VB.NET and Bug Fixes for Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (v1.2.1)
Today’s release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (v1.2.1) has two important updates:
- Support for Visual Basic
- Bug fixes
You can download the latest drop here: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/releases/view/61952
Visual Basic
When we released on Monday we did not include updated project templates for Visual Basic – turns out that creating these project templates takes a long time, and we did not have enough cycles to complete it in time. However, we’ve had a few additional dates to finish this work, and we’re now providing Visual Basic support – this means can use this toolkit with Visual Basic and benefit from all the updates provided as part of the 1.2 release.
Bug Fixes
We also fixed a few bugs in this release. Many thanks to those of you who helped by reporting them so quickly!
- [Fixed] The VS on-screen documentation for "Windows Phone 7 Empty Cloud App" template is missing.
- [Fixed] Modify VSIX installation scripts to avoid errors when users have PowerShell Profile Scripts.
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- [Fixed] The CopyLocal property of the Microsoft.IdentityModel assembly is set to false in the sample and project template solutions. It has now been set to true.
- When creating a new project using the project template wizard:
- [Fixed] If the user sets an invalid ACS Namespace and Management Key, the application shows an non-descriptive error and generates an inconsistent solution.
- [Fixed] Using a real Azure Storage account and not selecting Use HTTPS option makes the generated solution fail when running it.
- [Fixed] An error is displayed when creating a new ‘Windows Phone Cloud Application’ project in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express.
- [Fixed] An error is displayed when creating a new ‘Windows Phone Cloud Application’ project in Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.
- [Fixed] The value of the PushServiceName setting is not replaced in the code generated with the project templates.
- [Fixed] The ACS sample was shipped with an invalid configuration and wrong instructions in the Readme document to configure them appropriately.
- [Fixed] The ApplePushNotification class is not used in the samples nor by the code generated with the project templates.
- [Fixed] The solutions for VWD and VPD do not build since some projects are missing.
- [Fixed] The error message shown in the ‘login’ page when there are connectivity issues is non-descriptive.
Again, many thanks to those of you who helped by reporting these bugs. Keep the feedback coming!
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BTW, there is a spelling error in one of the libraries.
WindowsPhone.Recipes.Push.Messasges should be WindowsPhone.Recipes.Push.Messages
HTH.
Thanks for the feedback, we’ll get it fixed.
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