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Windows Phone 7 Developer Experience [code + walkthrough]

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13 pointsBrandonWatson10 comments

The Windows phone is certainly going to be a big hit. Android is basically dead and Windows Phone will be the big one. That's my prediction.

If there is one thing that MS knows how to do, it's treating developers right. I know C# and I will port my apps to Windows Phone because I know MS cares about me as a developer, and that MS is interested in me making money.

Google does not care about developers, and their actions with Android have shown this. They care about people getting Android on their phones so that these people will use google search, not about developers making money from their software.

As a developer, I have trusted Microsoft since 1998, and they have never let me down. Microsoft cares for us, and when we speak, they listen. Google does not, and Apple barely.

Are you sure about that? I've been a Microsoft developer for quite a while and to be honest the support they _previously_ had for the mobile market was pretty shitty.

I'll take a look at Mobile 7 but they've more or less already lost me to Android. They have a lot of making up to do to get me back to WinMo.

I don't know about the mobile division, but the rest have always been very dev friendly.

Oh for sure, most of the support is great, but .NET CF 1.1 was a total crap-fest. .NET CF 2.00 sorted that but since then (2005) there have been no great changes, improvements nor openness about the future road plan (e.g. WinMo 7).

> Apple barely.

Citation.

I don't know about the case in point (in terms of listening) but I've read the IPhone SDK and Apple devs are just playthings in Apple's realm. Such a one-sided agreement it isn't funny.

So I'd figure that the OP has a point in saying that MS > Apple for developer welfare.

Then maybe you should take a gander at WinMo7's agreement. They're doing the same thing as Apple: You can only install apps via their version of the App Store.

> I've read

Citation Needed

If I were M$ I'd try to leverage expectations of a 2nd App gold rush with better treatment of developers by a more transparent and open App Store.

Couldn't agree with you more. Developers want to learn new things. They also want to get kudos or recognition for their work, and make money. Hopefully we will over eliver on all of those fronts. Our business was built by supporting developers, and we look to carry forward all of the great things we have learned over the years for the new Windows Phone 7.

I will have more posts this week with code samples and other info as I pull it out of the dev team.

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