[05.25] [Mango] Windows Phone DTK 7.1 Beta

旧的征程尚未结束，新的旅程已经开始，Mango让我很是欣慰啊。国外的一篇小结，照搬~

 

Top level 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

Here is the list of the new API features:

Controls:

• RichTextBox – inline images and hyperlinks
• Viewbox – like Zoombox
• WebBrowser Control - IE9

Media:

• Webcam + Microphone
• 32bit color

Networking:

• Multicast – UPD Support
• WebClient API will call back into UI thread

Performance:

• Input thread for increased performance of controls like ListBox

User Interface:

• Clipboards Access API
• Commanding
• Implicit Styles
• Right-to-Left Flow Direction
• Multiple Transforms – move me and animate away!

XAML:

• Silverlight 4 Parser – also helps with moving XAML from other apps

Data:

• DataBinding improvements include String Formatting, Fallbackvalues
• DataServiceCollection<T> – for WCF Data Services support

Core .NET Framework features:

• Collection Classes – ISet<T> and HashSet<T> now available
• Tuple class support
• Time Parsing – easily parse TimeSpan and String Format as desired with multi-culture support
• Cryptography
• TryParse – added to many types, such as Guid and TimeSpan