Amazon.com Widgets

LH SDK in the OS

Lori asks an interesting question about what parts of the LH sdk should ship in the OS.  I personally love this idea… what if there was even a developer SKU of the OS?  The Start menu could have your debugger, editors, etc readily available.  VSPad rather than notepad.  The %path% environment variable should include all the great developer goo.  Instead of “Clippy”, we could have ChrisAn or DonBox pop-up and offer random, but interesting programming suggestions at odd times ;-)

 

What else would you like to see?

 

Published 20 March 04 09:31 by BradA
Filed under:

Comments

# Kent Tegels said on March 20, 2004 9:57 AM:
No, no, wait... Don and the rest of the Band on the runtime as MCE dancers! Now that's what we need.
# milbertus said on March 20, 2004 5:37 PM:
I definitely like the sound of this. That's one area where, imo, the *nix world does a better job than Windows - the out of box developer experience. It would be great if I could install Longhorn, and just start coding right then.
# Aaron Vance said on March 21, 2004 1:57 PM:
From a developer's perspective, Unix (+ variants) provides a better out of box development environment -- but if you'll notice that may also be a major reason why adoption of the Unix "desktop" hasn't taken off. It adds unnecessary complexity, while adding flexiblity to us.

I say throw it in, but making the start menu + environmental hooks accessible from somewhere in the Control Panel so it doesn't overcomplicate matters for those less inclined.

I offer this as a developer who also assists in management of our organizations PCs and server's and deeply aware of our user's "experience" with Windows.

I have massive anticipation to Longhorn and even the wave of change that it will push on interaction with a PC in terms of interface + toolset, but some aspects should remain the "power under the hood" so to speak.
# Mike Kolitz said on March 21, 2004 3:30 PM:
There is definitely some merit to adding dev tools to the OS. I'm not sure it would need to be an entirely different SKU, but I would love to see something like this happen.

And don't forget Hillel Cooperman, too ;) He can offer advice on UI design!
# Keith Hill said on March 22, 2004 10:53 PM:
A good console shell and a good build system are also musts. Wait a minute, that's all coming with MS Shell and MSBuild. That's good news. :-) Hey, just make sure my console windows look like the other windows in Longhorn. Ya know, with rounded corners and themed properly.
# Louis Parks said on April 11, 2004 11:11 AM:
Seems that devs should be as close to the end user experience as possible. It also seems that a dev sku would make that more difficult than it is at present.
New Comments to this post are disabled

Search

This Blog



These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.



Ads by Lake Quincy Media

Syndication

Page view tracker