---
title: "Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/18/announcingcoolest-add-in-contest-entries-available-for-downl.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/18/announcingcoolest-add-in-contest-entries-available-for-downl.html"
published: "2004-07-18T16:35:00"
updated: "2004-07-18T16:35:00"
tags: [".Net Original", "Addin Contest"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Announcing the Add-in Contest site: http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/default.aspx Site features: Lists all the entries that were eligible to enter the contest, along with a download link and short descriptions. (some…"
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/"
---

# Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download

By Roy Osherove July 18, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

![Coding Contest: Coolest/most useful VS.Net Add-in or Macro](https://osherove.com/img/wb/d3d4203b_royo.is-a-geek.com_pics_contest.gif)

**Announcing the Add-in Contest site:**

[http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/default.aspx](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/default.aspx)

Site features:

- Lists **all the entries that were eligible** to enter the contest, along with a download link and short descriptions. (some of these are pretty cool!)
- Prize list
- Judge list
- Schedule for contest phases
- All add-ins and macros come with their own documentation in the zip files. Some have more(or much less) documentation that others - be warned.

Hopefully (but we're flexible here) by the end of this month we will have a finalized list of winners.

**Known issues:**

\* yes, I know the site is slow.

\* yes I know you can see links for administrator features on the site. Fortunately - you won't be able to use them (you'll get a user pass dialog). Anyone know how to turn these off by the way??

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Jul 21, 2004

    ### [ADO.Net talk went great](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/21/adonet-talk-went-great.html)

- Jul 19, 2004

    ### [Unit Testing scalability and performance](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/19/unit-testing-scalability-and-performance.html)

- Jul 11, 2004

    ### [Introducing: NUnitX and the Rollback attribute - Seamless database rollback with Nunit](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/11/introducing-nunitx-and-the-rollback-attribute-seamless-datab.html)

- Jun 20, 2004

    ### [Watch me speak: eXtreme Programming and Agile concepts, at the .Net Architects user group this month](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/20/watch-me-speak-extreme-programming-and-agile-concepts-at-the.html)


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## 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.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [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.
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