As a Microsoft MVP I was given three Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription activation cards for me to give away. This is to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. I chose to distribute these activation cards to persons in online communities and I used twitter to see how many I could reach.

I announced a ReTweet contest from my twitter account.

I have 3 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription (12 months) to give away. RT this and you might be the lucky one!

I was quite amazed by the number of re-tweets and totally the numbers of RT ended on 42.  All this in less than 16 hours!

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It is quite easy to get started developing applications on the Windows Phone 7 Series platform.

Before you start you need to download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools which includes:

• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Emulator

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