You can read more about it and sign-up here.
I won't be taking part in the competition but here is a quick strategy guide for those who wants to whip out apps quick enough in the 24 hours time-frame.
- Come out with a solid database design and think about the business and data methods you want.
- Code-generate your entire service back-end with LASG.
- Focus on your UI development during the competition.
The above strategy should give you a fair amount of time to focus on UI design and not have you worried about back-end access and deployments to Windows Azure. It will also allow you to do a more impressive demo of your app on real devices (connecting to a cloud back-end) rather than showing off your stuff on emulators and a local PC.
What you need before you go?
- Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Yes! You need this even you are building Windows 8 apps)
- Install Visual Studio 2012 Beta (a.k.a VS 11 - if you are building Windows 8 apps)
- Install SQL Server 2008 R2 (Express or Developer edition is fine)
- Download and install Enterprise Library 5.0
- Download and install Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) 2010.
- Download and install Layered Architecture Solutions Guidance (LASG).
- Download and install the Windows Azure SDK
- Get a Windows Azure 90-day trial.
- Don't forget your Windows Phone SDK if you are planning to build phone apps.
Take note that you need VS 2010 because GAX and LASG don't work on VS 11 :( No worries though, VS 2010 and VS 11 can be installed side-by-side.
Note: The above advice is for those who planned to develop apps with own service back-end and not those wimpy apps that just access some public web service. *LOL*
There you go. Now you can gen-away your code and go win some prizes :p
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