Windows Phone 7 dev: C# or silverlight for a simple app?
- by OneWorld
I'm about to hire a programmer to develop Windows Phone 7 apps.
The current app that shall be developed is quite simple.
The app will download content from a Web-API.
There are two lists to select content.
There is a single item content page.
Users can rate the content and upload photos.
The screens will be produced by our artist. I am pretty sure that most of the available programmers haven't touched WP7 development yet.
Now the questions are:
What technology is suitable for this kind of app?
What technology requires less research, learning and production time?
Do you already have experience of limitations of silverlight compared to C#? (I am also thinking of future projects)
My guess is that silverlight programmers are more experienced in UI programming than C# coders. Do you feel the same way?