I agree, i have found that Microsoft is changing the development paradigms so often that i have been looking at learning android/ios because i no longer see any gap differences between learning non MS development.
I have had a wp7 phone for a year and still find the android better suited to my needs. Basically, anything advanced is not being done on wp7 as it restricts so much the apis. Anthony From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012 8:06 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Win8 Release Preview >sorry Greg, you indicated that you thought it's more confusing now, >I completely disagree as the metro guidelines are very strong) A web search for "Windows 8 design guidelines" produces some possibly useful information, and some of it is frightening. Where are the technical guidelines for developers? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464920.aspx >From this, I can understand that the points are admirable and must be the result of vast amounts of research into how our eyes and brains work: clear, clean, touch, scaling, charms, tiles, roaming, suspend, etc. It all generally makes ergonomic and usability sense. Yes it's all certainly an admirable mission to implement these things. But I'm quite upset at the degree of sudden paradigm change and the lack of warning and advertising (even as a developer). Even if "the metro guidelines are very strong", they're completely mutated away from any guidelines that have gone before. I'm extra angry simply because of the extra workload and burden of leaning yet another suddenly released standard. Development is hard enough already with a huge mess of kits, tools, operating systems, languages and patterns all competing with each other and giving me too much choice (too much choice is a bad thing!). Now I have Win8 and Metro on top if it all, just more sh*t to bog me down and waste more time futzing around in what I know will be hopeless hair-tearing frustration where everything doesn't work. So I guess I'll have to try and develop a Win8 compliant app and see how difficult it is. How anyone done this and can report from the coal face of coding? Greg
