Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW

The Windows Phone Developer Blog - Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Now Available!

"This is an exciting week for Windows Phone 7.5 developers. Yesterday, we started rolling out the update to customer handsets and shared lots of developer goodness and started rolling out RTM updates to dev devices; today, I’m pleased to announce that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RTW release is now available on the Microsoft Download Center for immediate download and update.

The existing SDK has allowed developer to create and publish apps optimized for Windows Phone 7.5 since August. The Release to Web (RTW) release consists of seven additional release languages, final finishing touches to the tooling experience, a handful of bug fixes, and additional upgrade logic to provide a better installation process for users coming from earlier tools. In total, the RTW release is available in the following nine languages:

English (en-US)

French (fr-FR)

German (de-DE)

Italian (it-IT)

Japanese (ja-JP)

Korean (ko-KR)

Russian (ru-RU)

Spanish (es-ES)

Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)

With this release, we recommend/ask that Windows Phone developers do the following three things…

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Microsoft Downloads - Windows Phone SDK 7.1

The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you with all of the tools that you need to develop applications and games for both Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 devices

Version: 7.1
Date Published: 9/25/2011

Change Language: Chinese (Traditional) English French German Italian Japanese Korean Russian Spanish

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The Windows Phone SDK includes the following

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Emulator

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies

Silverlight 4 SDK and DRT

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Extensions for XNA Game Studio 4.0

Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7

Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone OS 7.1

WCF Data Services Client for Window Phone

Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone

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Instructions

If a pre-release version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Beta or RC) is installed on the machine, please uninstall it before installing this product.

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Note: this release is also available in .iso format.

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Nothing like a few Mango's in the morning. I have to say, the Mango roll-out seems MUCH smoother than NoDo's. They said they learned a lesson and that seems to be the fact. Love to see them talk the talk and walk the walk...