To help celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft is holding a competition that is open to all.

To win some really awesome prizes, you just need to create and submit a 10 minute or less video demo of one of the new technologies being launched. So that could be C#3.0 or LINQ, or anything else related to the products launched at the Heroes Happen Here 2008 launch event.

The comp runs from the beginning of April (it's started!) until September, and is open to everyone.

You can get more details as well as a registration form at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/heroes/community.aspx.

It is pretty simple, just create a small demo, put it online using Silverlight Streaming, complete the registration form and send it in.

If you are a part of a group you have a higher chance of making the national finals because 3 demos from at least 2 people in a group (User group etc) will go through, whilst only 30 random demos will be chosen by Microsoft if they are alone.

So find some other people making demos, choose your best and send them off!

If you win in the national finals, you get a Media Center PC, a trip to Tech Ed 2009 in LA, and a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, WITH a MSDN Premium subscription! All for a 10 minute demo.

(There seems to be issues with the website at the time of writing, but I have assurances it will be resolved ASAP)