Greg "sudden paradigm change"???. Metro design language has been around for at least 2 years as part of the Windows Phone development story. They've talked about it at virtually every major Microsft dev event since, including the new interface for Xbox. Whilst there are nuances to the Windows 8 story, it's still the same basic design language.
Having built for both Windows Phone and now recently Windows 8 it's made easy by the awesome tooling (which you'd be used to with WPF and Silverlight) - VS and Blend. The Win8 tooling is still a little fragile, it is after all still beta. Having built on other mobile platforms and having to suffer their dev tools, Microsoft is definitely doing a great job in terms of providing the tooling and guidance to developers on how to build on their new platform. Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Built to Roam Pty Ltd does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Built to Roam Pty Ltd. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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
