New Beta Adds Features to 'Windows Phone Developer Tools'
We are happy to announce that the new beta release of the Windows Phone SDK (renamed from 'Windows Phone Developer Tools') is available for download now.
New Features
The new beta Windows Phone SDK improves on last month's beta, and provides additional developer tooling features and capabilities, including:
- Updated Profiler. The updated profiler feature enables developers to profile performance of UI and code within an app. To use the profiler, you need to deploy and run your app on a Windows Phone device running a pre-release build of Mango – please see how to get the pre-release build of Mango below.
- Improved Emulator. The improved emulator provides stability and performance enhancements.
- Isolated Storage Explorer. The isolated storage explorer allows you to download and upload contents to/from the isolated storage of an application deployed to either the device or emulator.
- Advertising SDK. The Microsoft Advertising SDK is now included as part of the Windows Phone SDK.
Download
We have also updated our official documentation and introduced new educational material and code samples that provide more coverage across the platform. Check out What's New in Windows Phone Developer Tools.
Download the new beta Windows Phone SDK here and please let us know what you think by providing feedback on the App Hub Forums or on our WPDev UserVoice site.
Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation