Who won the VISTA API competition ?
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While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled.
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled.
Missed your correct fact by that much, Maxwell Smart[^]
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I was in france at the time, hence my complete mental brain fog. Jeff just sent me the scoop: Certified For Vista: How to ensure an application gets certified- by Simon Williams. http://www.codeproject.com/vista/Certified\_for\_Vista.asp Cancelled?? It was announced in the newsletter[^]. -- modified at 8:34 Thursday 30th August, 2007
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Cancelled?? It was announced in the newsletter[^].
Hey Chris, I remember seeing that, but I thought he was the 6th monthly winner (like the previous 5). And Ian Davis who won the Vista API Competition for his article, Vista-themed Owner-drawn and Full-custom Task Buttons & Task Dialogs. Ian won himself an HD Xbox 360 prize pack! Because this page : http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Vista/[^] says :- The top winner each month will receive an HD Xbox 360 prize pack, including: And it specifically says this :- Of the six monthly winners, our judges will choose a final grand prize winner. This grand prize winner will have submitted the article that best shows off the Vista APIs. All decisions are final. The grand prize winner will receive a Sony Home Theater System, including: So does this mean Ian Davis was the 6th monthly winner and he also won the grand prize? If so it was not very clear from the newsletter. Because there was no mention of the Sony home theatre system.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled.
Missed your correct fact by that much, Maxwell Smart[^]
"We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information." - Neal Stephenson
Jerry Hammond wrote:
Missed your correct fact by that much, Maxwell Smart[^]
What?
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Certified For Vista: How to ensure an application gets certified- by Simon Williams. http://www.codeproject.com/vista/Certified_for_Vista.asp[^] -- corrected at 8:34 Thursday 30th August, 2007
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Erm, not that I know of. I only won the last of monthly contests & got an XBox 360 (which was still very very cool)! -- Ian
ied wrote:
Erm, not that I know of. I only won the last of monthly contents & got an XBox 360 (which was still very very cool)!
That was what I said in my original post too :- While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled. You were a monthly winner like Rama and Quartz and Mike Dunn. I don't remember an announcement where the grand prize winner was announced.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Cancelled?? It was announced in the newsletter[^].
Hey Chris, I remember seeing that, but I thought he was the 6th monthly winner (like the previous 5). And Ian Davis who won the Vista API Competition for his article, Vista-themed Owner-drawn and Full-custom Task Buttons & Task Dialogs. Ian won himself an HD Xbox 360 prize pack! Because this page : http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Vista/[^] says :- The top winner each month will receive an HD Xbox 360 prize pack, including: And it specifically says this :- Of the six monthly winners, our judges will choose a final grand prize winner. This grand prize winner will have submitted the article that best shows off the Vista APIs. All decisions are final. The grand prize winner will receive a Sony Home Theater System, including: So does this mean Ian Davis was the 6th monthly winner and he also won the grand prize? If so it was not very clear from the newsletter. Because there was no mention of the Sony home theatre system.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
Well, if I did they never told me. I always figured it'd been Quartz who got the grand prize. I'm still extremely happy with the XBox 360. No doubt Microsoft also, considering how many games I've bought since. :-D -- Ian
ied wrote:
Well, if I did they never told me. I always figured it'd been Quartz who got the grand prize.
Oh ok - well I don't know about that.
ied wrote:
I'm still extremely happy with the XBox 360. No doubt Microsoft also, considering how many games I've bought since.
Nice :-) I am not much of a gamer, but maybe if I actually had an Xbox sitting at home, I'd try a few games out too.
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Hey guys Was curious who won the $ 10,000 award for vista competition I never found out ? Where is that announced ? Was that ever announced ? Long weekend coming soon :)
erm...how many of us actually have vista? let alone code in it Bryce
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If you have to ask, it wasn't you... hehe... :laugh:
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I was in france at the time, hence my complete mental brain fog. Jeff just sent me the scoop: Certified For Vista: How to ensure an application gets certified- by Simon Williams. http://www.codeproject.com/vista/Certified\_for\_Vista.asp Cancelled?? It was announced in the newsletter[^]. -- modified at 8:34 Thursday 30th August, 2007
cheers, Chris Maunder
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thanks for your message that was monthly prize of XBOX 360 my question was the grand prize ? "Grand prize winner Of the six monthly winners, our judges will choose a final grand prize winner. This grand prize winner will have submitted the article that best shows off the Vista APIs. All decisions are final. The grand prize winner will receive a Sony Home Theater System, including: Sony 46" BRAVIA™ Flat-panel LCD Television (KDL-46V2500) Sony Integrated Home Theater System (DAV-DX375) Prize valued at approximately $4000.00 US. Offer void where prohibited. We reserve the right to substitute similar products at similar values based on availability. " From here[^]
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While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkHey Nish Yes, Actually i remembered this, because of one of your old post (2 months ago i think), where you had links of all the participants and you were also anticipating the results .
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled.
Missed your correct fact by that much, Maxwell Smart[^]
"We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information." - Neal Stephenson
Now i know where you got all the "smarts"
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Well, if I did they never told me. I always figured it'd been Quartz who got the grand prize. I'm still extremely happy with the XBox 360. No doubt Microsoft also, considering how many games I've bought since. :-D -- Ian
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ied wrote:
Erm, not that I know of. I only won the last of monthly contents & got an XBox 360 (which was still very very cool)!
That was what I said in my original post too :- While the six individual winners were announced each month, the final winner was never announced. It seems to me the idea for a grand prize winner was cancelled. You were a monthly winner like Rama and Quartz and Mike Dunn. I don't remember an announcement where the grand prize winner was announced.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkSo the grand prize, the SONY stuff, was simply a lie? Poor Ian...
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Hey Nish Yes, Actually i remembered this, because of one of your old post (2 months ago i think), where you had links of all the participants and you were also anticipating the results .
DeepWaters wrote:
Hey Nish Yes, Actually i remembered this, because of one of your old post (2 months ago i think), where you had links of all the participants and you were also anticipating the results .
Yes - and I had not got any reply for that thread back then. Glad someone remembered.
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So the grand prize, the SONY stuff, was simply a lie? Poor Ian...
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandRohde wrote:
So the grand prize, the SONY stuff, was simply a lie? Poor Ian...
I wouldn't say that it was a lie - I believe the terms and conditions allow the grand prize to be cancelled, and I thought perhaps because there were not enough number of Vista contributions that the grand prize was cancelled. But after seeing Chris's reply above, it now seems as if Chris and Dave just forgot about it. So perhaps one of those six winners will now get lucky and get that Sony system :-)
Regards, Nish
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