The Extended WPF Toolkit goes v1.5
[Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! - Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released
Description
A quick special edition post, the Channel 9 team has been working on brining a little fun to our everyday development and today it's being released to beta. I mean who doesn't like Achievements?!
Yep Achievements! In Visual Studio!
You can now download a Extension that adds Achievements to your Visual Studio. As you code, you earn. And of course there's a leader-board, widgets and even a community created WP7 app!
Interested? First check out this post, https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9team/Announcing-Visual-Studio-Achievements
Then, if you haven't already, Download it today from the Visual Studio Gallery
I mentioned a community WP7 app (oh and he's made the source available too)? Check out these posts from a Friend of Channel 9, Den Delimarsky
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone - Developing the core
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone - What it looks like
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone - User details & official project page
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone - Storage
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone - Final notes before the beta
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone in Beta
And finally let us know what you think! Please use the Q&A section of the achievements extension to make suggestions for future achievements. And if you have suggestions, concerns, issues or problems, again, use the Q&A section of the achievements gallery page. Give a read to the FAQ as well as your question may already be answered.
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The Discussion
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CloudManaged Just one question: Are you serious? Is this real thing? :O
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Roenik People love a challenge. I love the idea
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Fabulous_Fadz Awesome, I first read of this here,
http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/
and was excited that an update mentioned that Microsoft was looking into this. Downloading as I type.
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gduncan411 @CloudManaged:Yep, it's real...
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camalot -
CyrusC When the Authentication windows appears on launching VS I get several script errors:
Line: 2, Char 1, Error: Invalid character, Code: 0, URL: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/authorize
Line: 38, Char 1, Error: 'jQuery' is undefined, Code: 0, URL: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/authorize
When I click on the "Yes! Authorize this!" button I get further errors:
Line: 62, Char 1, Error: Object Expected, Code: 0, URL: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/authorize
I'm behind a corporate proxy.
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Gineer Awesome!!!
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drwelden This is awesome. I've already got them all, except Lonely, but I'll have that by Friday night. Which makes me wonder, how will you add more achievements? Will we need to update the extension, or will the extension auto update?
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HolgerSinn that's funny - i love it
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falbrech I am getting an 'unknown software exception' if I click on Tools -> Achievements.
Any ideas what fails?
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weekswyj I love it, it's very funny. Awesome!