--- title: "What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/23/what-add-ins-would-you-like-to-see-in-the-contest.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/23/what-add-ins-would-you-like-to-see-in-the-contest.html" published: "2004-04-23T19:33:00" updated: "2004-04-23T19:33:00" tags: ["Addin Contest", "Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "The Add-In contest is really picking up steam . The prizes rock, and hopefully we'll all be getting some cool entries that we can all benefit from. However, I got a good suggestion from Eric Brunsen: “How about adding a…" 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/" --- # What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest? By Roy Osherove April 23, 2004 In [Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published April 23, 2004; technical details may be outdated. [The Add-In contest is really picking up steam](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/04/21/117663.aspx). The prizes rock, and hopefully we'll all be getting some cool entries that we can all benefit from. However, I got a good suggestion from Eric Brunsen: _“How about adding a little "flavor" to your contest. have a place/way for people to post ideas of add-ins they would like, and then post them somewhere.  This way, developers who want to play, but can't think of a good add-in would have some samples to choose from.“_ Good idea! So, in this spirit - if you have an idea for an add-in you wish to see submitted to the contest - **post a comment here**. I'll also link to it from the main contest page. Who knows, you just may get what you wish for! Happy thinking!  PS You don't have to come up with only “useful“ add-ins. “cool“ and “totally weird“ can also be considered. As an example, her'es an idea for a wacky Add-in I'd like to see in VS.Net: _Add-in suggestion:_ **Name**_: ”_Coding pe_t_” **Description**: A virtual dog,cat or monkey will roam inside VS.Net, screaming “yowza!“whenever you hit a breakpoint,  and doing a double back flip whenever a build has ended. It will also feature the occasional pink elephant flying across (and inside) the VS.Net form designer if it is open“ ## More in Addin Contest [All posts in Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest) - May 7, 2004 ### [Another book added to Add-in contest prizes](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/another-book-added-to-add-in-contest-prizes.html) - Apr 25, 2004 ### [1st prize just got a whole lot bigger](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/25/1st-prize-just-got-a-whole-lot-bigger.html) - Apr 21, 2004 ### [\[Coding Contest\] Most Useful/Innovative VS.Net Add-in/Macro (and some huge prizes)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/coding-contest-most-usefulinnovative-vsnet-add-inmacro-and-s.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License 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/