To help promote the community aspect of SharePoint Retreat and share the knowledge and lessons learned beyond those that were lucky enough to attend we offer a prize for the best sharing of knowledge. This sharing could be in the form of a web cast, blog post, white paper or even presentation at a user group.

As this was the first SharePoint Retreat the prize is really pretty fantastic.

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscriptions valued at $11,899 each!*

The prize was donated, indirectly, by Microsoft, I was sent a number of copies to give away for being an MVP and taking part in testing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

There were some great posts:

@WorTony : SharePoint Retreat

@Weshackett: Review of the day

@nigel_price: SPRetreat London

 But there was one that really stood out and provided some great code samples and “how to”s from the day 

… and the winner of the prize is

Martin Hatch

Martin did a great 3 part series on the challenges and lessons learnt from the day.  With full source code available in part 3.

Congratulations Martin