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

4 Comments

  • 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.

  • Thanks for the tip! (I guess I didn't need to link PCRE into my driver co-installer, after all... ;-) ).



  • 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.

  • Thanks for the clarification David!

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