Tell Us Your Express Story and Win $100!

Tell Us Your Express Story and Win $100!

• SnowFiveOfNine

  This whole thing just up and disappeared, didn't it

  I was one of the first in line to have a story published (about my hobby project Comicster). I had a long exchange with one of the folks researching stories. That was back when the promotion was first announced - over a year ago.

  After several months of not hearing anything I emailed one of the coding4fun guys, who got back to me saying that he'd forwarded my message onto someone closer to the Heroes promotion. Never heard anything there either.

  I really wanted to get that story out there, as much for publicity for Comicster as for the $100 Amazon voucher. I doubt I'll ever hear back from anyone about it, and I wonder why this forum thread is still sticky.

  Matt

  
  

• flynhigh

  You want to know a cool way to use Visual Studio Express or SQL Server Express! Somehow I agree – doing XNA - using C# is must. Other usage is learning and it is perhaps the most the Microsoft want for all of us. Once in the hook, then … you know the result. It’s not bad, if you money is not involved in the business (without the Microsoft efforts and peanuts). Every company cries after better licensing conditions and knowledge of internals and (predictable) future. It seems, after Linux and Windows marriage, that we have no other way to develop mass hits than go with Microsoft and its language/document specifications. May be databases are the area, where Microsoft wishes to get bigger market share, but then it goes political ground and Europeans will not accept one leader in the their key business.

  Peca

  
  
  

• chandan_chandan

  I started coding in .net since May 2007. I recently installed VS2008 in my system and when I try to open a VS2005.sln file in VS2008 there is a coversion wizard started. This was similar to VS2003 application opened in VS2005. But here once I open my application in VS2005 it doesn't allow me to open in VS2003. It is the same case here.

  Once you open in VS2008, you cannot open in VS2005.

  I found out a small solution for this. When you open VS2003 application in VS2005 and then if you want to reopen the application in VS2003, we make changes to .sln file. Here is the same case in VS2008.

  Here only one modification is done in the conversion wizard

  ie Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 9.00

  to

  Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00.

  This is the only change made .......unlike in VS2003 to VS2005 there are couple of more changes done. Here is a suggestion for you guys...........Before you open your VS2005 in VS2008 copy and paste your .sln file in the same folder with different name.

  ex: Copy WindowsFormsApplication1.sln to WindowsFormsApplication12008.sln in the same folder. Then open the .sln file in notepad and then change 9.00 to 10.00 as shown above.

  This is the cool stuff isn't it.

  Thanks

  santosh

  
  
  

• Paolo72

  Hello!

  First of all, I am a Microsoft fan since 1996, when I couldn't sleep in one night, being so happy that tomorrow (at that time) I'll try the newly installed Windows 95 I switched from Windows 3.11, which was great also!

  In '98 I began wondering how that amazing stuff (operating system, programs, games) were made! I started coding at the age of 13 in Turbo Pascal.

  Going forward in time, in 2006 I wanted to code much more easy and faster than I could do in C++ or old Pascal and I needed some tool to do it. Thanks to my college's MSDNAA program (damn helpful!) I was the "happy downloader" of an Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, in which I started coding.

  It's amazing how easy that was (drag and drop and just a few lines of code), thanks to those video tutorials from Beginner Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/beginner

  Now, Visual Studio 2008 is out and I am a really happy user of Visual C# 2008 Express Edition in combination with Web Developer Express Edition and also, a great and funny tool - Microsoft Popfly! Can't wait until SQL 2008 is out and also, more blocks on Popfly!

  Cheers!

  
  
  

• Mark Greene

  Hello. I want to say "thankyou" the developer team and Microsoft, who has made the release of the VWD available to any user. Since we are a small business i Sweden and the cost of Visual studio is big, it's easier and sheaper getting started with Visual Studio Express, and this is a great opportunity for us to get involvled and a great experience for us all in our company.

  Earlier in our webdevelopment we used regular ASP to create our projects. Since the release of VWD, we develop all our projects in VWD. This is really a great product. Our new CMS i totally built in ASP.NET and C# , the main database is XML in our standard CMS, since there is this really great XMLserielizer. This is big step for our products, and the main thing is, -Now it's fun to make webapplications. Our CMS is now our main product and our customer think that what we deliver is a nice application that work as a charm.

  - A dedicated fan of this really great development tool.
  

  
  
  

• Spamsickle

   

  This it is certainly a very good idea to improve the product.

  *** If you make the same offer to Excel (with c#,c++..etc).... I would be able to write an EXCELent adventure book for you ! :)

  Regards,

  Fabio

  
  

• Kalexin

  hello!

  First of all i wld like to thank all those people involved in developing a cool Platform like .Net framework. Infact we are working on a Project concerned Medical image processing ,which involves a lot of GUI developments and infact a lot of debugging.

  But the best thing abt the whole project is we are using Visual c#.Net ,and that's of been gr8 help to us in developing, standard GUI's .Our works' been made easy . Hats off to .NET Framework.

  thanks and regards!

  sharadha

  
  
  

• Neil Munro

  Are you sure the story is truely

  May be it's copy from other web~

  
  
  
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