David

Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh

Just a little advice when installing to the latest version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools (Version 1.0 Release Date 4/29/2010) make sure that you first have uninstalled Visual Studio 2010 RC and have installed the RTM version. After you have done that make sure you have, as well, uninstalled the previous version of Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP. Here is a screenshot of requirements that need to be met before you can install to the current version of Windows Phone Developer Tools. Might save you some time figuring it out.

Happy coding!

Configuring your Windows Phone Application after updating to Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh update

Well, this is another small piece of advice, something I ran into when I was about to start working on my Windows Phone application after I performed an update to the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh. When I opened my project I was prompted to update my WMAppManifest.xml file with the following:

      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_NETWORKING” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_LOCATION” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_SENSORS” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_MICROPHONE” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_MEDIALIB” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_GAMERSERVICES” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_PUSH_NOTIFICATION” />
      <Capability Name=”ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT” />

This was pretty simple to update. This is what my WMappManifest.xml file looked like after I did the update.

Not too shabby thus far. When I compiled my application the only thing that stopped me was having the Visible property enabled to true on the shell:ApplicationBar tag.

Just remove this property and you should be up and running smoothly after performing the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh update. Hope this helps.