Copy-Paste and New Features for Windows Phone 7

5. February 2011 03:02 Comments windows phone

An update for the Windows Phone 7 developer tools have been released. It includes the long coveted copy and paste feature, enabled on TextBox, PasswordBox, and text input fields within the WebBrowser control.

The updated Bing Maps control has improved gesture performance.

This release also includes two tools that are new to the main package: the Windows Phone Connect Tool that many of us are already familiar with, and the Windows Phone Capability Detection Tool. The latter analyzes your application to determine which phone capabilities are required. In this past, this has been a rather opaque process (the capabilities you say it needs aren’t actually used). A developer I know had his application requiring capabilities that he wasn’t using. This tool will help him determine why this requirement is being detected.

An important fix is included for those developers creating large application. You can now debug and test XAP files over 64 MB on a device.

The new features, such as copy and paste, will not be available on the individual phones until it is updated. Keep this in mind if you receive complaints that certain features aren’t working in your application.

Note: I downloaded the tools and installed them. Copy and paste isn’t working for me.

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