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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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Callback for all tasks and launchers
Would be nice to have a callback on for example the phonecalltask so that we can determine wether or not the user actually did press "call" or "cancel". Same for other tasks and launchers.
27 votes -
WP7 Notify App when call ends
When user is with in an app and there is an active call in progress the App should receive notification when call ends. Currently there is no support for this and really hard to understand when the call ends. This for example can be used to show meeting minutes screen as soon as a call finishes. I see more uses than simple example I have mentioned below.
27 votes -
Support for multiple calendars
Support for multiple calendars, e.g. Multiple Google Calendars from one Google account, would be very useful.
26 votes -
Develop Windows Phone 8 app from Windows 7 computer
I think you should allow Windows 7 computer owners the ability to develop Windows 8 phone apps. They have a device to develop on, I believe the only thing you can't do is use the emulator. I have everything up and running, except VS express 2012 won't recognize my windows 8 phone and deploy to it, so I can test my app. Can I manually place the .xap file using file explorer, or is there some way to fix this? It gives me this error 'Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.PlatformNotFoundException'
Is it possible to fix this?26 votes -
Error Reporting Service
System supported application error reporting service, that would report back to developers application crashes and details.
26 votes -
Add WebAuthenticationBroker to WP7 and WP8
Port over the Windows 8 Class "WebAuthenticationBroker" from Windows 8.
26 votes -
No Pin Option for Kids Corner
If you activate a pin for the phone Kids Corner automatically gets a pin too. This means that you as a parent have to unlock the phone for your child. (Or give them the pin which kind of defeats the purpose.)
Feature suggestion: I would like to be able to set "no pin" in the settings for Kids Corner. Additional feature option would be to specify a different pin for Kids Corner (1234) :)
It makes no sense to have a pin for Kids Corner if you have, say, only configured a few games in that area for your child!
25 votes -
Support Monthly/Yearly subscriptions for app purchasing.
As app developers we are currently stuck with 2 methods of generating revenues 1) one time app payment 2) Ads.
I would like to see a monthly/yearly subscription model introduced that let me charge users $5 a year for my app for example.
This would mean we could make ad free apps that developers are motivated to keep adding features to over time since they are generating ongoing revenues.
25 votes -
Email Access API
Please provide Access for Emails to BackUp the content to allow the windows phone Developers to implement an application regarding Emails.
25 votes -
Add more details to the crash report
The following additional fields should be added to the crash report:
Date of crash
Phone model25 votes -
SmsComposeTask completed event
The SmsComposeTask does not provide any events.
I think we need Completed event and something like SmsResult that can be used. Currently some Tasks exhibit this behaviour and some do not.
Please make it a standard mode of usage for each task.
25 votes -
Theme aware Splash Screen Images
I like the functinality of the SplashScreenImage.jpg file, but it's too limited for what I'm trying to do. At a minimum I need to have 2 images that are auto selected based on the phone's current theme. SplashScreenImageLight and SplashScreenImageDark would be great!
After that, it would be great to have the option to select an image from IsolatedStorage so that my app can update its splash screen image as needed.
24 votes -
keyboard
Allow the user the option of choosing a non qwerty keyboard layout, as a full keyboard can be really frustating at times due to the small keys.
24 votes -
Need ShellTile.TileData() function
Currently,we can CREATE/UPDATE a ShellTile using a ShellTileData,but can not to get ShellTileData from an existing ShellTile.
Please release ShellTile.TileData() function in next build.
24 votes -
TextBox height or width can beyond 2048 pixel limitation.
I understand the max size limitation to control. And there are some approach to work around on most of the controls. However, for some control, e.g. TextBox, it's a big problem.
24 votes -
Where is WP7.1 ADO.NET??
I don't believe that there is not ADO.NET! No SQL queries to run. Must redo all applications from Windows Mobile/MonoTouch/MonoDroid/WPF for WP7. I have the same core code running on the above platforms but to do it on WP7.1 I will have to rewrite! Unacceptable.
24 votes -
Extend the Share Picker for Office documents
Thisarticle:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff967563(v=vs.92).aspx
describes how to add an application to Share option in picture viewer.
I would like to do the same with Office documents.24 votes -
phone history threading
having come from iPhone and loving my WP7.5 device, i miss the threading of calls. example you call Mr. Smith 6 times and he calls you twice, have them collapsed into a list that you can expand, this reduces the size of the list and lets your be more organized. searching by missed, Called, and all would be great at well.
23 votes -
动态壁纸,或者和WIN7一样的幻灯片壁纸。 希望微软多用一些透明效果。
动态壁纸,或者和WIN7一样的幻灯片壁纸。 希望微软多用一些透明效果。 在软件栏可以分栏软件,而不是用搜索软件名的方式。
23 votes -
Video in MMS
Allow the user to send video in an MMS message. In mango, only sharing via email is supported.
23 votes
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