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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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18 votes
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Subscribe to Custom Podcast with URL
In Mango I do not see a way to subscribe to a podcast by entering in the URL. There should be a way to do this. I am liking the new download over WiFi feature.
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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 -
Custom CaptureSource to be able to use with FileSink. We need the ability to produce encoded audio/video stream/file (like a movie maker).
To be able to make a movie (and share it with the rest of the World via youtube) we need an ability to generate MPEG4/WMV stream/file by utilizing hardware codecs (through FileSink). Also some way to change (enhance) audio/video captured from mic/camera before it will be encoded and saved into file.
18 votes -
play midi sounds
native Midi file support
17 votes -
Gmail Todo List Account Sync
Please allow the access to Gmail's Todo list sync when a google account is added on the windows phone. Under calendar I see the todo list of hotmail and I like it, it would be great if I can add the gmail's ones too and have the ability to make changes when sync happens or just have the ability to add todo items and those get sync to the phone.
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Access to network share
I have a file server which hosts a lot of my documents, pictures and music. With Android it´s easy to browse the server with "ES File Explorer". This is single reason why I keep my Android phone around.
I really wish it was possible to access my file server from my Lumia 800 too.
It´s not only tedious to use Zune for copying my files over, it´s also creating redundancy by keeping copies on another device.
Yet another reason - it uses valuable space on my Lumia 800 which wouldn´t be necessary if I could acces the file on the…17 votes -
Create a new Route object without using RouteQuery
Windows Phone 8 includes a new Map control. It has a new feature to add a route that will be displayed under street names. Street names over the route will be shown in another color and are moved to stay always in center. To add a route to the map you have to create MapRoute object that accepts only Route object in it's constructor. But Route object does not have public constructor. The only possibility to create Route is RouteQuery class. This is a problem! RouteQuery uses online service to calculate the route. Apps can't show the traveled route at…
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Native SQLite database support
In addition to the existing database support, please add support for SQLite databases, without a LINQ layer like for SQLCE. Just a raw database with SQL commands like we are used to. SQLite is platform independent, that means it is easy to exchange data between Windows, Windows Phone, Android and iOS devices.
17 votes -
Access to currently running call information
like Name of that caller
Phone Number
Etc.17 votes -
Please fix IE9 one-time-generated url bug on Mango
With WP7 I could view pdf and office dos with the WebBrowserTask. With Mango this is not possible anymore when having one-time-generated urls.
The request is now being called twice! Please fix this... otherwise my (and some other) apps/functions are not usable anymore :-(See: http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/88705/548248.aspx
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Allow GPS updates more frequently when app deactivated.
You are running an application that records your GPS position after traveling so many feet. If for some reason your application gets deactivated (you receive a phone call); your recorded track will be missing data for the time you were on the phone. This can be a serious problem if you need to follow the track back out. What this forces the user to do is carry a hand-held GPS as well as a phone when the track log is important.
17 votes -
Open the API so someone can write a sycn to Outlook direct
Open up the OS enough for someone to write a professional level direct sync app for Outlook on the desktop.
17 votes -
Free Apps with Donation in addition to Paid Apps with Trial
With WP7 we have the unique ability to offer Trails for Paid Apps, which is great. However, it would be nice if developers could offer Free Apps with a possibility to users for voluntary donations. Some devs do the workaround and offer a Paid app, with the trial version having no restrictions at all (if the user clicks 'buy', he essentially donates to the dev).
However, this workaround has the disadvantage of the app not apprearing in the 'free' category, though they are actually free. Therefore, it would be great if devs could put apps in the marketplace offering two…
16 votes -
SIP Client native
more and more people telephone over voip but there are many different provider. they all use Sip so it would be great to have a native sip client integrated.
16 votes -
roaming application data
There is a feature in windows 8 for roaming application data which allows Windows 8 automatically transitions certain application data between user devices.
I suggest to have access to user's roaming data from WP8.
For example, user can play a windows version of a game as well as a mobile version of the game and scores will add up.
Follow up:
It looks like Microsoft is planning to do that but the functions are not implemented yet.16 votes -
call recorder
there must be an application to record the conversation on a call.
16 votes -
Better Store Analytics
Currently, there is no way of knowing if a user converts from our own advertising campaign or "out of the blue". It would be great if we could link to an app's store page with a campaign code, and get the breakdown by campaign codes in our daily stats. For example:
United States Paid (after trial) 32
United States Paid (after trial, campaign XYZ) 64
United States Paid (without trial) 16
United States Paid (without trial, campaign XYZ) 48
United States Trial 192
United States Trial (campaign XYZ) 28416 votes -
Put LED notification
Put (blinking) LED notification when having incoming notification to save effort every time do not have to unlock screen and checking any notification. Nokia symbian phones does have, would like window phone will have too.
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Implement two events which informs an app that a phone call starts and ends.
I want to create an application which creates an automated statistic of the time I spent to my phone calls.
16 votes
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