New Version of Windows Phone Developer Tools with Copy / Paste Support Released
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.
You can download the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update at the following link .