[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
