Microsoft has just released an updated version of its existing Windows phone 7 developer tools CTP that was announced in MIX conference in March. With new release, developers can now build windows phone 7 applications on the final release of visual studio 2010. This is refresh is available at http://developer.windowsphone.com.
New and changed features in the latest CTP are as followed.
- The release is compatible with Visual Studio 2010
- An updated Windows Phone 7 OS image for the Windows Phone Emulator.
- A few APIs in the frameworks have been added and or changed.
- The documentation has been updated with new and expanded topics.
- limited support for launchers and choosers. In cases where the underlying built-in experience is not present launchers and choosers are still not available (i.e. the email chooser asks you to select a contact, but there are no contacts in the emulator and no way to add one).
- Pause/Resume events are now supported
- Non admin users can also now deploy the emulator even if the tools are installed as the admin user.
- A problem with incremental deployment of projects has been fixed.
- A problem resulting in the error “Connection failed because of invalid command-line arguments” being displayed during project creation has been fixed.
- Design time skin refresh issues have been addressed.
- A problem where the Windows Phone node was not appearing in VS 2010 on non-system drives has been fixed.
