Congratulations to all the new and renewed Client App Dev MVPs, the first batch for 2011. We had a lot of nominations, and these are the people who rose to the top and were awarded MVP on Jan 1, 2011.

• Jonathan Antoine (France)
• Christopher S Bennage (US)
• Ray Booysen (UK)
• Michael D Brown (US)
• Ridi Ferdiana (Indonesia)
• Simon Ferquel (France)
• Jaimir Guerrero (Colombia)
• Tim Huckaby (US)
• Corey Miller (US)
• Yee Jie Ng (Malaysia)
• Diptimaya Patra (India)
• Carey Payette (US)
• Steve Porter (US)
• Toni Recio i Sacristà (Spain)
• Davide Gennaro Senatore (Italy)
• Abhishek Sur (India)
• Aykut Tasdelen (Turkey)
• Yuya Yamaki (Japan)
• Akiko Yamanouchi (Japan)

The Client App Dev MVP focuses primarily on WPF, but also includes elements of Windows Forms, Surface, Silverlight, C++, even XNA at times. These are people who are building, and showing us how to build, awesome applications on the Windows platform.

Congratulations!