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发帖数: 1034 | 1 Windows platform developer August updates
August 4, 2014 by Cliff Simpkins // PC, Phone, Tablet
This morning, the Windows platform team has released three new Windows
platform developer updates available for you:
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 is now available, providing a number of
productivity improvements for the Windows platform developer
The Windows Phone 8.1 Update emulator package is also now available,
providing you with the latest phone image to test your app
And the Windows Phone 8.1 Update is also now available via the Windows
Phone Preview Program for Developers, enabling you to run your apps on a
physical phone running the latest update
In this post, I’d like to provide a quick lap around these three updates,
and provide some context around what they add to your developer toolkit.
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
While today’s Visual Studio Update contains a whole lot of productivity
goodness for the Microsoft developer (see Soma’s blog post for more details
), I’d like to call out three new capabilities available that improve the
Windows app building experience:
You can now use a Push Notification wizard to connect your Windows app (
client or phone) to a .NET Azure Mobile Service.
Sockets are now available for you to use in your Windows apps, adding
another networking option for your WinRT-based apps
DirectX graphical debugging tooling improvements help DX devs be more
productive – including some bug fixes and the addition of a command line
tool in the DX remote MSI package to allow for capturing a graphics trace on
a remote system without having to install the entire Windows SDK or Visual
Studio.
To get Update 3, head on over to the Visual Studio download page.
Windows Phone 8.1 Update
Today, we are also making Windows Phone 8.1 Update available to our
developers, both via emulator packages and a physical phone update. Today’s
update continues the Windows Phone tradition of making phone updates
available ahead of general consumer availability, and providing you with the
opportunity to test your apps and games with the update before your
customers start doing so.
As shown off by JoeB last week, there’s a ton of end-user goodness in the
update (check out Joe’s Update 1 post for more info). However, you’re a
developer, and you’re likely wondering what’s in the update for you.
Overall, the update contains no new developer APIs, but it does contain a
number of OS improvements that are sure to improve the overall experience
your customers will have with your app. Here are three Update 1 improvements
that I believe are worth calling out:
Consumer VPN support brings peace of mind to phone users wanting to
access an app’s backend services in a safe and secure manner.
There are a number of Bluetooth connectivity improvements in the update,
improving the BT integration with cars and headsets, and we’ve added a new
Bluetooth Personal Area Network (PAN) profile. Also of note on the BT-front
, the team has added some additional APIs for device manufacturers to make
it easier to build companion apps for their devices and to enable
notifications to be more easily pushed from the phone to a wearable device.
On the user start screen, the Store app now sports a live tile to help
developers get discovered and installed more often, and the new Live Folders
capability should help make it easier for you to be found and launched. :-) |
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