Informal Poll for Developers: What Longhorn SDK samples do you want see?
If you're a developer who has had a chance (or would like to now take the opportunity - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx for a great starting point) to play around with the various APIs in Longhorn, this post is for you ...
A big part of my new SDE gig on the Longhorn SDK is creating new WinFX samples. The very first part of that work, as you could guess - and as you'd hope! - is to identify the areas where we'll get the biggest bang for our dev-time buck, and a key part of THAT prioritization effort is talking to you folks. The last thing we want to do is give you samples you don't need and leave out the ones you do need.
For this push, we are focusing on what I vaguely term "medium-sized samples" - meaning not code snippets that show you how to use one or two APIs, and emphatically not "uber-samples" that take every WinFX technology and use it in a single monolithic app.
The "small" and "large" samples have their place, but for this new push we're focusing on the middle road. The goal of these samples is to indeed touch on multiple technology areas, but keep the size down such that the educational value is still high. You should be able to take a chunk of code, make sense of what it's doing, and reuse it if you'd like, without having to grok a large and sprawling codebase that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the area that interests you at that moment.
With that brief bit of background, here are the questions:
1. In which areas of Longhorn and WinFX (including "Avalon", "Indigo", WinFS, etc.) would you like to see more samples?
2. Which areas of WinFX are, in your experience, already well-covered by samples?
3. Are there any cross-technology, "stitching some areas together" samples that you'd like to see?
Any input appreciated here - and be sure to give me fun ideas. It makes my job ... well, more fun, plus it makes the samples a lot easier to digest for customers as well. :)
