Η νέα έκδοση των Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta είναι διαθέσιμη για την δημιουργία εφαρμογών για τις εκδόσης 7.0 και 7.1 του Windows Phone OS.
Τι καινούργιο υπάρχει στην έκδοση WPDT 7.1
Η έκδοση WPDT 7.1 παρέχει όλα τα εργαλεία που είναι απαραίτητα για την δημιουργία εφαρμογών για την ερχόμενη έκδοση του Windows Phone OS (codenamed ‘Mango’), που πέρα από τις βελτιώσεις που αποσκοπούν στην παραγωγικότητα, έχουν προστεθεί ένας app profiler, και ένας καλύτερος emulator. Τα χαρακτηριστικά του WPDT 7.1 περιλαμβάνουν:
- Profiler – A profiler allows you to identify and resolve performance problems quickly and easily.
- Improved Emulator – The WPDT 7.1 emulator allows you to emulate provide sensor input, including feeding GPS information and accelerometer data.
- Visual Basic – The WPDT 7.1 release provides in-the-box support for Visual Basic. With WPDT 7.1, you can now use Visual Basic to build Silverlight projects, XNA projects, and within both Visual Studio and Expression Blend.
- Multi-targeting – The final release of WPDT 7.1 lets you specify the version of the Windows Phone OS that will run your app. This allows you to continue to develop your apps that target the Windows Phone OS 7.0, or target the new ‘Mango’ release. Because the WPDT provides a multi-targeting capability, the beta installation will replace an existing WPDT 7.0 installation. All of your existing projects and code that target Windows Phone OS 7.0 will remain on your box, and can be continued to be developed using the 7.1 tools.
Please note that for this release of WPDT 7.1, these are beta tools. While you are able to develop, test, and submit apps to the Marketplace – these tools have not been completely tested and you may encounter bugs; you should continue to develop and test your Windows Phone OS 7.0 apps using the released WPDT 7.0 tooling. - Support for Windows Phone OS 7.1 – Build mobile apps that take advances in the upcoming Windows Phone OS, including:
- Additional sensors (camera; compass; gyro)
- Background Agents
- Fast Application Switching
- IE9 Web Browser Control
- Live Agents, making use of live tile and notification enhancements
- Silverlight 4
- Silverlight / XNA Interop
- Sockets
- SQL CE
George J.