Windows Mobile Developer website gets updated
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Developer portal has a new look, and also new content. The team is also now also more accessible, with facebook and twitter accounts.
Unfortunately while the redesign is nice, it does rather come across as fiddling while Rome is burning. A much better use of the resources would be to make Visual Studio Express, the free version of Visual Studio, capable of developing for Windows Mobile.
Source:Luke Nyswonger’s blog
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You could not be more right. I love developing for Windows Mobile. Visual Studio and CF are best solution out there for dev. Fast, easy, and flexible.
Having said that, the WM UI is really behind the times. The CF list of controls are very windowish (lets just say I sometimes feel like my CF APPs look windows 3.1 like).
I really wish they would modernize the UI. Finger friendly! and including lots of friendly and exciting controls.
CF 3.5 was a waste. Ok, if you are an enterprise dev and need that kind of stuff great. However most developers will stick with 2.0 if they can because there is no compelling reason to upgrade and the 2.0 CF is installed on most devices.
Please MS. WAKE UP. Learn, investigate, (Steal) from the UI experience. we need great visual controls and we need them standardized. Lots of people are reinventing the wheel today with their own unique UI (Ex: HTC Touch interface, TouchFlo, and many 3rd parties imitating with their own thing.
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@Nebo: Great comment. You need to direct it to their blog here
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/
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