The promotion from Telerik is almost over, so if you want to take advantage it: get free windows phone controls, and earn $100 bucks for your local user group, not is the time to get the application Submitted. The deadline is currently set to May 31st June 10th EST.
If you’re not aware of this promotion, Here are the simple steps from the website:
- Develop a Windows Phone 7 app using Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone
- Submit your app to WP7 marketplace
- Ask your user group leader to notify Telerik (usergroupcompetition@telerik.com) of your published application and the user group will receive 100 USD to help in its annual expenditures.
When this began, the controls were in beta and everyone was free to release them. Since Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone 7 are now released, there’s another step.
1.5. Before you submit the application, email usergroupcompetition@telerik.com with your name, application name, and user group name to obtain a license for the Windows Phone 7 Controls.
Since you can get it for free, and help out your user group, now is the time to jump on this. If you need a compelling reason to use the controls, download the Telerik Examples application from the marketplace and be amazed. Personally, even when I don’t use the actual controls, I take advantage of the animation framework for transitions. It’s as simple as switching in the PhoneApplicationFrame with RadPhoneApplicationFrame in App.xaml.
The terms are pretty straight forward, and it’s a really good deal. It’s the perfect time to dust off those sample projects and turn them into real WP7 apps!
**UPDATE**
The deadline was extended to June 10th. Get those apps in!