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Welcome to the Windows Phone Developer Feedback site
This forum focuses on the developer platform (APIs, runtimes, and controls) that you use to build great app experiences for Windows Phone. Additional WPDev forums are available using the links along the right of the page. Consumer features suggestions should be submitted to the Windows Phone Suggestion Box site (http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/).
Suggestions provided via the WPDev UserVoice forum will be reviewed and read by the Windows Phone developer platform team, providing feedback to help with planning ideas and to better understand how developers are using the development platform, and all suggestions will be considered.
Two important notes about this site: (a) List items (and item rankings) represent community interest in features, and does not represent an actual priority list for the product team; and (b) Suggestions made using this forum will be moderated if they do not actually represent a feature request.
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VPN Support
My country has banned facebook and twitter, which means i need use vpn 2 connect facebook.
2,267 votesThank you for the suggestion and commentary. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Universal Plug and Play Framework - UPnP / DLNA
Please add full support for UPnP 1.1 / DLNA for third-party applications - perhaps even DPWS for potential future devices. The phone as a media / device controller is growing in popularity (ex: Sonos controllers).
1,426 votesThank you for the suggestion and commentary. While we have made progress on this front in the 8.0 developer platform, this suggestion is still not fully implemented. That being said, know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Support intercepting incoming calls and message
It would be great if we will get some support for intercepting incoming calls and smss
798 votesThank you for the suggestion and additional comments. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
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Add a GrantAccountAccessTask for obtaining temporary access to social media accounts
Social networking APIs, like Facebook, are constantly adding new features. Proving access to the authentication directly (even if it were temporary) would allow applications to use the most up-to-date social networking SDK to provide better features for their users.
A "GrantAccountAccessTask" could, for example, ask the user for temporary access (including what permissions are needed). If the user did not have an account configured for that provider, they could be given the chance to create one (or simply redirected to the social network providers website).
692 votesThank you for the suggestion and the spirited commentary. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
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Add HTTP accept-encoding gzip header support in WebClient
As of now, it's not possible to set the accept-encoding header : it would be so usefull to be able to set gzip compression to save bandwidth especially on 3G !
622 votesThank you for the suggestion and commentary. While we have not fully implemented this capability in the 8.0 release, the team tells me that it is possible to set this for GETs in this release. That being said, please know that this is also definitely on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Keep sockets running until app is officially closed
I was excited about sockets support until I found out that on every single app I downloaded that use sockets, if I switch to a different app, the start screen, or turn off my phone's display, the socket disconnects. This sucks, for a number of reasons.
When switching away from my app, *as long as my app is still in the task switcher*, I want to be able to suspend the UI while maintaining my socket connection (and any necessary base operations required to do so). I don't want to have to reconnect to IRC or SSH or RDP every…
321 votesThank you for the suggestion and commentary. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases as we look at continuing to improve the background execution experience for apps.
Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Extend the DeviceNetworkInformation with MNC and MMC
Extend the DeviceNetworkInformation with the MNC (Mobile Network Code) and MMC (Mobile Country Code) values. We have an application that needs this information, and we cannot get it from the current DeviceNetworkInformation.CellularMobileOperator property, because the operator name can change over time.
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Authenticated Proxy support in Code (HTTPWebrequest / WCF / Sockets)
Currently it's not possoble to make connections behind proxy servers that require authentication.
This very much limits business type apps that can use resources or run apps while connected to a work network.It's only currently possible via the web browser.
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HttpWebRequest - ability to set referrer
Add Ability to set referrer and other custom headers when using HttpWebRequest
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Self Signed Certification SSL HTTPS
For those of us wanting to provide free applications it would be nice if the WP7 supported self signed certs or the very least a widely known free SSL authority.
Add ServicePointManager.
Or at the very least add a free service to your accepted list of SSL authorities. Like cacert.org for instance.
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Support for Wifi-Direct
Support for Wifi-Direct enables a lot of user experiences like fast device to device communication. It is supported on Windows 8 and I really hope this will be added soon to Windows Phone.
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802.1x EAP TTLS
Many universities use 802.1x authorizations for their wifi networks. On WM6.5 a program called SecureW2 was used however there is no such program for Windows Phone 7. On and Android and other iOS devices there are methods to connect to 802.1x networks. Will there be any new implementation of this in any new updates for windows phone?
46 votes
Laura Reed
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Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback to Windows Phone! This forum is focused on developer requests, so don’t forget to vote for this feature on the end user forum http://windowsphone.uservoice.com.
Looks like this one is the top related idea… http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/suggestions/2281269-add-eap-tls-authentication-support-for-wifi -
HttpWebRequest - ability to set empty (custom) http headers
I am using a open source API called OpenStack Storage (http://openstack.org/projects/storage/) that requires passing empty headers to remove certain custom metadata entries. The library being used by WP (HttpWebRequest) doesn't allow passing empty headers. It is unacceptable simply because according to RFC 2616 Section 4.1 (Header Field Definitions), the message headers of an HTTP 1.1 message value is optional. This is limiting me to provide customers to fully use my app for stuff like removing entries on their objects. The error I receive is something like "The header xxxxx has an empty value".
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Disable 3G when phone is locked
When the phone is locked (i.e. usually in my pocket, give users the option to disable 3G and just use edge for notifications etc.) Once the phone is unlocked and being used, 3G re-enables in the background for web browsing etc unless a Wi-Fi network is active. I'm sure that this would take normal day to day battery life well over the 10 hours or so that most people need.
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Open access for XBOX Live achievements
Give ability to create games that have access for xbox live achievements. It doesn't have to be full access. Still only partners can have a "Xbox live" mark on their game icon, but having a one place for achievements, leader boards and friends would be great (WP7 Live?)
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Socket APIs and duplex WCF communication
Socket APIs and duplex WCF communication
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Fix UdpAnySourceMulticastClient to properly support SSDP broadcasts
SSDP (used in UPnP) relies on UDP multicast for discovery. Currently UdpAnySourceMulticastClient allows for the listening to existing SSDP traffic, as well as sending a solicitation (M-SEARCH) out requesting that UPnP devices advertise themselves to the solicitor.
When a device replies to the M-SEARCH message it sends a unicast message to the IP & port that the M-SEARCH message was sent from.
There is no way for a WP7 application using UdpAnySourceMulticastClient or Socket to listen on the correct port, thus requiring a great deal of time to be spent in any UPnP application when doing device discovery.
Proper socket…
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Keep alive WiFi in when phone is locked to be able to have WCF app that let receive notifications
I am very intersting in develop app in WCF that let me to receive notificaction from the server or other clients, but this is impossible for three main reasons:
1.- WiFi is disabled when the phone is locked.
2.- It's not possible to have an app in background that listens the communication channel.
3.- WCF don't let duplex communication.22 votes -
Ability to Send SMS in code without showing SMS Composer screen
Ability to Send SMS in code without showing SMS Composer screen
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Support to WiFi TTLS authentication suport for
private/corporate WiFi authentication with a certificate is not supported at Mango.
18 votes
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