Contest Announcement

In order to celebrate my 200th blog post and 400th site added to the VBA search engine, I'm launching another blog contest!

Grand prize is a brand new copy of Professional Excel Development, 2nd Edition:

The Start-to-Finish Guide to Building State-of-the-Art Solutions with Excel 2007

In this book, four world-class Microsoft® Excel developers offer start-to-finish guidance for building powerful, robust, and secure applications with Excel. The authors—three of whom have been honored by Microsoft as Excel Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)—show how to consistently make the right design decisions and make the most of Excel’s most powerful new features. Using their techniques,you can reduce development costs, time to market, and hassle—and build more effective, successful solutions.

Fully updated for Excel 2007, this book starts where other books on Excel programming leave off. Through a hands-on case study project, you’ll discover best practices for planning, architecting, and building Excel applications that are robust, secure, easy to maintain, and highly usable. If you’re a working developer, no other book on Excel programming offers you this much depth, insight, or value.

This book was just released and includes coverage of Excel 2007 and more about .NET and VSTO (thanks to Dennis Wallentin). A must have for any Excel developer — reserve a spot on your bookshelf for this one!

Second prize is a $25 Amazon gift card, and third prize is a $15 iTunes Gift card!

Update 7/21/09: Chandoo from Pointy Haired Dilbert has contributed two copies of his Excel formulas e-book. So I'll be giving away FIVE prizes!

How To Enter:

I'll be sending out an exclusive email to the newsletter subscribers on July 22nd explaining how to enter the contest. You can subscribe from the link in the sidebar on the blog homepage, or right here. Contest will end on July 28th so sign up today!

I'm actively looking for blog contest sponsors — if anyone out there would like to sweeten the pot with a product or book you'd like to donate, let me know right away!