At the last WPUG meeting I asked some. Here are the results:
The most popular requests:
- Cut & paste / clipboard support x7
- Background processing / 3rd party multitasking x4
- Camera APIs x4
- Contact detail access (people hub integration) x3
- Built in barcode scanning x2
Other requests:
- A built in Physics engine
- A complete implementation of HttpWebRequest
- A personal details card that could be passed to apps to fill in my details
- Ability to change system wide background colour
- Access to tile sizing
- Dynamic language support
- Good twitter stuff
- Integrated security with user's Windows Live account
- Jump list silverlight control
- Managed Facebook wrapper
- More Metro integration from within XNA
- Peer comms
- Shared data between apps
- Built in animations
- SQL DB
- Swipe navigation elements
- VOIP
- XPath
And then the things that people didn't realise were already there:
- Bing Maps control x3
- Multiple calendars
- Pivot & Panorama controls
- Support for accelerometer in XNA
- OTA Updates
I'll let you draw your own conclusions from the results...
I've just started looking through the tools,still digging through them~Can we access the music+video hub to get to know the songs stored on the device?
ReplyDelete@Ravi You can integrate your app with the Music+Video hub via the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff769558(VS.92).aspx
ReplyDeleteIf you want to get details of what songs, etc. are in the hub, take a look at the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media Namespace. (Yes, you can access this namespace/assembly from a Silverlight app.)
Thanks a lot matt!
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