The new set of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools was released yesterday, and it has now been successfully been unlocked. In the video above you’ll see how Copy & Paste is implemented in Windows Phone 7. Seems to be working very well!
The Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update is now available to download. The latest update includes an update to the Windows Phone Emulator to support copy/paste functionality, and a fix for a text selection bug in pivot and panorama controls. The update also includes all of the updates from the Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update, including the Bing Maps for Windows Phone Silverlight Control, the Windows Phone Connect Tool that supports phone unlocking, and the Windows Phone Capability Detection Tool.
Alert: Windows Phone 7 users who copy text in text boxes that are inside pivot or panorama controls can unintentionally change panes. If your published apps have text boxes in these locations, you must recompile the apps and resubmit them to the Windows Phone Marketplace. To prevent this error in new applications, don’t put text boxes inside pivot or panorama controls.
Read the release notes for more information.
Windows Phone 7 users will get the new cut/paste functionality in a planned OS update.
Microsoft was largely accused to be the cause of Windows Phone 7′s phantom data usage. However, it turned out to be a fault in Yahoo’s email system, which sent too large FETCH responses when checking for emails. Yahoo! responded to this by blaming the way Microsoft chose to implement this in WP7, and said that every other platform has gotten it right.
Now, Rafael Rivera, the same guy who found out of the original bug, has also noticed that this same behavior can be found on Apple’s iPhone. So, it appears that the FETCH bug isn’t isolated to Windows Phone 7, but will also cause heavy data usage when using Yahoo’s email on an iPhone.
Microsoft just announced on their Windows Phone 7 developers blog that the WP7 Training Kit has been updated. The new version is 1.4, and it fixes some bugs and adds two new labs: Accessing Windows Phone 7 Devices and Multi-touch Game Development XNA Framework.
Here’s the description for those of you who don’t know what this Training Kit is all about:
Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace. This Training Course will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.
You can access the new and improved Windows Phone 7 training kit here.
Those of you who are lucky enough to head to Las Vegas to this year’s MIX11 conference, are even more lucky to get their own Windows Phone 7 application for that event. This year’s event will surely be heavily focused on Windows Phone 7 development. The MIX11 app is now available via Marketplace.
And to those that don’t know what MIX is:
MIX is a unique opportunity to engage with Microsoft and industry professionals in a two-way conversation about the future of web – from the diversity of devices and interaction models on the front-end, to the tools and technologies that power the user experience, to the services that make it all possible.
This is just a rumor, but the awaited Windows Phone 7 update will go live on February 7th. What we know for certain about the update is that it will bring copy and paste support and a huge performance boost. Just one week left!
Microsoft has published a KB support article on “Troubleshooting problems during software update for Windows Phone 7″. This would mean that we really are close to the first official Windows Phone 7 update. Let’s hope it gets released in the coming few days :)
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