As a keynote speech today, I want to watch the live broadcast with me. No matter you are not at the MIX scene, you will be very excited! Excited! Excited! Thanks to the support of these friends, I have never been lonely during the past two days!
The biggest expectation today is the Windows Phone 7 mango system update, which is introduced by Joe belfiore. I will first list all the updates.
New Features of Mango:
Chinese supported !!
Ie9 mobile for WP7:
Multi-task support: Fast app resume; Background agents; notification; Transfers (data, download ...)
New function integration ::
- Camera: Access to pipeline; no need to capture the image to flash;
- Sensors: GPS; accelerometer; compass; gyro; spatial framework;
- Networking: Sockets; Connection Manager Control;
- Data: SQL CE; phone contacts; calendar;
- Launchers & choosers: Bing Maps; email; phone numbers; address chooser;
- Controls: frame & page navigation improvements; performance; OSS on codeplex;
Extended phone framework:
- Tiles: Signature user experiences; complete framework; multiple tiles;
- Push notification: Deep toast; more control over notification;
- Phone extras: search; music; photos;
Silverlight enhancement:
- Sl4: Rich Text Box; implicit styles; clipboard APIS;
- Performance: Memory MGMT; input on render threads; profiler instrumentations;
- International: reading/writing all mango support languages ages;
- XNa & SL can be used in one app together!
Development Tool Update (updated next month)
- New template for multitasking; debugging background agents; isolate storage Explorer; profiler; Vb in express;
- . Net: performance; generational GC; serialization; SIMD-vector; profiler;
- Emulator: sensors & location; Multi touch; screenshot; ingestion tool;
In the subsequent series, you can take a look at these new features!