Well, the contest winners are probably going to be announced sometime today, but here's my guesses at who the winners will be:

For C#, it's pretty tough to say, but I think Adaeria Today, Desklets and MovieScrape all look like pretty solid applications! Can't really say for sure, since I haven't tried them, but they're all based on good concepts and seem to be well thought-out.

For VB.net, it looks like a toss-up between BitTorrent Parser and CallerPC. CallerPC looks pretty simplistic, but I think it's a nice idea, and I don't remember ever seeing it done before. BitTorrent Parser looks like a cool app, but I'm not sure how well it really works, since I've never heard of the 'torrentbits framework'.

For VC++, I think it's pretty clear that Voxygen is going to win. Voxel rendering isn't exactly trivial, and from the screenshot it appears to run at a pretty respectable speed.

For J#, it's probably either going to be ChatApp or TChat. Hard to say without trying either of them.

In the Visual Web Developer category, I think Enemy Territory Server Query Web Service is probably going to win. It seems like a nice implementation of a non-trivial concept, and definitely would be useful if it works as advertised.

And then for the SQL Server category, who knows? I'm not sure there were even any entries that used SQL Server.

So, then, what do you guys think? Hopefully you've taken a look at most of the entries already, so let's exchange some feedback on each other's entries and try and guess who the winners are!

What about my vb.net app (exercise-it)? If you want to see some more screenshots visit my site.
The callerPC certainly looks very nice and deserves an honorable mention if it doesn't win. About BitTorrent Parser, don't know; I don't see any useability in a combination of Bittorrent and RSS. I have never seen a bittorrent link in my RSS directory.

Did anybody get an email yet about the contest?

Kaelan wrote: And then for the SQL Server category, who knows? I'm not sure there were even any entries that used SQL Server.

Hey now!  I used the SQL Server in MyComrade. 

The C# category seems to be full of awesome ideas but based solely on screenshot and description, I would choose MovieScrape from C#.  There are more great ideas in VB although I'd have to choose CallerPC for sheer usefulness.
Judging without the actual programs would seem to leave the games with a disadvantage, they might be really fun to play.

Still no message from the winners. Why can't we just get a list of who won?

Thanks :) Never thought I would see a guy from norway aroundhere :P

We should find out who won today!

Still no news.
Did any of the winners receive an email yet?

I am guessing there's something wrong with the "Submit" button etc.. :S It's getting late around here and I am eager to see who won :)

There's still hope for us. I didn't see anyone claiming they won.
If I would win, I would let everybody know on this forum.

Yeah, me too.. probably :P

But I can't seem to understand why they haven't announced the winners yet.. I am getting alittle frustrated as it's soon October the 19th here :P

The winners have been announced!

http://channel9.msdn.com/Express/

Congratulations!


Charles

Thank you, thank you very much!

PS: Can I get some kind of evaluation of my application/code? I've never had any code evaluated by someone better than me.

The zip (source code) appear to be corrupted.. ?

Try my website:
http://home.scarlet.be/~zippyv/

Visit Support for more screenshots and the Software section for a download.

I think in general all the winners look solid (except J#..) and congrats to all the people who won and their hard work. :)


[I don't think *ANY* of the J# entries should have won ..]

Congrats to all the winners!

I have to say, though, it kind of offends me that in the J# category an obscenely simple application won an XBox and year subscription to Live, while the winner in the C# category (along with many of the other entries) was obviously the result of far more effort. Doesn't mean the J# entry isn't any good, but it does seem kind of unfair.