This is definitely an ideal position for someone with the quals. I didn't see the ad until after it was filled but here are my thoughts as to why maybe no one applied...people just didn't qualify, maybe if you said "telecommute" instead of "virtual office" in the title...maybe no one has the visual studio IDE or knows that the express is free from MS to answer your questions. I know you don't need those to code but as a c# developer, you know that we rely on the IDE for coding. Maybe the questions were too hard without the IDE or just too hard in general. The questions are interesting though to say the least.

Or maybe it was the life sciences part. That's a very specific industry and maybe that's what scared people away if they aren't part of it. I mean, I definitely have not coded for that industry and I'm not too sure it was required.