less than a year and i have participated in 2 contests here at Codeproject:-Intel App Innovation Contest 2012 and Windows Azure Developer Challenge and been finalist at App Innovation contest App Submission award winner as well won two spot prizes for Azure Developer Challenge.I am also a finalist at Intel Perceptual Challenge Stage 2 with 6 entries nominated.I also won 2nd prize for Ultrabook article contest from CodeProject
Link:-
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/523105/Ultrabook-Development-My-Way

Microsoft MVA Fast Track Challenge Global Winner.
Ocutag App Challenge 2013 Finalist.

My work at Intel AppUp Store:-

UltraSensors:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultrasensors
UltraKnowHow:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultraknowhow

Ahmed Gaber (Biga)

	Software Developer
	Egypt

.NET Panda
my knife is Windows Azure, My gun is Windows Phone and my sexy car is WCF.
connect with me to learn .NET Panda techniques.

Alexandr Belotserkovskiy

	Instructor / Trainer Advanced Training
	Russian Federation

Windows Azure MVP.

alienboal

	Unknown

No Biography provided

ambilykk

	Architect TCS
	India

I have over 10 years of experience working on Microsoft Technologies. I am carrying the passion on Microsoft technologies specifically on web technologies such as ASP.Net, HTML5, jQuery and Ajax. My interests also include TFS, Azure, Windows 8, Visual Studio 2010. Technology adoption and learning is my key strength and technology sharing is my passion.

Microsoft MVP: Connected Service Developer

Anas Karkoukli

	Architect
	Canada

MCP, MCAD .NET

Blog: C# | B# | Stay#

Aner Bautista

	Database Developer Super Farmacia Siman S.A.
	Honduras

No Biography provided

'Anil' Radhakrishna

	Architect
	India

'Anil' Radhakrishna is a seasoned architect who enjoys working with Microsoft tools & technologies. He blogs quite regularly about his little discoveries and technical experiments on his blog called Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia. He loves building mash-ups using public Web APIs.

ArchieCoder

	Software Developer (Senior) Mirego
	Canada

My name is Sébastien Lachance.

I love C# developing Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications.

When I’m not in front of a computer, my hobbies include playing bridge, poker and other card games, biking, reading technology news.

Ashish_Avinash

	United States

No Biography provided

AspDotNetDev

	Web Developer
	United States

• Managing Your JavaScript Library in ASP.NET (if you work with ASP.net and you don't read that, you are dead to me).
• Graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Computer Science.
• Wrote some articles and some tips.
• DDR ("New high score? What does that mean? Did I break it?"), ping pong, and volleyball enthusiast.
• Software I have donated to (you should too):
  
  
  • KeePass
  • Wikipedia
    

BigWCat

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

Graduated from Texas A&M University with a BSEE and a MSEE from Southern Methodist University. I were a Hardware Engineer for 20 years for Defense and Telecom companies. Currently, developing window application softwares for Financial companies for 10 years so far and still growing strong. We used mostly Microsoft products. Also, developed Credit Modelling (Window Apps) for all the big banks (i.e Discover, Bank of america, Chase).

blaisem

	Founder
	United States

Even when developing isn't my job, it's my passion. When I don't know what I'm doing, I figure it out.

brandzter

	Product Manager Nextgen Media
	United States

I am a product manager at a software development company. i have 10+ year of development and project management experience. Currently I am learning windows Azure and trying to implement in our upcoming projects.

I am also a blogger and love to talk about development that can make this world a better place to live.

Brian Lakstins

	Software Developer (Senior) Lakstins Family, LLC
	United States

I like the term devops. I do system admin and development. I enjoy coming up with frameworks to make my development easier.

Brian Legg

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

My name is Brian Legg and I'm a .NET developer from Tallahassee, FL on a quest to learn all there is to know about designing software for the XBox 360, internet applications and mobile devices. After nearly 15 years of programming I've finally settled on the Microsoft stack as my weapon of choice in combating bad code. I'm interested in anything relating to .NET, SOA, or UI design.

BrianRosamilia

	United States

.NET Developer and blogger at newmodifier.com

C. Dunn

	United States

I am a professional software developer by day and an enthusiast software developer by night. When I'm not coding, I enjoy getting high scores in my favorite Xbox games, watching Fightin' Texas Aggie Football, and teaching my two children how to become great software engineers.

Carike van Staden

	Software Developer
	South Africa

No Biography provided

Carlos Sardo

	Netherlands

No Biography provided

CatDoor

	United States

No Biography provided

cdienhart

	Web Developer
	United States

No Biography provided

Christopher Burts

	United States

No Biography provided

corbormite

	United States

No Biography provided

Corey Hochman

	CEO
	United States

I am an Ophthalmologist (Eye Doctor) practicing in Phoenix, AZ.

ctechman

	Engineer Cvent
	India

I am chandan a part time blogger,Mobile apps Developer for windows phone and blackberry and currently working as Application Engineer in Cvent.I love to learn and implement new technologies and always remain open for new ideas and challenges.

cylentwolf2

	United States

No Biography provided

daylightdj

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

No Biography provided

deaon5

	Web Developer International Game Technology
	United States

No Biography provided

Ditoau

	Engineer
	Colombia

No Biography provided

DrABELL

	Founder Infosoft International Inc
	United States

Dr. Alexander Bell is a seasoned full-stack Software Engineer (Win/Web/Mobile). He holds PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, authored 37 inventions and published 300+ technical articles. Currently focused on multiple Android/Mobile development projects and Big Data' Machine Learning, AI, IoT. Alex participated in App Innovation Contests (AIC 2102/2013) with multiple winning submissions. Portfolio samples:

1. Educational Web Portal
2. NY Payroll Tax Calculator (#1 on Goog)
3. Android Fraction Calculator "Fractal MK-12"
4. Android Prime Factorization Calculator 18-digit)
5. Semafon™ semantic phone num-to-text converter
6. Real-time NY Bus Tracking Web App (IoT)
7. WebTV powered by YouTube .NET API (#1 on Goog)
8. Engineering Calculator VOLTA
9. Big Data: Facebook and YouTube
10. NY City Trivia Quiz
11. Publications by A. Bell

DRJanssen

	United States

No Biography provided

DThrasher

	Founder Infovark, Inc.
	United States

No Biography provided

Enrique Albert

	Software Developer (Senior)
	Ireland

No Biography provided

Faisal Mansoor

	Software Developer self employed
	United States

Faisal Mansoor is a software engineering at B-Line Medical. He has a Masters in Computer Science from George Mason University. He likes to explore new technologies, solve performance problems and work on concurrent and distributed applications. Most of his professional development experience is in C#, C++, Flex and SQL.

Farcus32

	Software Developer
	United States

No Biography provided

Florian Rappl

	Chief Technology Officer
	Germany

Florian lives in Munich, Germany. He started his programming career with Perl. After programming C/C++ for some years he discovered his favorite programming language C#. He did work at Siemens as a programmer until he decided to study Physics.

During his studies he worked as an IT consultant for various companies. After graduating with a PhD in theoretical particle Physics he is working as a senior technical consultant in the field of home automation and IoT.

Florian has been giving lectures in C#, HTML5 with CSS3 and JavaScript, software design, and other topics. He is regularly giving talks at user groups, conferences, and companies. He is actively contributing to open-source projects. Florian is the maintainer of AngleSharp, a completely managed browser engine.

flywheel

	Database Developer RKEY Toolmakers
	United States

Craig Simon is a self-employed Database Application Specialist. He's also an independent scholar with a BA in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and advanced degrees in International Studies from the University of Miami. His Master’s thesis focused on US Soviet technology transfer. His Ph.D. dissertation concerned Internet standards-making and the rise of Internet Governance. Craig experimented with programming during graduate school, writing WordPerfect macros to help add footnotes to his papers. He got hooked after learning to hack batch files in DOS. Now he's deeply addicted to SQL, and sampling harder stuff, like ASP.Net MVC. Craig currently lives in Dania Beach, Florida.

Craig occasionally goes by the handle "Flywheel" because he used to be a professional Frisbee player. He currently lives in Dania Beach, Florida.

freshbreeze

	Software Developer FreshBreeze Software Consultancy Services
	India

I'm a freelancer by profession, working mainly on .NET 2.0 and VB6 Technologies.

My core experience lies in working on application framework side and have created many off the shelf components in my projects.

I started my career on VB6 TAPI Application Development and from that, I've to software side completely.

Currently am taking projects from RentACoder.com and executing them on own.

Have a look at my website to know more about me.

GatisA

	Unknown

No Biography provided

Ghosh, Sumit

	CEO Globussoft
	United States

I have been in software industry for more than 5+ years, worked with some great developers. Have been a member and owner of various forums and blogs.
Developer and coder by choice.

Gianni RG

	Software Developer BEPS Engineering
	Italy

An Italian MSc Information Technology Engineer, Software Architect/Trainer/Consultant/Developer in BEPS Engineering (Microsoft Embedded Gold Partner) since 2007 and graduated at the Polytechnic of Turin in 2009.

Microsoft MVP for Windows Embedded since 2011.

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer in:
- Windows Store Apps using C#

Microsoft Specialist in:
- Programming in C#
- Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for:
- Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Windows Mobile 6.5
- Windows Embedded Standard 7
- .NET Framework 4 Applications

focusing also on Windows Store Apps development, Windows 8, mobile apps development for Windows Phone and the cloud, with a number of projects with Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, Umbraco CMS and Windows Azure.

GrapecityIndia

	United States

No Biography provided

Group type: Organisation (No members)

Griffin Fujioka

	Student
	United States

I am a software developer finishing up my degree at Washington State University. In December 2013 I'll be graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Math and MIS.

I've released a number of apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8 which remain my primary platforms.

Handy Torres

	Software Developer (Senior) JLT Interactive Pte Ltd
	Singapore

Handy Torres is a .NET developer from the Philippines currently living in Singapore and working for JLT Interactive Private Limited as Senior IT Consultant.

Hari Maurya

	Software Developer
	India

No Biography provided

Heiko Mohr

	Architect info@heikomohr.de
	Germany

No Biography provided

HelixTen

	CEO Helix Ten
	United States

I am the creator of last year contest winning app Loclville. I have been programming for 10+ years. I work as a software engineer at Sony Picture Imageworks. (One of the world largest effects house.) JavaScript and Python are my strongest languages, but I also use php and c#. I have created few app in the app stores for Windows 8, 7, Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Blackberry.

Henry Sheldon

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

Computers were my hobby before many had them in their homes. I've been programming in some fashion for over 20 years. I live in South Florida with my wife, my 3 year old daughter, and my 2 year old son. They keep us busy but when I do have personal time, I'm usually hacking away on some new technology.

"Capture the domain and the programming is easy" - unknown

Hisham Elbreky

	HP
	Egypt

No Biography provided

HTaylor

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

I've been programming in one form or another for more than 25 years, most recently in C# and MsSQL.
I'm co-organizer of the South Florida Windows 8 Developers Meetup Group which meets in Fort Lauderdale about once per month. I've got a mixed bag of professional programming experiences including a couple years in the payment processing industry and a couple decades in retail point of sale development.
I'm new to Azure but won't be for long.

Jack V. Vo

	CEO Vo4Tech LLC
	United States

I have been in the development world for the last 10 years since I start college and in love with it ever since. Currently I am a contractor for bus transportation company, a full time employee for the government and a CEO for my company Vo4Tech. I have been created application that mostly use in the industry that I can't disclose much information, but it include web services, database(Local and Server), VBA, and a lot of coding!

Our mission is to provide high quality, affordable computer consultant, on-site home pc support, web site design and promotion optimization services to any size home or business operating on tight budgets. This is a home-based computer repair service which allows for faster service.

jangooni

	United States

No Biography provided

Javier Villar

	Database Developer
	Peru

No Biography provided

JKeefer

	Software Developer Keefer Media
	United States

No Biography provided

jluhman

	Founder See Sharp Guys
	United States

Joe Luhman has nearly 20 years of experience developing software, primarily on the Microsoft stack, and has recently been focusing on building mobile applications for the newest mobile marketplace: the Windows 8 Store. His company, See Sharp Guys has 4 applications in the Windows 8 store, and has recently entered the Windows Phone 8 marketplace as well.

JoewyCodes

	Software Developer (Senior) Software Natives
	United States

No Biography provided

John Atten

	Software Developer XIV Solutions
	United States

My name is John Atten, and my username on many of my online accounts is xivSolutions. I am Fascinated by all things technology and software development. I work mostly with C#, Javascript/Node.js, Various flavors of databases, and anything else I find interesting. I am always looking for new information, and value your feedback (especially where I got something wrong!)

Jon Honess

	United States

No Biography provided

JonB3232

	Software Developer Symantec
	United States

I've been developing for the last few years professionally and recreationally. I'm a Software Engineer for Symantec where I develop for a few of their mainline products. My experience includes development in many spectrums of .NET including MVC, SharePoint and Azure development; as well as additional languages such as Java, Perl, HTML5 and JavaScript. I have two Microsoft certifications; one, for development in SharePoint 2010 (MCTS), and the other for programming in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 (MS). My interests are in cloud development and mobile development. Feel free to reach out to me for questions and/or advice.

Justin Frei

	Software Developer
	Canada

No Biography provided

Justin Wicker

	Software Developer Quicken Loans
	United States

No Biography provided

K2DaC2

	Team Leader
	Germany

Mobile Developer and Team Leader

Projects for / with kaufDA / Bonial International

Android Apps for Bonial International
Germany / kaufDA: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonial.kaufda
Russia: / Lokata : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.lokata.android
Brasil / Guiato : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.guiato.android
France / Bonial : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.bonial.android
Spain / Ofertia : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.ofertia.android

Windows Phone App for Bonial International
http://www.windowsphone.com/de-de/store/app/kaufda/baeb922d-eb82-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8

Windows 8 Apps
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/de-de/app/kaufda-navigator/08c5af55-d00b-4229-aaaf-590455937775
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/fr-fr/app/bonial-promos-et-catalogues/8fcf9bfa-0d0b-46f9-b27a-509ead7bed88
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/ru-RU/app/lokata/0d5c7a8e-284e-489c-bee6-bbca01e199f8
http://apps.samsung.com/earth/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?COUNTRY_CODE=DEU&productId=G00001914050&listYN=Y&_isAppsDep=Y

Own Projects:
QuizMix for Windows Phone (Silverlight, C#)
http://www.windowsphone.com/de-de/store/app/quizmix/054ffb61-9e93-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
518 Ratings, 4 1/2 Stars. More then 100.000 Downloads.

8 "Small" Apps for Blackberry10. Some Native (C++ / QNX, some Android Ports)
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/32338/?lang=en

Karlkim

	Software Developer
	United States

No Biography provided

katant

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United Kingdom

No Biography provided

Ken Cenerelli

	Software Developer
	Canada

I am a programmer writer, .NET developer, Microsoft MVP - .NET Platform, public speaker, blogger, and Microsoft Azure nerd.

I blog regularly at kencenerelli.wordpress.com and can be found on Twitter via @KenCenerelli.

Kyle Seidel

	Software Developer (Senior) Sogeti
	United States

No Biography provided

Mark Kestenbaum

	Software Developer (Senior)
	Israel

No Biography provided

MartinDGut

	United States

No Biography provided

Member 10020223

	Software Developer One Stop Designs
	United States

No Biography provided

Member 10022351

	Canada

No Biography provided

mf81

	United States

No Biography provided

Milan Shah

	Web Developer Virtual Scribe
	United States

No Biography provided

Mohammad A. Amer

	Software Developer (Senior) Perfect Presentation (2P)
	Egypt

I am a Geek of Software Engineering from Egypt. I started my Career from Programming in ASP and now working as
.NET/SharePoint Senior Developer. I always been towards Microsoft Technologies. My other hobbies are traveling, Internet, spending time with family and hang out with friends.

Mohan Mallampalli

	Software Developer Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd[EENADU]
	India

No Biography provided

Nick Stenroos-Dam

	Denmark

No Biography provided

nicks707

	Software Developer
	India

A young enthusiastic budding entrepreneur.
-- Interned with Google Lunar X prize contender as a research assistant
-- Worked with various Indian startups as a tech lead (CTO).
-- 3 years of experience in developing software applications and mobile apps.
-- find my github repo at https://github.com/nicks707
-- Good command over C#, Java and Python also good designing and simulation knowledge (Maya , solidworks and photoshop)

--working forward with my own startup as CEO (started in snophomore year ofcollege now very close to launch)
-- MIT accelerator intern
--> Imagine Cup semi finalist 2012
--> Working in Qualcomm X prize as a participating team.

Nidhin Pattaniyil

	Student
	United States

No Biography provided

NimDriz

	United States

No Biography provided

Ninad K

	Software Developer student
	India

No Biography provided

Omar Al Zabir

	Architect BT, UK (ex British Telecom)
	United Kingdom

I am: Head of Engineering Consumer CRM & Billing, BT (ex British Telecom).
I got: 11 Microsoft MVP Awards, 4 CodeProject MVP awards.
I like: Performance and Scalability Challenges.
My Book: Building a Web 2.0 portal using ASP.NET 3.5. Also on Amazon
My Blog: http://omaralzabir.com
My Specialization: Web 2.0, SaaS, Performance and Scalability of Web Apps.
My Email: OmarALZabir at gmail dot com

Follow Me: twitter.com/omaralzabir

My Projects:
Droptiles: Open Source Web 2.0 AJAX Portal
SQL Server real-time monitor
Oracle real-time monitor
Codeuml - UML diagrams as fast as you can type
Fastest Streaming AJAX Proxy
CPU Alerter - Save power, work faster


My Articles:
Top 10 caching mistakes
99.99% Available Production Architecture
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets
UFrame: UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined
Fast ASP.NET web page loading
Fast Streaming AJAX Proxy
Using COM safely inside "using" block without requiring interop assembly
Implementing Word Like Automation Model
Distributed Command Pattern

Patrick McCurley

	Software Developer
	United Kingdom

I am a software engineer residing in Birmingham, UK.

Spending my time building anything and everything on the .net stack, I am is currently employed as a C# .Net engineer building shiny things on Windows 8 and tablets. My particular interests lie in anything design related, big data, artificial intelligence algorithms and any emerging technologies.

Paul Blair

	Fairlie Agile
	New Zealand

No Biography provided

Pavan Wadawadagi

	India

No Biography provided

pawel_sawicz

	United States

No Biography provided

Phil Lee NZ

	Software Developer (Senior)
	New Zealand

I'm a software developer based in the beautiful city of Wellington, New Zealand. I love experimenting with new .Net technologies as they arrive, and these days there seems to be a lot of choice as there are so many new features in the framework! My current interests are Azure, ASP.Net MVC, SignalR, Knockout, AngularJS, and responsive design (inc. using Bootstrap, Foundation, Skeleton). These change fairly often as I tinker with various new technologies...

Pointe Smart

	United States

Pointe Smart is a master of cloud technology.

Using our experience and depth of knowledge we help clients navigate the decisions necessary to chart their own course. We help you plan and implement the right strategy for your company. We make it possible for your IT departments to focus on technology users & for technology users to focus on the business.

Today’s networks & applications are complex and always changing. Maintaining your information systems and staying current is no small task. Choosing the right tools and processes can significantly impact how your business functions.

Pointe Smart’s commitment to creating value comes from great relationships with both clients and business partners. We leverage the technologies of our business partners, those that continually demonstrate the same commitment to value.

PRANAV SINGH

	India

No Biography provided

PraveenOjha

	Chief Technology Officer InductionLabs
	India

Currently I am an independent developer usually develops under brand name Induction games sometimes under Induction labs ,Can say that I am professionally developing apps for more than 4 years .

Some links to my apps in different apps stores are ..


Windows Phone
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/store/publishers?publisherId=InductionGames

Android
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Induction+Labs&hl=en
2.https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Induction%20Games

Blackberry Store
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/39848/?lang=en

Flash Games :
http://www.mochigames.com/developer/praveenojha/
*my flash portal is no longer active so the quiz game cant be played .

Perceptual computing phase 1 first prize Winner app (air piano)
http://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/perceptualshowcase/air-piano.htm

My Blog
http://praveenojha.com

radv

	Chief Technology Officer RadventureSoft LLC
	United States

Enterprise ISV leader and chief architect of enterprise software systems. Original architect and developer of the TriZetto Facets software system for the Healthcare Payor marketplace. 20+ years experience in all aspects of software development and hosting services. My passion is in developing rock-solid software patterns and applying them to the ever changing technologies to provide solutions that last. Foundations, Frameworks, Code-Generation, Architecture Placement and selecting the right technology are all criticle to developing systems that stand the test of time.

Rahul Manekari

	Software Developer (Senior)
	India

https://rahul.im

Rajiv Charan Tej K

	Web Developer Cadsys India
	India

No Biography provided

Randall Smith II

	Software Developer Rio National Insurance
	United States

I am an avid technology enthusiast and coder for 15+ years. Started developing applications using QBasic on Windows 3.1 machines and have not stopped since. Currently I manage several large databases as well as the front end web pages/applications that access them. I also develop standalone tools used in managing various aspects of the services. I have several side projects that I have been part of over the years some of them small, and some of the more current ones larger in scope. Feel free to ask questions or drop suggestions to me as I am always learning new ways to do things.

Ranjan.D

	Web Developer
	United States

Profile

Around 10 years of professional software development experience in analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of enterprise web applications for healthcare domain with good exposure to object-oriented design, software architectures, design patterns, test-driven development and agile practices.

In Brief

Analyse and create High Level , Detailed Design documents.
Use UML Modelling and create Use Cases , Class Diagram , Component Model , Deployment Diagram, Sequence Diagram in HLD.

Area of Working : Dedicated to Microsoft .NET Technologies
Experience with : C# , J2EE , J2ME, Windows Phone 8, Windows Store App
Proficient in: C# , XML , XHTML, XML, HTML5, Javascript, Jquery, CSS, SQL, LINQ, EF

Software Development

Database: Microsoft SQL Server, FoxPro
Development Frameworks: Microsoft .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.5
UI: Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC3, MVC4
Coding: WinForm , Web Development, Windows Phone, WinRT Programming, WCF, WebAPI

Healthcare Domain Experience

CCD, CCR, QRDA, HIE, HL7 V3, Healthcare Interoperability

Education

B.E (Computer Science)

CodeProject Contest So Far:

1. Windows Azure Developer Contest - HealthReunion - A Windows Azure based healthcare product , link - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/582535/HealthReunion-A-Windows-Azure-based-healthcare-pro

2. DnB Developer Contest - DNB Business Lookup and Analytics , link - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/618344/DNB-Business-Lookup-and-Analytics

3. Intel Ultrabook Contest - Journey from development, code signing to publishing my App to Intel AppUp , link - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/517482/Journey-from-development-code-signing-to-publishin

4. Intel App Innovation Contest 2013 - eHealthCare

5. Grand Prize Winner of CodeProject HTML5 &CSS3 Article Contest 2014

6. Grand Prize Winner of CodeProject Android Article Contest 2014

7. Grand Prize Winner of IOT on Azure Contest 2015

Rankable Vikas

	Technical Lead
	India

A technomaniac, animal lover, PHP programmer from Hyderabad, India. I am working with Open Source Solutions last 2+ years. I love experimenting with PHP, I think it's one of the most powerful yet highly underestimated languages on the web today.

Ravi Gadag

	Software Developer Symphony Teleca
	India

No Biography provided

Rawat Sandeep

	Software Developer (Senior)
	India

No Biography provided

Rebrandone

	Chief Technology Officer Rebrandone
	United States

No Biography provided

Robert William Gates

	United States

No Biography provided

robert.williamson_sogeti

	United States

No Biography provided

rodney128

	United States

No Biography provided

Roman Kiss

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

No Biography provided

roscler

	Software Developer Android Technologies, Inc.
	United States

Robert Oschler is a veteran artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, and speech recognition programmer. His latest love is C#/.NET programming, especially on the Windows Phone platform. When not writing code you can find him playing guitar or watching the latest videos on MSDN's Channel 9. He is also a member of the incredible Nokia DVLUP program and owes much of his affection for Windows Phone programming to the wonderfully talented and enthusiastic Nokia Ambassadors.

Rumnha

	Technical Lead
	India

No Biography provided

Sagar B. shelar

	Software Developer
	India

No Biography provided

Sam Calma

	Web Developer
	United States

No Biography provided

Scott B Smith

	Founder coderbits
	United States

Scott Smith is the founder of coderbits, senior director of software development at Front Porch, Inc, and a scuba diving developer extraordinaire.

Shayne P Boyer

	United States

I work on Azure, ASP.NET Core content and Open Source, speak at national and community events while helping teams architect web and cloud applications.

Simon Jackson

	Architect ZenithMoon Studios
	United Kingdom

Long time game developer / IT maniac.
By day working as a lowly Technical Architect for a healthcare software firm, by night Masquerading as the Master Chief of ZenithMoon Studios.

At heart I'm a community developer breaking down lots of fun and curious technologies and bringing them to the masses.

I'm also a contributor to several open source projects, most notably the AdRotator advertising rotator project for Windows and Windows Phone.

After a hefty break with Windows Phone and Windows 8 I'm heading back to my XNA roots to show how beginners and current XNA devs can take their skills forward with XNA's bleak future.

ID&Xbox MVP & Best selling author
[Mastering Unity 2D Game Development] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/mastering-unity-2d-game-development)
[Unity 3D UI Essentials] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-3d-gui-essentials)

Somesh Vyas

	Student n/a
	India

cool loving guy with respect for others, nature loving person, fond of solving problems etc

Stan Bice

	Software Developer (Senior) Applied Information Sciences, Inc.
	United States

Stan is a Senior Software Engineer with Applied Information Sciences (AIS). He has been delivering software solutions for over 20 years in a variety of industries. Currently, he focuses on designing and developing database solutions, mainly with Microsoft SQL Server. Stan has experience using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Integration Services (SSIS) and Analysis Services (SSAS), including using the MDX query language. He is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional in Business Intelligence Developer 2008 and is a Microsoft Specialist in Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3. Stan is also a technical reviewer for Manning Press and has reviewed several very successful and popular programming books. Stan is a Christian, a family man and is active in his church. Stan lives with his family in the beautiful Annapolis, MD area.

Steen Hulthin

	Denmark

Software developer since 2008, freelancer since 2011.

Steve Maier

	Team Leader EmployeeChannel Inc
	United States

No Biography provided

stevehiner

	Software Developer Integrated Solutions, Inc.
	United States

I started writing BASIC at age 10 on a TRS-80. After a long hiatus I found myself in FORTRAN classes in college while getting my Civil Engineering degree and I was hooked. I'd often find reasons to write code just for fun. Either writing batch files to optimize a process or tweaking RPN code in my HP calculator I just loved to write code. I made the switch to become a full-time software developer in 1997 and it's been awesome.

I work for a small systems integration company. That has given me the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects convering a broad spectrum but mostly centered around Microsoft technologies. I've written Access and ASP.Net based stock trading apps (that my client used in such a way that the government shut them down, little did I know). I've written a machine vision app used to help align micron-scale targets on flat panel displays. From embedded WinCE code that controlled vending machines, copiers and laundry rooms to an ASP.Net MVC site used to track the movements of security guards on the job. The next job can be wildly different from the last and that's just the way I like it.

Most of my work lately has been in C# either in WinForms or ASP.Net MVC and WebForms. For fun I've written some Windows Phone apps and I've started dabbling in Node.js.

Super Nubes

	United States

No Biography provided

Group type: Organisation (No members)

Tass Iliopoulos

	Web Developer
	Australia

No Biography provided

The Stonx

	United States

I'm an entry level software developer looking forward to get better!

TheBlueSky.Net

	United Arab Emirates

No Biography provided

Tim Corey

	Software Developer (Senior) DeGarmo
	United States

I am currently a Senior Software Developer at a company in Illinois called DeGarmo. My primary skills are in .NET, SQL, JavaScript, and other web technologies although I have worked with PowerShell, C, and Java as well.

In my previous positions, I have worked as a lead developer, professor and IT Director. As such, I have been able to develop software on a number of different types of systems and I have learned how to correctly oversee the overall direction of technology for an organization. I've developed applications for everything from machine automation to complete ERP systems.

I enjoy taking hard subjects and making them easy to understand for people unfamiliar with the topic.

Tom White2

	United States

No Biography provided

TYoungjr

	Software Developer
	United States

I’ve been writing professionally for over a year and have over six years of professional IT experience. I’ve worked with firms such as Grant Thornton and Trading Technologies. I’ve also garnered experience from my time as a government contractor. I’ve demonstrated proficiency at professional software development, writing technical documentation and writing proposals for agencies such as Patent Trade Office and Dept. of Defense. I’m familiar programming languages and style guides including: C#, Java, Scala , and the Yahoo! style guide.

VijayaMalla

	Software Developer (Senior)
	United States

Follow me here : @mvsaradhi

Vn-ABC

	United States

No Biography provided

wilfriedwoivre

	Unknown

No Biography provided

wniroshan

	Software Developer Creative Search Technolgies
	Sri Lanka

No Biography provided

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Spot Challenge - Stage 4 - Extended! Chris Maunder2-Jun-13 18:13 Chris Maunder 2-Jun-13 18:13  **Update 9 July, 2013** The $20 bonus offer for signing up to the Windows Azure Trial is now over. To be eligible for the bonus you had to send us your confirmation emails and screenshots before the contest ended on June 30, 2013 at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. Any confirmations received after this date are invalid and no $20 bonus will be awarded. Thank you for your participation. This stage revolves around VMs, and so we've been toying around with ideas on load testing - a favourite bugbear of mine when it comes to VMs. Our ideas seemed a little complicated when we suddenly got an unexpected extra lump of prize money - over $40,000 extra prize money . We looked at each other and realised that there's a great way to give away that cash quickly to lots of people while also stress testing an Azure service. Microsoft's service, to be exact. The challenge: Sign up for an Azure trial [^]and get $20. The Details: So yes, pretty easy, but: a) We want you to sign up as close as possible to 12PM US Eastern Daylight time each day of this week (ends Jun 9th when the Azure challenge ends!) b) We want you to bring your friends. Lots of them. They get $20 too, and the more you bring the more you get - Bring in 10 friends and get a bonus of $100 - Bring in 20 friends and get a bonus of $250 - bring in 50 friends and get a bonus of $750 You can only win one bonus (ie bringing in 40 doesn't give you 2 x 20 friend bonuses) c) The first person who gets a server error or server busy screen wins a Surface RT, same as the stage prize Surface's. You'll need to send clear proof that your signup caused a server issue. We will confer with Microsoft to corroborate your claims. Send your confirmation emails to contest@codeproject.com The Fine Print 1. You need to email us proof that you signed up. A screen grab of the signup screen with your email address, or the confirmation email you received. 2. If you can't hit signup at midday exactly, or you get timezones wrong or it's just bad timing for you we'll still honour the $20 spot prize no matter what time you actually sign up. Hitting the servers at the same time as everyone else increases your chances of the Server Fault Spot Prize (ie the Surface). 3. To get the flash mob friend bonuses, your friends need to include your email address in their confirmation email so we know they are part of your group. A person can only be in one group. 4. You need a credit card to sign up, but that card won't be charged if you cancel. Even better: Microsoft have set the default spending limit on new accounts to $0, so even if you forget to cancel your free trial your card will not be charged. 5. We will be awarding a maximum of 1850 $20 sign-up prizes. As soon as we hit signup #1850 the challenge ends. 6. All winners are on a first come, first served basis. Get your confirmation emails in quickly. Any of your friends who send in their confirmations after the challenge ends (or the 1850 prizes are won) will not count towards your bonus pool. Get your friends organised! 7. Payment is via PayPal, so include your PayPal account email in your confirmation email so we can award prizes, please. 8. We reserve the right to update the rules in order to clarify and enforce the spirit of this challenge. A warning Don't try and create lots of accounts using the same credit card. This may get you kicked from Azure and goes against the spirit of this spot challenge. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP modified 9-Jul-13 13:43pm. How to make the judges happy and get a great score Chris Maunder17-May-13 1:53 Chris Maunder 17-May-13 1:53  There are a lot of entrants in this competition so can I please ask two things: 1. Your application is important. Please place a link to your Azure app at the very top of your article. If the judges can't find your application we can't score it. 2. Break up your article into clear sections (Starting up, the website, Data etc) and in each section explain what you have done, how it ties to your application, and then (and only then) dive into the how-to's You entries will be scored according to (among other things) 1. How well you complete the challenges 2. The quality and cohesiveness of your final creation 3. How useful and readable was your write up. 4. The technical aspects of your code 5. The X-factor. Innovation, craziness, surprises, or something as simple as how much of a joy it was to use your app and read your write up. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP If you already have an Azure account Chris Maunder28-Apr-13 9:50 Chris Maunder 28-Apr-13 9:50  As has already been mentioned, you can use your existing Azure account from your MSDN or BizSpark benefits. If, however, you have signed up for a free trial and that's expired, you need to either sign up for a paid account, or better yet (from a payment point of view), create a new Microsoft ID for this contest and use that to create a new free Azure trial. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP And the Grand Prize Winner is... Kevin Priddle5-Jul-13 14:16 Kevin Priddle 5-Jul-13 14:16  Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner Phil Lee NZ for his entry YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool[^]. Big thanks to everyone who took part in the challenge. We hope you'll join us again soon in one of our many other developer competitions and contests![^] Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... AspDotNetDev5-Jul-13 14:29 AspDotNetDev 5-Jul-13 14:29  That is one epic Azure article. I hope I can find time to read the whole thing... I have no idea how Phil managed to write it all in under a year. Congrats to him. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut! Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... roscler5-Jul-13 14:47 roscler 5-Jul-13 14:47  Congratulations Phil! You deserve it. A huge thank you to Chris, Natasha, and the newly arrived Kevin for such an amazing contest. Please hold more. -- roschler Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... Phil Lee NZ5-Jul-13 19:12 Phil Lee NZ 5-Jul-13 19:12  Thanks Kevin, the rest of the CodeProject team, and Microsoft for putting on such a fun competition. Thanks also to all of the other entrants, who both amazed and inspired me to push on right to the end As a first-time article writer it was a bit of a learning curve, but definitely worth it. To all the other competitors - time to brush off the old CVs and add Azure to the toolbelt yeah?! Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... AspDotNetDev8-Jul-13 6:51 AspDotNetDev 8-Jul-13 6:51  Phil Lee NZ wrote: time to brush off the old CVs and add Azure to the toolbelt yeah?! I hadn't even thought of that! I suppose I can say that I "know" Azure now. Though I bet if I were to go on a job hunt right now and show that on my resume, I'd get the ol' "but have you actually used it on the job?" Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut! Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... Patrick McCurley5-Jul-13 22:18 Patrick McCurley 5-Jul-13 22:18  Great Job Phil, well done! Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... Ranjan.D6-Jul-13 0:49 Ranjan.D 6-Jul-13 0:49  Well done Phil Lee, I'm proud of you since from the beginning I came to know about you through your contribution. You were truly are deserved person. There are lot of things one can learn from your article , clean code with unit testing etc. Thanks, Ranjan.D Re: And the Grand Prize Winner is... Abhishek Nandy6-Jul-13 9:37 Abhishek Nandy 6-Jul-13 9:37  Congrats Phil!! That's a gem of an article...Well Done.. Congrats Stage 5 Winners! Kevin Priddle3-Jul-13 3:27 Kevin Priddle 3-Jul-13 3:27  Congrats to all the Stage 5 winners! Enrique Albert - LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud[^] Phil Lee - YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool[^] Ranjan.D - HealthReunion - A Windows Azure based healthcare product[^] Congrats also go out to Roscler for winning a bonus for 10 Windows Azure trial referrals in the Stage 4 Spot Challenge and to Nick Fera for winning the Server Fault Spot Prize and being the first person to get a server error or server busy screen on the Windows Azure sign-up page. If you took part in the Stage 4 Spot Challenge (which we extended into Stage 5) you can expect your $20 bonus to be credited to your PayPal account within the next 1-2 weeks. Lastly, a big thanks to everyone that has taken part in the Windows Azure Developer Challenge. Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the grand prize winner later week! Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Re: Congrats Stage 5 Winners! roscler3-Jul-13 3:58 roscler 3-Jul-13 3:58  Thanks Kevin and congratulations to the stage prize winners. -- roschler Got my Third Round Spot Prize but didnot get the First round one Abhishek Nandy27-Jun-13 4:08 Abhishek Nandy 27-Jun-13 4:08  Hi, I got my third spot challenge prize cheque yesterday,Thanks for that .But still now I haven't got my first round spot prize cheque? anybody same case?I mailed Natasha about just awaiting response.I could not complete my particle just updating my work as my trial of Windows Azure expired.Thanks again for people associated with the Windows Azure Challenge it was amazing and best of luck to all Re: Got my Third Round Spot Prize but didnot get the First round one Kevin Priddle27-Jun-13 12:26 Kevin Priddle 27-Jun-13 12:26  Hi Abhishek. Glad you enjoyed the challenge and won some prizes in process! I'll look into what happened with the First Round prize and get back to you as soon as I find out more. Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Judging has commenced! Kevin Priddle25-Jun-13 10:01 Kevin Priddle 25-Jun-13 10:01  Big thanks to everyone who took part in the Windows Azure Developer Challenge! Judging has now commenced! I'm not sure exactly when we'll be done all the judging, but we'll keep you updated and hope to have something posted by next week with all the winners. In the mean time, the Stage 4 Spot Challenge to sign up for the Azure trial and to get your friends to sign up has been extended and is still ongoing until June 30. I'm sure you've all taken advantage of the $20 bonus for signing up yourself, but there are still bonuses to be won for getting your friends to sign up too. If you bring in 10 friends get a $100 bonus, bring in 20 friends get a $250 bonus, or bring in 50 friends and get a $750 bonus. Just make sure you read for the fine print and rules[^] to make sure you're doing the trial sign-ups and referrals properly. Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Re: Judging has commenced! AspDotNetDev25-Jun-13 11:21 AspDotNetDev 25-Jun-13 11:21  It's definitely been a great experience. I probably would have never had the motivation to write the article I did without this competition, so thanks for that. I won't be winning the contest, but I'm sure I'll improve my article at some point so that people actually want to read it and can get some use from it. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut! Re: Judging has commenced! Kevin Priddle26-Jun-13 7:18 Kevin Priddle 26-Jun-13 7:18  Never say never ! Thanks for participating! Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Re: Judging has commenced! ambilykk25-Jun-13 18:02 ambilykk 25-Jun-13 18:02  Thanks a lot of organizing this contest. It enabled me to understand that I am still a newie in Azure and there is lot more to learn. Moreover, I have learned a lot about LightSwitch HTML5 client based applications. Thanks a lot for the great learning and great articles. Ambily Re: Judging has commenced! Kevin Priddle26-Jun-13 7:19 Kevin Priddle 26-Jun-13 7:19  Thanks for taking part in the challenges Ambily! Glad to hear you had a great time and learned some new things in the process. Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Re: Judging has commenced! ambilykk2-Jul-13 18:51 ambilykk 2-Jul-13 18:51  Congratulations to all 5th Stage Winners. Please refer the winning articles along with Winners names, which will help us to refer the articles and gain more knowledge. Thanks Ambily Re: Judging has commenced! Kevin Priddle3-Jul-13 3:27 Kevin Priddle 3-Jul-13 3:27  Good idea! I just posted them in a comment above Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media Fourth and Fifth Stage Spot Winners? GrapecityIndia24-Jun-13 22:19 GrapecityIndia 24-Jun-13 22:19  Who all are Fourth and Fifth Stage Spot Winners ? Re: Fourth and Fifth Stage Spot Winners? Tim Corey25-Jun-13 2:09 Tim Corey 25-Jun-13 2:09  Chris posted above that the fourth stage spot prize is still going on (through the 30th I believe). Since the prize amounts for referrals cannot be known until the end of the stage, there isn't really anything they can post yet. If you turned in your Azure registration, you definitely won the $20. As for the fifth stage spot prize, I don't believe there was one (if there was, I missed it entirely). Re: Fourth and Fifth Stage Spot Winners? Kevin Priddle25-Jun-13 10:07 Kevin Priddle 25-Jun-13 10:07  Hey guys sorry for any confusion. There wasn't a new "Fifth Stage Spot Challenge" so you didn't miss anything Tim. We just extended the Fourth Stage Challenge until June 30 and that's why it's listed as "Fourth and Fifth Stage Spot Winners". The prize for getting a "server error" or "server busy" message has been completed and we've had at least one person become eligible for the $100 bonus for signing up 10 friends (and they're getting close to 20). Once the final winners from Stage 5 have been picked and the $20 trial sign-up bonus/challenge ends on June 30 we'll update the page with all the proper winners. Hope that clears things up! Kevin Priddle Editor and Special Projects Manager | Developer Media

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