The Windows 8 sample code is designed in a modular fashion which makes it easy for Microsoft to add new pages or “Scenarios” to demonstrate various features of the new Win8 APIs. While there is a bunch of nice demonstration code, it’s really not written in a fashion which encourages easy borrowing. The user interface of the “scenario” is all jumbled up with the APIs being demonstrated, so now each developer gets to go through the pain of rewriting the code into a useful format.
Instead of a nice “SampleBackgroundDownloader.cs” class that has 95% of the features each developer would need which is called from the UI code, everybody gets to tear apart “Scenario1.cs” toss out the UI and logging code and rewrite it mostly from scratch. More pain!
