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Write Windows Apps, get up to $2000 in cash. Publish your app(s) in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store from March 8th to June 30th, 2013. Bling bling.
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Adding Geo-Location to Your Game

Watch this screen cast to learn how to kick up your Windows 8 games up a notch with location awareness.
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Screen Scraper Utility Kit for WinRT

Have you ever needed to take unstructured data from a web site (or some other source) and parse it? Chances are you have. The problem of unstructured data is growing. This utility is designed to make it easier to scrape data from web sources.
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Keep the Cash!

Publish your app(s) in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store from March 8th to June 30th, 2013.

Enter up to 10 apps per Store and get a $100 virtual Visa card for each that qualifies (up to $2000*).

About Frank

Frank La Vigne has been hooked on software development since he was 12 when he got his own Commodore 64 computer.

Since then, he's worked as developer for financial firms on Wall Street and in Europe.

Frank now works for Microsoft as a Public Sector Windows 8 Champ and Developer Evangelist.

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