I spent much of the day working on the Windows Phone app I dreamed up as a science project when they announced we could submit them for free and work on them at work (which I never really did in any significant way). Once the Web site is up, I'll link to it.
It's not a complicated app, and I'm not going to charge for it. I've got some bigger ideas for it, but before I commit to all kinds of stuff, I want to see how it's received first, and if it generates any revenue from ads. This is a v1 effort. There are a lot more things I could do with it.
As for the experience of building it, it's not hard at all. In fact, it's crazy easy to work with the platform. The only real speed bump is getting layout to look right, which is the same trick you have with regular Silverlight. If you use the mode-view-view model patten, you can reasonably handle the way it kills and restores the app, saving data.
Tomorrow I'll go look up the procedure to get an app store account and go from there. It would feel good to finish a project for a change!
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