microsoft / microsoft/win-dev-skills
Initial quick-start feedback
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Description
From following the instructions at https://github.com/microsoft/win-dev-skills#quick-start
Here are my initial thoughts (HTH)
- I expected this to be something I could kick off and leave until it was finished. It wasn't :(
- The number of prompts where I was asked to approve a long PS command that I didn't understand felt both frustrating and concerning.
- The report below has such a long session time because I really did just leave this running on a separate machine, and I didn't realise it was waiting for input.
- Of the generated app, yes, it built a complete app, but I don't know what the value of it is. There's nothing really reusable in the code it produced. The app only let me browse in-memory data. The generated XAML (based on a quick review) seemed unnecessarily verbose, complicated, and deeply nested.
I now plan to have it try to produce something that I can actually use.
As requested, here's the session report.
The full generated app code can be provided if needed.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by rereading the Quick Start instructions linked in the issue and the attached session-report.md. Review the reported approval prompts, unattended-session behavior, and generated app output, including its XAML. The issue provides feedback rather than acceptance criteria, so done is not yet defined and would require a concrete scope before implementation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, powershell
- Domain
- desktop, tooling
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100