Silverlight & .NET developers unit. Windows Phone 7 Series needs you

Well all know by now that Silverlight and .Net (XNA & Visual Studio 2010) are going to be the main development tools used for developing applications on Windows Phone 7 Series. Independent .Net developer, Jim Wightman, posted his thoughts in a blog post:

Bring on the .NET developers…

Yep, the success of WP7 rests at least partially on our shoulders. We need to write bigger, better, faster apps and games and I can see Microsoft extending their excellent record of community support to really drive development on this new platform. The clever part of course is that many of us have been using the technologies we need for many years already…so Microsoft have not only given us the best chance possible to reuse our skills on a new platform, they have pretty much guaranteed that their version of an ‘app store’ will be a resounding success.

I feel confident in making that last statement based upon the hundreds of incredibly talented Silverlight/.NET programmers I know personally – and since of course they only represent a fraction of the programming talent in the industry, I know that the creation of WP7 apps is in safe hands.

Don’t forget also that many existing applications, if they have been written ‘correctly’, will be relatively easy to convert for use on WP7.

Another important point to consider is how Silverlight is such a delight to develop for and use that even if you’ve never touched XAML or used the SDK before, you’ll pick it up in literally hours. And Silverlight is available today, right now, and so is .NET. If you haven’t used either technology before, you can start learning now. By Holidays 2010, with a little effort, you could have written the ‘killer app’ for this amazing new mobile platform…

I personally feel exactly the same. Now is MS chance to build a rich library of mobile application and everybody .NET / Silverlight developer can be part of it.

Head over here to read the full post.