Craig Flannagan, MSDN Canada's WebLog

Canadian developer Update - Express Betas - Who's downloading? What are you building?

Hey Team Canada,

So, Express Betas are out (http://msdn.microsoft.ca/express) and many, many, many have downloaded. I'm curious to know what everybody is building as their first application to try things out? Business? Fun? Little bit of both?

Soon MSDN Canada will announce a contest for Canadians around Terrarium. The 1.2 version of the client has been released, we've got a server up and running and will point you there soon. In the meantime, visit www.terrariumgame.net and download the client, make sure your client points to the http://www.terrariumgame.net/terrarium server. Try out building some organisms, visit the terrarium farm to get some samples. Get your herbivore/carnivore ready for a Canadian terrarium contest!

Where's the tie in? You can use express to compile your bugs, you can also use Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Til next time,

Craig.

Published Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:42 PM by Craig Flannagan, MSDN Canada

Comments

 

Rob Chartier said:


Been beta testing it since last year in May, long before it was even called express.

The 1.2 version of Terrarium is build on 2.0 bits? (Early versions of Whidbey we labelled with V1.2, thats why I ask).

-Rob
July 14, 2004 1:06 PM
 

Don Newman said:

Still making my way through the Visual Web Developer Walkthrough (http://beta.asp.net/GuidedTour) and then going to attempt a web and VB attempt at a personality profiler akin to the Kiersey tests. With everything else going on right now I will be lucky if I get one finished in time for Summer of Express contest.
July 14, 2004 1:27 PM
 

DotWind Blog said:

I am gonna check this out soon had a lot of fun when terrarium just started on gotdotnet
July 14, 2004 1:46 PM
 

Jason Dever said:

The URL you have posted doesn't work.
(http://msdn.microsoft.ca/express).

Do you have a proper URL?

Thanks.
July 14, 2004 2:30 PM
 

Craig Flannagan said:

ACK! 2nd correction of the day!

It's the Canadian in me, not .ca, .com.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/express

Sorry!
July 14, 2004 2:32 PM
 

stan said:

So far, I've tried VC and VB express for fun. Most of what I've done is play around with the cool sample kits and extending them or modifying them..
July 14, 2004 2:40 PM
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