News · 22 May 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 had a one hour long video chat last night on Microsoft’s Backstage site to discuss the company’s developer strategy with WP7 and answering a lot of interesting questions. The full transcript isn’t up yet but here’s a couple of notes I took while watching the whole ything a few minutes ago:
-Third Party Apps can’t open email attachments
-Refresh of development tools every months and final dev tools will be released few months bprior to the launch on WP7.
– Sockets support coming but timing is still unclear. Only managed access to HTTP is available now.
– Expect the MarketPlace policies to be announced soon. Transparency in the approval process. If an app gets rejected the developer will receive a bulleted list of things that need to be fixed so he can re-submit his application.
– OEM applications can’t do Multi-Tasking but the OS is “fully Multi-Tasking & Multi-threaded”
– No application side-loading in the first iteration of the OS. Installation is only possible through the Marketplace.
– Compass and accelerator support in the emulator coming in future update
– No VPN support in WP7 at launch
– Third-party App-to-App communication is not allowed
– Windows Phone 7 handsets will be provided to developers soon
– Microsoft first-party and third-party titles are being build
– Local storage won’t be exposed in the first iteration of the OS.
And finally
– Developers, developers, developers!
If you don’t have much to do I suggest to watch the whole thing here (registration required). I’ll will post the full transcript once it’s made available.
Source: Microsoft
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