The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update

Here's some useful information from the documentation team:

The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update includes bug fixes, a new emulator, and utilities. Alongside the release of the tools we have also published an update to MSDN that focuses on documenting key aspects of this release, known issues/limitations and additional content for developers. The highlights of this release are listed below and also available in the What’s New topic on MSDN.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

§ NEW DOCUMENTATION

o Release Notes for the January 2011 Update

o How to: Test Copy and Paste in Windows Phone Emulator

o Deploying and Testing on a Physical Windows Phone Device

o Troubleshooting Windows Phone Developer Tools

o Frame Rate Counters in Windows Phone Emulator

o New VB code samples

§ Keyboard Input Scope Sample

§ Model-View-ViewModel Pattern Sample

§ Silverlight Sound Sample

o Bing Maps Silverlight Control – Working with Pushpins in the Map Control

o Bing Maps Silverlight Control – Setting the Map View

§ UPDATED DOCUMENTATION

o Performance Considerations in Applications for Windows Phone

o Bing Maps APIs are now included in the class library reference

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.AutomationPeers

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.Core

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.Design

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.Overlays

§ Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.Platform