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title: "Vote for your favorite desktop at the .Net Desktops Contest"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/14/vote-for-your-favorite-desktop-at-the-net-desktops-contest.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/14/vote-for-your-favorite-desktop-at-the-net-desktops-contest.html"
published: "2003-07-14T18:52:00"
updated: "2003-07-14T18:52:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "the .Net desktops contest is now closed for new submissions (you can add your desktop to the gallery once the contest is finished if you like). You can all go there now and vote for the best three desktops . The contest…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Vote for your favorite desktop at the .Net Desktops Contest

By Roy Osherove July 14, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 14, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

the .Net desktops contest is now closed for new submissions (you can add your desktop to the gallery once the contest is finished if you like).

You can all [go there now and vote for the best three desktops](http://pnavy.com/royo/desktops). The contest will go on for about 2 weeks(I think that will suffice) and after that time we'll declare the 3 winners. When browsing the desktops remember that there are actually two pages in the gallery, so don't overlook the second page!

The following prizes are available for the first places:

- 30$ coupon at the microsoft store (which goes a longer way than you think), courtesy of [Robert Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/)
- The book: [MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-310): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789728206/qid=1058219311/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/iserializable-20) ,courtesy of [Mike Gundelroy](http://www.larkware.com/)
- The book: [Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735618011/qid=1058291340/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/iserializable-20) courtesy of [Patrick Steele](http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele)

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- Jul 18, 2003

    ### [Weblogs@DotNetJunkies](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/18/weblogsdotnetjunkies.html)

- Jul 18, 2003

    ### [Make your desktop show active RSS content](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/18/make-your-desktop-show-active-rss-content.html)

- Jul 11, 2003

    ### [The blogger chain letter?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/11/the-blogger-chain-letter.html)

- Jul 9, 2003

    ### [Microsoft does, but can do even more](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/9/microsoft-does-but-can-do-even-more.html)


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## About the author

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