Digest Mango

If you are reading this post because you love eating Mango !! Sorry , wrong blog -_-

Mango is the codename for the new Windows Phone and you can call it also Windows Phone 7.1 .

Users have to wait for Mango, Joe Belfiore , Microsoft vice president and director of Windows Phone program Management, said that Mango will be available in fall 2011 and developers will probably get the Mango update in a month ! Yeahhh just another 4 weeks

But you can test and explore the new Mango features ! The beta Windows Phone 7.1 developer tools were released on 24 May 2011 and you can download them from here .

Mango offers lots of new capabilities for developers , you can experience all the new developer features with the offline training course and the pre-release documentation .

Microsoft said that Mango contains about 500 new feature !!!! Let’s see the most important features:

• Windows Live Messenger and Facebook chat integration.
• Twitter , LinkedIn and Viadeo integration in the people hub.
• Outlook tasks support.
• Office 365 support with Skydrive and Sharepoint integration.
• Microsoft Lync support.
• Video uploads to Facebook.
• Support for HTML5 video playback.
• IE9 for Windows Phone.
• 16 new languages supported

and more and more features , i will let you discover them by yourselves.

You probably want to take a look to those links for  a better digestion to Mango :

• New API’s in Silverlight for Windows Phone OS 7.1
• What’s new in Silverlight for Windows Phone
• MVVM Light Toolkit patch for WP7 Mango Beta

 

I hope that was helpful , more to come about Mango

 

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