A friend, a coworker, and an all-around great guy, Page Brooks, has created a contest for building controls for Silverlight.
Here’s the highlights:
"Welcome to the Silverlight Control Builder Contest! With this contest, we hope to incite the development of many open and free Silverlight Controls that all developers can use in their applications, and what better way to do this than through a friendly contest! This contest is your chance to demonstrate your control building skills to the Silverlight community and win some pretty cool prizes at the same time!"
Check out the prizes:
1st Place
- 1-Year MSDN Premium Subscription (Not for Resale)
- Your choice of one book from the entire O'Reilly catalog
2nd Place
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition
- Your choice of one book from the entire O'Reilly catalog
3rd Place
- Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date from O'Reilly
- Your choice of one book from the entire O'Reilly catalog
Great opportunity to build a little fame and win some great prizes. Find out more after the jump: http://gosilverlight.org/