News · 24 May 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Along side the Windows Phone 7 Mango comes the launch of the Mango Beta SDK. It’s available now for download and obviously includes most of the features we have heard about during the MIX11 event. Yes, it’s called Windows Phone 7.1.
First the tools. Developers can use this beta release to get ready for the upcoming Windows Phone OS release. The new application platform capabilities coming in Mango deliver the top features you have asked for:
– Background processing
– New profiler and emulator for testing
– Use of Silverlight + XNA together
– Silverlight 4
– IE9 web browser control
– Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally
– Deep linking into apps from notifications and Live Tiles– Additional sensors; direct camera access, compass & gyro
– Fast application switching
– Networking / sockets for communications
– Local SQL database for structured storage
– Access to calendar and contacts for apps
You can download it directly from here (add the .exe extension to the downloaded file…).
Update: Link to the tools and release notes: here.
via Microsoft
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