Windows Phone 7 Development: a collection of essential tools

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Humans are animals that have invented and used tools. Good tools will greatly improve the work efficiency for developing Windows Phone. This article summarizes
A useful tool for Phone development. Visual Studio required for Windows Phone 7 Development
2010 and Blend, you can go to the http://create.msdn.com to download, here is not introduced.

1. Windows Phone Power Tools

This tool is strongly recommended. It mainly includes the following three functions:

A) install and deploy at the same time or update multiple XAP files (useful for others)

B) view the XAP files deployed in the system, uninstall or start the program. (Some applications cannot be displayed in the Application List after being installed in the simulator. You can use this tool to start the program)

C) File Browser: You can view all files in Isolated Storage, including Isolated Storage.
Settings and Files

: Http://wptools.codeplex.com/

Figure 1 Windows Phone Power Tools Installation
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Figure 2 Windows Phone Power Tools File Browser
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2. Windows Phone Simulator Cropper

This tool is recommended if you need to perform Sales Presentation. Function: intercept the display content of the simulator and put on the coat of your favorite mobile phone.

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3. Reflector

: Http://www.reflector.net/

I don't need to introduce this tool. The Decompilation program tool is basically standard with Visual Studio and is a stair on the shoulders of mountain giants. Remember to give Symbian
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During Phone development, they thought that things on the. Net platform were too easy to copy. Anyone could open your box and see how it looked like. Recommended tool and FileDisassembler
Add-on is used together.

4. Fiddler2

: Http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

I believe many people are familiar with this tool. They can use the principle of proxy to listen to Http network requests and intercept the program's external network traffic data, including common Web pages and Web pages.
Service SOAP package, Json data, Restful/OData Xml data and other Http request data, and convenient display of tree data structure, for example, Json data requests are often used in WP7. You can use this tool to visually view the data to generate the data structure required by the proxy class or deserialization.

In addition, we recommend a small Json Viewer, which is used to structure the Json data tree.

5. Silverlight Spy

Http://firstfloorsoftware.com/silverlightspy/download-silverlight-spy

If you want to deeply understand the ui structure of the Silverlight/WP7 program, this tool can help you implement Visual
Tree Analysis, understanding the role of ControlTemplate and
The core principle of Silverlight for Tree conversion will be explained in future articles. (Unfortunately, this software is not free, but you can try it out)

XAP resource download

With the above stairs, you can find giants through the following channels (if you have more and better ways, please let us know ).

Windows Phone 7 online portal, with a large number of Xap files available for download

WP7 3 MktPlace: a tool that downloads certificates directly from the Market Place and automatically removes certificates.

Conclusion

When you find a giant and have a climbing ladder, the next step is to climb the giant. The climb process requires a deep understanding of WP7 before you finally climb to the very top, and build your own applications on it.