I guess I can officially call myself a Windows Phone 7 developer. Over the Christmas holidays I had some spare time and started developing my own app for beer home brewers called Pocket Brewer It actually took a while longer than that as I had to learn all the fine points in getting an app polished to go to the Windows Mobile Marketplace so it didn’t get officially published until around February 3rd.
I’m personally very excited about Windows Phone 7 as a developer who spends a great deal of their time in the Microsoft .NET platform. In my day job I spend a great deal of time using C#, Silverlight and web services built in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 environment. What this means is I was able to develop the app in far less time than trying to get up to speed in working in Eclipse for Android or going out and buying a Macbook so I can build IPhone apps. Earlier last year I did take a stab at creating an Android app however it was a painful process because I had to dig for things I usually can go to without a moments thought in Microsoft’s tools. When you’ve only got 3-5 hours a week to spend on something you don’t want to spend so much time digging. I think a lot of good things will be coming for Windows Phone 7 users from all of us .NET developers.
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