One team is competing in this competition with VS 2005, ASP.Net 2.0, SQL Server 2005 and LLBLGenPro. Those guys are Dennis van der Stelt and Alex Thissen.

Next month the winner will be announced.

Read all about it on Dennis' blog. Another exposure for LLBLGenPro .

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dennis/archive/2006/02/27/11170.aspx

A quote:

Assignment The assignment was to create an application to create workshops, seminars and conferences. Visitors should be able to register for these events. All three were different in a way, which made it really complex. Conferences could span multiple days and have multiple (parallel) sessions per day, where a workshop could span multiple days, but could only be registered as a whole by visitors. Additional requirements were multiple webservices for credit card registration, management functionality for editing employees, users, assigning hotels and speakers to events, and more.

Everyone of course worked really hard for two days, and many teams had all different kinds of problems. One team implemented a large module, to see it crash in the end because they hadn’t tested it anymore. Another team had some problems with their framework. A lot of teams overlooked minor requirements in the specifications, or just didn’t implement parts because of the complexity.

One of our problems was that we completely focused on WinForms, where about 80% of the assignment was web-based, which made us decide to go completely for a web application. We could’ve had setup a complete website with user registration and all, which is something we’ll definitely do if we’ll compete next year. ;-)

Tools The tools we’ve used are Visual Studio 2005 and of course Microsoft .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0. For our database we’ve used SQL-Server 2005 and for generation of our datalayer we’ve used LLBLGen Pro. I’m very pleased with LLBLGen Pro, as for our RAD experience, it was great. Creating an eventcollection, adding a filter and tell it to retrieve the data worked really fast. Optionally adding filters, paths through other tables to retrieve those as well, etc, etc. Two thumbs up in my experience. Perhaps later I'll add another post how LLBLGen Pro turned out to work in a 'real' application using a distributed scenario, which I'm currently working on.

Though looking forward reading that post about the distributed scenario.

Yes, I saw the blog. Hopefully they'll end up being one of the better teams, or better yet: the winning team. Users saying LLBLGen Pro is great is worth so much more than advertising!

Aglaia wrote:

Yes, I saw the blog. Hopefully they'll end up being one of the better teams, or better yet: the winning team. Users saying LLBLGen Pro is great is worth so much more than advertising!

Is 4th place one of the better teams? We think so! Best Microsoft team ever, by the way! ;-)

Too bad we had to switch from WinForms to WebForms in the first hour of the race. We prepared for WinForms, and never for web. We presumed a lot of those 4GL (and 5GL?) teams could only do WinForms, that's why we ignored web. Resulting in a horoble user interface.

Anyway, read about it here http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dennis/archive/2006/03/29/11858.aspx

and here http://www.alexthissen.nl/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?Guid=669b4da9-9280-49c2-8620-6902c0fb0b54

Congratulations, that's wonderful results.

Fourth when there are 15 competitors is great Congratulations!

Congratulations guys! Great result!