Nella giornata di ieri finalmente è stata rilasciata finalmente la nuova versione (beta) dei tools di sviluppo per windows phone, il download è disponibile a questo link.
Come scritto nel post originale siamo molto vicini alla versione finale dei tools: "The term “Beta” is understood to mean that things are close to being finished. Well, that’s what we mean anyway. This Beta release represents the near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7."
Ovviaiamente come è stato per il passaggio dalla ctp alla ctp refresh c'è bisogno di disinstallare la versione precedente perchè altrimente il setup ci restituirà il seguente errore:
Incompatible products
Setup has detected that following incompatible version of products or components are installed on
your machine. Please uninstall the following products or components in specified order:
* Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh
* Windows Phone 7 Add-in for Visual Studio 2010 CTP Refresh - ENU
* Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Resources
* Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0
* Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Windows Phone Extensions
Una delle caratteristiche più interessanti è che ora expression blend per windows phone è completamente integrato nel pacchetto di installazione dei developers tools beta. Qui trovate le release notes tra cui le più importanti:
- Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone – Blend is now integrated completely into the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta.
- Developer Registration Utility – Now you can unlock you Windows Phone 7 device for development purposes.
- XAP Deployment Tool – if you want to deploy XAP files directly to an unlocked device, now you can.
- The Windows Phone 7 API – we’re getting close to completion. Many namespaces that were previously distributed over several different DLLs have now been consolidated into one. In addition, there have been realignments and changes in several other namespaces as well. Push Notifications, Accelerometer and App Bar APIs have all been updated.
- Additional Controls – There are some additional controls coming in the next few weeks (i.e. Panorama and Pivot) which didn’t make the beta release. They are coming soon.
- Control Templates – Silverlight for Windows Phone control templates have been updated to match evolutions in the overall OS.
Qui trovate un post che spiega le differenze e le modifiche da fare per aggiornare i nostri progetti alla beta build, buon download a tutti