Mobile SDK for Windows Apps2.0
Transforming Windows apps into Mobile apps
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The latest updates as of July 17, 2013:
This is a major release aimed at improving several different aspects of the SDK. The core concept is to improve the developer and user experience through better tools and API.
The new Emulator allows developers to use Windows 7 to build and test applications with the SDK. There is no requirement for XenApp/XenDesktop to get started on a project.
There was a great deal of interest in the TakePicture API with some excellent feedback from developers and customers. The idea was expanded to include video and audio clips as well. Also, the API allows more control over the various aspects of the capture including the quality of the picture/video/audio clip. Lower quality allows for faster transfer over slower networks. CapturePicture also allows for a thumbnail and detailed metadata information.
Virtual Device Object sounds a bit fancy but really it just means that the latest SDK software supports concurrent applications in a better way. The original release did not co-ordinate between different applications trying to use the mobile device. Instead, it typically would stop requests that happened in the background. With VDO it is now possible to switch between applications and have it automatically restore the settings for the focused application. This feature should be transparent to the application and the user.