Windows Phone 7.1 [Mango] Beta Released

Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/

I'm pleased to announce that the beta release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools that support Mango will be available for download today: Matt Bencke General Manager, Windows Phone Developer and Marketplace Experiences.

Note: I took above image and statement from http://windowsteamblog.com/

This was one of the most waited releases.

You can download it from here.

On successfully installing Mango on your system, you will get the following project templates under the Silverlight for Windows Phone tab.



You can choose a target window version as well. The Mango version is 7.1.



New Features are as follows

1. New Back ground processing.
   
   I am going to love this feature most. Now you can download a file in the background while another application is running in the foreground. That was not the case with WebClient.
    
2. New Profiler and Emulator for testing.
   
   
    
3. Location support.
   
   
    
4. Silverlight 4.0 and integration of XNA with Silverlight 4.0 for a better gaming experience.
5. IE 9 as browser.
   
   
    
6. Sockets for communication.
7. Local SQL for Structured structure.
8. Fast Application switching etc.

If you want to work with a demo code sample, You can go here

For learning in detail go here.