Win a Trip to NYC + WPF Dream Machine with Your WPF Application Stylings!

The nice folks at Lab 49 are throwing a contest for WPF programmers.

The goal: take the financial data they provide and build a kick-ass WPF app around it.

The grand prize:

• a trip for two to the MS Financial Services Developer Conference in NYC
• the "Ultimate WPF Developer's Machine"
• an XBox 360 Elite (plus games!)
• a Zune
• a profile in WindowsFS magazine
• a copy of Expression Studio, Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Vista Ultimate
• a WPF Team signed t-shirt
• <whew>!

Final submission is 2/29/08, but there are other prizes for early submission (by 2/14/08).

The judges (Charles Petzold, Rob Relyea, Josh Smith and yours truly) will be looking for "your use of WPF, innovative display of financial data, the quality of your code, performance, appearance, and overall functionality."

I'm a bit of a financial nut, so I'm very much looking forward to the results of this contest. Dazzle us!

One correction - the grand prize is for two night's hotel in NYC for the DevCon convention.

And I must admit, our judges are looking pretty luminary!

>> The contest is open to residents of Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Puerto Rico. <<

Looks like the Yanks don't want to be shown up by any financial "rocket scientists" from the City [London's equivalent of Wall Street] :-)

The entry fee is a little to rich for my blood. I'd have to move to the US first ;)

Booooh! :(