Can Windows Mobile UIs Look as Good as the iPhone

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Can Windows Mobile UIs Look as Good as the iPhone
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 08:51 AM

Microsoft tells developers: do not count on us - just imitate iPhone by hand !
May 16, 2009 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.

Through the voice of their MVPs, Microsoft suggests that with some tricks, i.e. workarounds, developers can get looks like in the iPhone.

What is this? Why Microsoft simply couldn't provide proper APIs and class libraries to make implementation of finger-friendly UI easy and straightforward? Because Microsoft is belated with Windows Mobile 7 (that will have such classes), and Windows Mobile 6.5 simply doesn't have such stuff as finger-friendly libraries/APIs for programmers at all...

... the standard controls in the Visual Studio Toolbox look a bit 'Windows 95-ish', but armed with some fairly simple programming techniques, a little knowledge of how controls get painted on the screen and the skills of a decent graphic artist, Windows Mobile developers can create applications that look great--and enjoy the far superior productivity that developing with the .NET Compact Framework gives you.

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