Windows Phone and Mobile developers are waiting for Microsoft to reveal the development environment for the new WPO7 Series platform. This will happen at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas 14. – 17. March. Until then Microsoft employees find themselves “hunted down” for information and leaks on what to come.
Leaks are starting to spill out and wmpoweruser.com and engadget.com has released leaked documents on development guidelines and policies.
While reading this i can finally ”confirm” that WPO7 Series is based on Windows CE 6. For us developers this is great news!
- An application process can now use up to 1GB of memory, limited by available memory on the device. A huge improvement from the limit of 32mb in Windows CE 5.
- An application can now spawn an almost unlimited amount of threads, Each primary thread can ”host” up to to 32 768 threads with 256 different priority levels. Which should be enough for the most of us.
The biggest change in the way we create applications will be in the presentation layer. WPO7 Series will have two UI engines.
- A Silverlight UI Framework for event driven, XAML based applications.
- An XNA UI Framework for loop-based games.
I have been waiting for the Silverlight UI Framework for soooo long :) – and putting the Windows.Forms engine to rest will be a happy funeral. I do hope they have managed to put the whole Silverlight framework on the phone and not just a subset.
I am really looking forward to be at MIX10 to get first hand knowledge and experience with this.
Congrats on another fun, informative show. This is fast becoming a regular weekly “must listen” :-)
Just one request – you mentioned a twitter id. It’s hard to work out what these are just from audio, perhaps you could add them as links to the written description?
Thanks,
Ian
Oops posted to wrong window. Sorry!