New Version of Windows Phone Developer Tools with Copy / Paste Support Released

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    Today Microsoft released another major update for its application development tools for the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform . This update includes the long-awaited support for working with Copy / Paste.

    The development tools update contains the following innovations:
    • the updated Windows Phone emulator supports the new Copy / Paste functionality; details on testing this function can be found in this article ;
    • corrections in the Pivot and Panorama elements with the correction of a major error associated with the selection of text in these elements;
    • in this update there are new utilities Capability Detection Tool and Connect Tool, which allow you to check the requirements of the created program for the device and organize a connection to a PC on which the Zune Software package is not installed, respectively;
    • Updated Bing Maps Silverlight Control with improvements in gesture handling
    • The update contains a fix that adds the ability to place XAP files with a size of more than 64 megabytes on real Windows Phone 7 phones for testing and debugging purposes.
    The update itself consists of two parts: the main package WindowsPhoneDeveloperResources_en-US_Patch1.msp and the update for Visual Studio VS10-KB2486994-x86.exe . The main package must be installed first, then the update for Visual Studio.

    You can download the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update at the following link .

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