Windows Phone 7 demos

I attended the CMAP meting last night. The presentation was on Windows Phone 7. it was a disappointment.

The WP7 platform seems powerful enough, although programming requires a lot of different concepts (GUI design, web services, .NET, C#, and Microsoft's XAML are all necessary) and a simple program is complex.

Part of my disappointment is with the demo. The presenter built a "typical" application, using the above-mentioned technologies. The process took almost an hour, and in the end the program did not work. The presenter had to display a previously built program, a trick used by cooking shows on television.

Microsoft would benefit from the concept of "Hello, World". Their demonstrations of new tech are complex and pull together multiple technologies. Good in that it shows the total power of the platform, but it misses the immediate gratification and confirmation of the new tool.