OneNote PowerToy Contest

Does anyone know whether Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 can be used to develop power toys for the contest? The official rules simply state:

“Programming language must be C++, C# or VB.NET”

I would hate for a bunch of programmers to spend the time building power toys only to be disqualified because they didn't use Visual Studio 2003. As Brian put it (in a messenger conversation), this seems like a great cross-product promotional event.

Come on OneNote team, how about it?

© 2005 Kenny Kerr

Published Friday, June 24, 2005 3:00 PM by KennyKerr

Comments

# re: OneNote PowerToy Contest

Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:34 AM by Andrew W
The issue I saw w/ using VS2005 is that (for CLR apps) it'd require all users to have the .NET 2.0 Framework. Assuming the power toys are released fairly soon after the contest is over, is that even a viable prerequisite for end users?

I'm using VS2005, for the fun of it, but am sticking w/ unmanaged C++. I'm a driver/system SW guy, so this isn't much of a limitation for me -- well, unless my PowerToy requires regular expressions!

# re: OneNote PowerToy Contest

Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:12 PM by Kenny Kerr
Yep, I used managed C++ to prototype my power toy and am starting to write the final version in native C++ just to be safe.

Oh, ATL now (actually since version 7) has pretty good regex support, even if it is not quite as good as the .NET Framework’s Regex class.

# re: OneNote PowerToy Contest

Monday, June 27, 2005 1:07 AM by Andrew W
Thanks for the tip! (I guess I didn't need to link PCRE into my driver co-installer, after all... ;-) ).

# re: OneNote PowerToy Contest

Friday, July 01, 2005 5:09 PM by David Rasmussen [MS]
You're welcome to use Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

In the event that you're one of the winners and we want to release your PowerToy to the public then we'll need to be able to recompile it against Visual Studio 2005 RTM when that's available. We may ask for your help in doing this if you're a winner.

# re: OneNote PowerToy Contest

Friday, July 01, 2005 5:32 PM by Kenny Kerr
Thanks for the clarification David!