What an exciting time to be a developer. I have to say attending PDC shed some light on some seriously cool leaps forward in the Microsoft technology stack IE9, HTML5, Azure and you guessed it Windows Phone 7. This post is a update on the recent Windows Phone 7 related dev tool announcements:
- Updated OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7
- Windows Phone 7 analysis tools – not yet released but would love to get my hands on it eary
- Application Analytics and Code Obfuscation for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone Marketplace
- Sync Framework v4 Oct 2010 CTP bits
- Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 toolkit November
- October 2010 update for WP7 Dev tools
At PDC an upcoming performance analysis tool to run an instrumented version of your app on devices to provides profiler data in Visual Studio was demonstrated. In the demo the profiling performed gave data on CPU utilisation, frames per second and storyboard animations.
Free analytics and code obfuscation for WP7. Well worthwhile using to analyse how your users use your apps and protect your IP through obfuscation
Check out the cool WP7 client sample to synchronize your data from and Azure cloud service. This is a really great enabler for offline capable smart client applications
New Components; AutoCompleteBox, ListPicker, LongListSelector, Page Transitions.
Existing Components; GestureService/GestureListener, ContextMenu, DatePicker, TimePicker, ToggleSwitch, WrapPanel
Includes: A new Windows Phone Capability Detection Tool, Windows Phone Connect Tool – connect your PC and phone without needing Zune running and Updated Bing Maps Silverlight Control – performance improvements to guesture controls
Enjoy,
Nick
– but remember to filter your data, its the number one issue I find every time that I am asked to troubleshoot a poorly performing Sync App. Keep this in mind during development and you’ll have a much easier time as the system grows to in terms of number of subscribing clients and amount of data on the serverside.