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As a long-time developer of Windows desktop applications, I am quite excited about the possibility to using Visual Studio, C# and .NET to create software for my phone. I like what I see so far, and suddenly, Android doesn't look that much exciting to me anymore.

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I'm with you. I have wanted to develop apps for a while, but I didn't want to jump into Java or Objective C. With C#, I already know how things work, so there is no learning curve for me. So I dropped the $99 to sell apps in the marketplace. My market verification is complete, but I was not picked for the initial wave of apps. Hopefully, I'll get cleared to sell WP7 apps soon after launch.

I run dev marketing for wp7. Shoot me an email and lets see if we can't get you on the list. brwatson@microsoft

I expect some learning will be necessary, like how to use multitouch API and all that mobile-specific stuff.

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