David, We wrote a WP7 app. It was .. ok experience. Some stuff is not up to scratch and I'm still not very fond of SL. Some libraries make it better (e.g. Clarity Phone Interactive) but still not perfect. It's a pity that you don't get all the controls and functionality and tap and scroll and other bits directly part of the framework but part of all random plugins and updates and third party. I can't wait for all to be part of the core. Also some limitations are annoying (no access to search button) but except that it's nice. Also there is no DB part of SL yet thus everyone has their own "db" engine. >From poor and slow Xml serialization to proper DB engines. We used NinjaDB and I think it's a good db. Again, iPhone has SQLite part of the OS which can make a clear difference for a developer. It's a good, fast, predictable and reliable database. I think one of the reasons most apps are slow on WP7 is because they use XmlSerialization for their data.
Shameless plug: http://www.onesaas.com/reach/freshbooks Corneliu On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:29 PM, David Kean <[email protected]>wrote: > Anyone writing code for Phone at the moment? Any good/bad experencies? > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jake Lin > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:54 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: WP7 - next OS (Mango) seems good > > > > Absolutely brilliant. > > > > +Multitasking. > > +SL + XNA in one app. > > +More Launchers > > +Live Tile > > > > > > Jake > > On 14 April 2011 15:45, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Installed database, HTML5, 1500 developer tools, etc. Due in 6 months? > > > ------------------------------ > > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia > > >
