--- title: "Add-in Contest winners announced!" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/13/add-in-contest-winners-announced.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/13/add-in-contest-winners-announced.html" published: "2004-08-13T13:14:00" updated: "2004-08-13T13:14:00" tags: [".Net Original", "Addin Contest"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "The final winners for the Add-in contest are: http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Winners.aspx Total prize worth that we'll be handing out: over $2,000. I'd like to thank all of the prize contributors for their help…" 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/" --- # Add-in Contest winners announced! By Roy Osherove August 13, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest) **Historical article** · Originally published August 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated. The final winners for the Add-in contest are: [http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Winners.aspx](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Winners.aspx) [Total prize worth](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Prizes.aspx) that we'll be handing out: over $2,000. I'd like to thank all of the prize contributors for their help in donating these cool prizes: [SyncFusion](http://www.syncfusion.com/), [AxTools](http://www.axtools.com/), [DevExpress](http://www.devexpress.com/), [Solutions Design](http://www.sd.nl/), [Matt Mickiewicz](http://www.sitepoint.com/) , [Mike Schnikel](http://www.xtras.net/), [Joshua Ledgard](http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/) and [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/). Thank you folks. --- **1st place: GhostDoc** **Author**: Roland Weigelt **Weblog**: [http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt](http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt) **Download:** [http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/Document%20Library/1/GhostDoc.zip](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/Document%20Library/1/GhostDoc.zip) **Description**: **GhostDoc** is an add-in for Visual Studio .Net 2003 for automatically generating those parts of a C# documentation comment that can be deduced from name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters. --- **2nd place: Solvent**
Author: Travis Illig
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Description:
Solvent adds functionality to the Solution Explorer window.
Items include: recursively...
3rd place: GoogleFind
Author: Martin A. Garins
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Description:
Search Google with the Highlighted text from your code window in Visual Studio and the results come up in the traditional Help/Web window in Visual Studio
 
**Most Innovative:** **StepFilter** **Author**: Jean-Sebastien Pelletier **Website**: None Download: [http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/Document%20Library/1/StepFilter.zip](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/Document%20Library/1/StepFilter.zip) **Description**: Enable/Disable the "Step Into" debugger behavior on code multiple points using regular expressions. --- Winners have already been contacted by emails. [Check out the amazing prizes they are Going to get.](http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Prizes.aspx) Thanks to all those who participated and sent in entries. I promise this will not be the last contest :) ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Aug 23, 2004 ### [Tomorrow is DBA day, and .Net rocks is back on my mind](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/23/tomorrow-is-dba-day-and-net-rocks-is-back-on-my-mind.html) - Aug 23, 2004 ### [A Virtual PC keyboard bug and fix, a new blog, and an agile question](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/23/a-virtual-pc-keyboard-bug-and-fix-a-new-blog-and-an-agile-qu.html) - Jul 31, 2004 ### [My upcoming lecture schedule](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/31/my-upcoming-lecture-schedule.html) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [The SQL Server usability advantage](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/the-sql-server-usability-advantage.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/