The people over a C# Corner are running a programming contest for WPF applications. Contests like these are great. I don’t think a site like C# Corner could buy better advertising and garner as much good will in any other way. I wonder why other companies don’t do something similar. Google has been doing this for a couple of years.
Microsoft has really hit a home run with WPF and with .Net. But they have really fell flat on their face with Vista. What they should do it have a contest like this. “Write a program in WPF that adds to the Vista experience and win $100,000.” I imagine coders all over the world writing cool new system utilities and other programs for the money and fame. This would be a huge home run for Microsoft, and cost them so little. I bet they spend more than $100,000 on toilet paper every year. Microsoft would show that they are serious about public input, would get their developer community excited, get a lot of much needed good will, and improve Vista.
