My Podder Skinning Competition is officially one notch cooler now. Microsoft has offered to give each of the winners an 8 GB green Zune! That was a nice surprise!! 
By the way, the most sought-after prize seems to be the steak dinner at Smith & Wollensky. Three people have already sent me e-mails saying that they are going to submit a skin into the competition just so that they can have me buy them a steak dinner. LOL! If you’ve ever been to Smith and Wollensky, I’m sure you understand…
Who are those masked competitors? The Molenator demands to know, who would attempt to rob him of a STEAK!
The is great news on the Zunes. Thank you Microsoft!
cool…. good luck for the winner!
Hi Josh,
Your blog on WPF rocks!!!. The Podder Skinning competition looks supercool. I would love to have participated. But I do not have VS2008.
Sandeep,
Thanks a lot! You can get VS2008 Express, which supports WPF programming, for free. Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
Josh
Hi Josh,
How do I proceed if I encounter an (407) proxy authentication required error, while podder tries to retrieve the feed.
Regards
King,
Someone supplied me with this fix for the issue you mentioned. I forgot to put it into the Podder source code before releasing it for the competition (my bad!):
<system.net>
<!– ## defaultProxy uses IE Browser Settings –>
<defaultProxy enabled=”true” useDefaultCredentials=”true”>
<!– ## REMOVE LINE – TO SET MANUALLY ##
<proxy autoDetect=”unspecified”
proxyaddress=”http://#proxy_ip_or_name:#proxy_port”
bypassonlocal=”true”
scriptLocation=”unspecified”
/>
## REMOVE LINE ## –>
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
Josh
Hi Josh,
I the podder application up and running. Even tried to come up with a new skin.. I am new to WPF, but I loved working with it and also came up with a simple skin..
You have put up a great app Josh, Keep up the great work.. Hats off
Regards
Thanks a lot, King!