The Access Show developer contest: win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7

We’ve released the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Betas and are excited to see what cool apps you will create. This is your chance to win an Xbox, 32GB Zune or a copy of Windows 7 and show the Access community your Access Services application.

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Contest Prizes

The 1st place prize is an Xbox 360 Elite.
The 2nd place prize is a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
The 3rd place prize is a 32GB Zune.
The 4th-8th place prizes are a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium.
20 runners up will receive their choice of an “I Love VBA,” “I Love Access,” “I Love Macros” or “Macro Enthusiast” tee-shirt.

How do I win?

We’re looking for real-world solutions using Access Services. Any application qualifies so long as part of it is accessible in the browser through Web forms or reports. It can be something you’ve built before and are looking to extend to the Web, or a new app built completely from scratch. The possibilities are endless :-).

Here are the steps you need to take to be considered:

  1. Build a real-world Access application using the Access Web designers and publish it to a SharePoint Server so it runs on Access Services.

    One of our partners Access Hosting, offers a limited free hosting trial for Access Services. Read about their offering in the blog here.

    As well, details about how to set up a SharePoint 2010 server so you can run your Access Services applications can be found here.
  2. Record a walkthrough of your application using Community Clips recorder or a recorder of your choice. The walkthrough should be less than 5 minutes.
  3. Submit the video to a public facing website, such as YouTube, and email us your submission.

    In your submission, include any and all feedback or bugs found during the app building process along with a link to your video.

Applications will be reviewed based on the quality, polish and complexity of the app as well as the presentation and quality of the feedback submitted. More details can be found in the official contest rules.

Rules

The contest is limited to eligible individuals as defined in the official contest rules and additional limitations may apply.  All submissions will be reviewed by the Access team, and prizes will be awarded based on the metrics as defined in the rules. The last day to submit applications will be March 5, 2010. We will post the results of the contest shortly after and prizes will be mailed that week.

Please note that only legal residents of the US and Canada are eligible for prizes.  However, we're eager to see videos from everyone, and we will showcase the best videos we receive, regardless of whether you are awarded a prize.

The contest ends March 5th so get started today! Let the fun begin!

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  • Hi Clint, I love the idea! I am already setting the gears going to come up with a good topic ... at least we have until the beginning of March to get things figured out Can we use Camtasia instead of the Community Clip recorder? What format do the files need to be submitted in? Thank you Warm Regards,

    Crystal * (: have an awesome day :) *

  • Off-topic:

    StatusBar in A2007 is still continually flashing even after SP2. (Windows 7, 64 bit, new installation of MS Office 2007 + all available updates).

    Please, fix all known bugs before you add any new features.

  • Hi, Downloaded for the contest the Access 2010.

    Trying to play a sound when user clicks on an added image field on a webform from a webdatabase project. The VBA seems different to me, unsure where to start.. thanks, :)

  • Come on... why only US and Canada residents? Too bad for non-US developers :(

  • Clint: Flashing StatusBar appeared just after SP2. I was the first who reported the problem, see blogs.msdn.com/.../access-2007-and-runtime-sp2-now-available.aspx. There must be a hotfix on it. Why can't you create A2007 SP3 which includes all past-SP2 hotfixes. The flashing-StatusBar-hotfix doesn't seem to be included in Windows Update. Windows Update on my new Windows 7 machine said there were no important updates. So I had to install the hotfix manually - see support.microsoft.com/.../973405.

    Please, check out if Windows Update works fine in Windows 7. In my opinion, there may be some problem...

  • Clint, Love all the videos you made about Access 2010 and this great blog. One question: for Access 2010, is there any new feature added with link table? In this new 2010, can I use Access link table to expose my enterprise cpmplicate EDM(Database) and listed on the Sharepoint Site, while still keep all the data in my application DB(not sharepoint DB)? And is there any way that we can even edit the data from Sharepoint UI? Looks like Access 2010 is linked to BCS for this solution, but since BCS still concerntrates on the flat relationships and there is no easy way to expose complicated relational DataBase on Sharepoint list OOB. Any comment is apprectiated.

  • thank you Are we limited to one entry or may we have more? thank you Warm Regards,

    Crystal * (: have an awesome day :) *

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