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Win with the Visual Studio Online Boost

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For years, Microsoft's Visual Studio has been the world's premier development environment. This month Visual Studio takes a big step into the future with Visual Studio Online, which brings development, backlogs, and team collaboration tools right into the cloud.

At Imagine Cup, we know students around the world use Visual Studio for their projects. But we also know how often you can be on different devices in the course of your week. Maybe you've got a desktop PC in your dorm, various on-campus computer labs where you can drop in, a laptop for class, even a tablet or phone for when you're on the go.

Now with Visual Studio Online you can always be connected to your project and your team across campus, across browsers, and across devices.

To celebrate this month's release of Visual Studio Online, we have teamed up with the Visual Studio team to bring you the Visual Studio Boost. And we want to encourage every student to check out what Visual Studio Online can do for you!

Best of all: Visual Studio Online is free for teams of up to five people -- which means it's perfect for your Imagine Cup project.

In 2014, nine Imagine Cup student teams will each win $1,000 just for using Visual Studio Online in their project. Every winning team from every National Final and our Online Finals will be eligible. So if you want to get your project started off right, please follow these steps and see what coding in the cloud is all about:

How to Get Started

  1. Visit Microsoft DreamSpark to get Visual Studio Professional 2013 at no cost
  2. Install Visual Studio Professional 2013 and set it up with your Microsoft Account – the same one you use to login here at the Imagine Cup website
  3. Sign up for Visual Studio Online at no cost. Use the same Microsoft Account that you just used when installing Visual Studio Professional 2013. While you’re there, you’ll also get your own personalized account URL at VisualStudio.com!
  4. Watch our videos showing how an academic team gets started using the powerful features of Visual Studio Online.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2013
    super..nice statement..
  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2013
    nice video! channel9, great site!
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2013
    mice
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2013
    If a person with 25 years of age can participate in Imagine Cup?
    • Anonymous
      November 18, 2013
      Yes, please see our official rules for details but as long as you are any kind of student ages 16 and up you should be just fine. Our rules are here:http://www.imaginecup.com/Custom/Index/Rules
      • Anonymous
        November 26, 2013
        Thank you, sir!
  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2013
    Awesome
  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2013
    where is the day for answer of pithch video competition plz
    • Anonymous
      November 26, 2013
      You should expect an announcement next week about the winners of the Pitch Video Challenge.
  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2013
    Sir i wanted to ask if we can use other commercial game engines for developing games for the game competition
    • Anonymous
      November 26, 2013
      Yes, if you look at our official rules we have no problem with middleware, libraries, game engines, etc.
  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2013
    great
  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2013
    Is this neccessary to download visual studio 2013 for signing in to visual studio online?
    • Anonymous
      November 26, 2013
      No, you can start using VSO right away. But if you download Visual Studio 2013 at no cost from DreamSpark, it will integrate with your Visual Studio Online setup, which is pretty sweet.
  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2013
    plz can you tell me where is the day of respons of pitch video?
  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2013
    i like this idea, its great and will get us more involved with visual studio. big up microsoft
  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2013
    very nice.
  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2013
    Thank you!
  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    Hi John Scott Tynes,Can you please let me know that team size may be 2 member for user experience challenge? Is there necessary 4 member in a team?Thanks!Best Regards,Kavikant Singh
  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    Hi John Scott Tynes,Can you please let me know that team size may be 2 member for user experience challenge? Is there necessary 4 member in a team?Thanks!Best Regards,Kavikant Singh
    • Anonymous
      January 21, 2014
      Imagine Cup teams can be from 1 to 4 people. So 1, 2, 3, or 4 are all fine.