Code Awards
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It’s time to make your voice heard.
The MSDN Code Awards 2008 are Microsoft’s way of recognizing the very best in development. Which is why we rely on your votes to help the judges make their final decision.
Read through each nominee’s submission and vote for the developer who you feel made the most valuable contribution to their organization or community. Then, return and vote for the most deserving development team.
Only one vote per category will be registered, so if you change your mind, your new vote will automatically override your previous vote.
Don’t delay—voting closes March 31, 2008. Then, check back on May 1, 2008, to find out who won!
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Alexei Kouznetsov,
Novel Methods for Cancer Specimen Analysis | Graham Sibley,
Viewpoints | Pascal Bourque,
Xceed Data Grid for WPF | Bovey King,
MobiWatcher | Benoit Gauthier,
Beezilla |
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Affinity Systems,
Global Anti-Phishing System | Apption,
CHRC CMS | KnowledgeTech,
ImPark MPS | MeshMinder.Inc
MeshMinder.com | Alex Etesami and Team,
CPETS |
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Prizes include $2,000 plus a $1,000 charity donation for the best developer of the year, and $4,000 plus a $1,000 charity donation for the best development team of the year. Prizes will be presented May 24th at Energize IT 2008 in Toronto.
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Using SQL Server 2005, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and Visual C# 2005, Alexei developed leading-edge software tools that help provide diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options of cancer from histologic tumor specimens.
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Identifying a need to dramatically reduce the amount of manual construction required for enterprise application development, Graham created Viewpoints, a Visual Studio extension using DSL tools that can capture business-focused requirements in visual models.
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Identifying a need to provide a stable framework for Windows Presentation Foundation, Pascal designed Xceed DataGrid for WPF, the first-ever data grid for WPF using Microsoft .NET 3.0, Visual Studio .NET add-ons and SDKs.
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Recognizing the increased demand to do monitoring from remote locations using mobile devices, Bovey used ASP.net, .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio 2005, C++ and Windows Server 2003 to create MobiWatcher, an open platform that can employ any mobile device, any wireless service provider, and any video capture device.
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Using .ASP.net and Visual Basic, Benoit’s entirely reusable web-based development platform dramatically reduces a developer’s workload by creating all database objects—thereby decreasing the user’s need to understand programming and removing the need to create SQL scripts, indexes and foreign keys.
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Recognizing the mushrooming frequency and sophistication of fraudulent activity such as phishing emails to the financial institution and other sectors, Leslie Goldsmith and his team used SQL Server 2005 to develop the Global Anti-Phishing System, an enterprise solution to detect, takedown and track system the misrepresentation of personal information in the online world.
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To address the need for a more agile, responsive and integrated system for the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Case Management System, Sam Zaid and his team leveraged their expertise in SOA to develop a new service-oriented application using Windows Workflow and Communications Foundation from the .NET Framework 3.0.
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Requested by Imperial Parking to create a user-friendly Windows-based, internationally viable monthly parking system complete with a customer self-serve e-commerce Web site, Mark Remming and his team developed a suite of applications to meet the client’s needs using a number of Microsoft applications including .NET 2.0 Framework, Visual Studio 2005 and more.
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Recognizing the need for a comprehensive, easy-to-use Web-based solution that would help match recreational hockey teams with available goalies, referees and players over a centrally managed Web portal, Frank Fortino, his team and PdMain set out to build MeshMinder.com, using the .NET 3.0 Framework and leveraging its Windows Workflow Engine component.
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To enable University of British Columbia Nursing students to log their clinical activities remotely in an electronic portfolio, Alex Etesami and his team used ASP.NET 1.1, and 2.0, plus Microsoft Project Server 2003, Visual Source Safe 2005, Visual Studio 2003 and more to create the Clinical Placement and Experience Tracking System (CPETS).
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