So, the WinPhone7 development tools "preview" (or whatever its called) was released earlier this week. I'm, personally, pretty excited. Silverlight development is something I've been wanting to do more of and I'm an absolute nerd when it comes to gadgets.
I was an early smartphone adopter going back to the WindowsCE/Mobile days, then a PalmOS phone, then an iPhone, and now I'm using a Google Nexus One. I love my Nexus One, but I've not found the time to get my Java hat on and mess with much development lately. Being that the new WinPhone7 development is Silverlight, XNA, and C#, that will be very easy for me to mess with some development during lunch at work and things like that. I have some XNA experience from years ago and have been wanting to mess with that again sometime, too. This all gives me a good excuse.
I'm pretty excited about the technology stack. This blog post by Mike Hodnick (who does some awesome Silverlight audio/synthesizer development) describes his first-impressions of the tools. Sounds like the emulator is somewhat limited, but I'm sure we will see improvements over the next few months.
With this announcement and the Silverlight 4 RC release at MIX10, I expect this year to blow up with Silverlight development.
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