The contest is for the purpose of demonstrating just how cool and useful LINQ is to the software development community.
Judging and Prizes:
Evaluation and judging of contest samples will be conducted by Joseph Rattz, Jr., author of Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 and proprietor of LINQDev.com.
One copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition, along with their choice of any three Apress .NET books, will be awarded to the Grand Prize winner. Two additional entries will win their choice of any three Apress .NET books.
The Grand Prize will be awarded based on the following factors:
Coolest, Most Useful, and Most Clever. We’re talking innovative. Maybe you’ve found new and interesting ways to apply its use; we’re also talking practical application, as in you’ve found a cool, everyday use for it. We’re looking for that “Wow!” moment, and we know it’s out there among you. But to win the Grand Prize, your sample should hit on each of those three qualities: cool, useful, clever.
Details:
Submit your LINQ samples to Apress and LINQDev by emailing them to contest@linqdev.com. Please include your name (for authoring credit). Winners will be notified via email for shipping details. Please include the text “LINQ Contest” in the subject of the email. One entry per person. Entries must be received by December 31, 2007 to be considered.
All entries submitted will become the property of Apress (Proprietary exceptions can be made for copyrighted samples) for possible use in future editions of Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph Rattz, Jr., and for use as coding examples on Inside Microsoft (microsoft.apress.com) and LINQDev.com. Full credit will be assigned to code samples.
Requirements:
All examples must work standalone with the following exceptions:
They may access the Microsoft sample Northwind database.
They may access a publicly available file available over the web. We are talking things like RSS newsfeeds, public XML files, etc. The link must be a stable link at a stable site so as to endure for the life of the contest, or, the data file must be public domain so that it could be hosted at the LINQDev.com web site.
You may submit a personally created datasource file (not database) with your example. This file could be an XML, CSV, or plain text file.
Winners Announcement:
The winners will be notified prior to announcement on Inside Microsoft (microsoft.apress.com) on January 30, 2007.
