Windows 7 Mobile dev tools are good, but not great. Notably lacking ability to access camera, and compass, bigger concern is that the cool Windows 7 interface c

Windows 7 Mobile dev tools are good, but not great. Notably lacking ability to access camera, and compass, bigger concern is that the cool Windows 7 interface cues are missing forcing devs to recreate, making some apps look clunky and could cause repeat of Windows app clunkiness. Definitely agree with this (so far). I've been fiddling around with the Windows Phone 7 SDK for the past few days and I'm finding my app isn't nearly as cool as the default apps, because of the missing animated transitions between pages, menus, etc. I'm also new to Silverlight, so perhaps I'm just overlooking the magic property that makes them work, but I'm quite sure you have to recreate them. Still, the Visual Studio IDE is brilliant and I find myself using the design view quite a bit - something I never do with .NET WebForms or .NET MVC, so they really got it right.