If you are a Windows Phone developer, then today is a good day. Microsoft today showcased a plethora of new features in Windows Phone Mango. They’ve also announced that developers can get a beta release of Windows Phone Developer Tools that include support for Mango today.
The new application includes the following features:
- 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
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