Inside Windows Phone 19:Mango documentation (Channel 9)

Inside Windows Phone 19:Mango documentation

Posted: Jun 10, 2011 at 9:07 PM

By: Jaime Rodriguez

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In this episode Luke Nyswonger, the doc lead for Windows Phone, does a walk-through of all the great improvements they made to the docs in the Mango beta release.

Pay attention so you don't miss:

A great "What's new" page that you can use to get to all the feature overviews, code-samples, etc..
The samples and how-to walkthroughs are now a bit more scenario oriented. For example, their sockets demo is a full blown tic-tac-toe game, their tiles sample has every possible tile option, etc.
They moved the User experience Design guidelines from a PDF to an HTML format and they literally doubled the amount of content that went into the UX guidelines.
They moved the certification requirements from a PDF to an HTML format, and they have included the test steps so you can ensure you test ahead of time (or if you fail certification you have repro steps).
They have a very nice "developer resources page" in the apphub that aggregates all the content that Windows phone developers will need.

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Daniel

Jun 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM

One thing that i am missing in the documentation is about self-signed certificates in the emulator. Is it possible to install them? And how about an API to ignore certificates errors? It already exists?
smoyna

Jul 28, 2011 at 7:56 AM

For phone dev, this will definitely be an improved experience. Thanks for that.
That was indeed a very bad move switching dexplore to launching the browser. The lightweight viewer is a small step back toward what we had. Certainly there's a case to be made for wanting the docs when I'm disconnected but in my mind the better argument for not wanting the online docs is privacy. I don't want MS to track my usage of APIs.

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