To replicate the native transitions and animations is very difficult because it is complex and the performance is always bad. Adding SDK support for Turnstile, Continium, etc. would really help to develop good apps.

Allow us to view our device on the screen when connected with usb. This would be great for demos.

Ability to upload app from Visual Studio should be given. The metadata used in submission should be part of app. By doing this, the repeated submit form filling would be avoided and submit metadata can be versioned along with source code.

There are a number of factors preventing TDD and BDD in the current release:

* Pure logic unit tests can't be run directly in Visual Studio using MSTest
* Only available testing library is a link on Jeff Wilcox's blog (at least add it to the WP Toolkit)
* No support for running the testing framework in a CI environment
* No UI automation support
* SDK cannot be installed on a build server (without modification, which is not supported)
* SDK installs Visual Studio (not possible to install only emulator + libraries)

Any improvement here would be greatly appreciated.

A an ability to the emulator that can emulate a bad data connection so we can discover performance problems before our clients receive it. Things like throttling and dropouts

Provide the means to communicate with a Serial Port using Bluetooth

It's realy a shame that the current emulator can't be run within a Virtual Machine. Because development environment changes very often (different SDKs and so on) I try to use special VMs for every development environment. Thus is really helpfull in order to have a stable development machine.

Only with the current emulator this is not possible. I had to install VS2010 with all SDKs on my (until then - clean Development PC). Which hurt me very much.

Please update the emulator to run in a VM (Hyper-V / VirtualBox / VM-Ware).

Distribute more application bar icons in SDK (at least each one used by built-in applications); provide forum/marketplace for other artwork, including control templates & styles.

I would like to see the metadata be part of the project in VS. This would allow (as others have suggested) a more streamlined process for tracking changes and perhaps even uploading a single package without having to fill in the blanks. An editor (like properties/settings) would be great.

With the ability to read the serial number of NFC tags, we have a value that can't be tampered with. In this way, we can make a system that checks the authenticity of tags, by verifying that serial numbers are contained in a database, for example.

For a business scenario, it is necessary to be able install/upgrade an app from rhe company server/intranet, not only from MS marketplace. A Clickonce like solution will be perfect.

There are several certification requirements from Microsoft that are impossible to test without a physical Windows Phone device. The requirements that involve phone calls, text messages, and zune hub music are all impossible to test from within the emulator.

It'd be very convenient for developers without actual devices to test their apps for the certification requirements if everything could actually be tested with the emulator.

Like windows mobile 6.5 and older version.There is no option for cold and hard boot in windows phone 7 emulator.

Please, provide a possibility to type text into textboxes from hardware keyboard instead of typing it by clicking on emulator QUERTY keyboard

I really dont like having to re-program my application just to test it with fake GPS points and i wish we could have an add-on to like Bing maps on IE9 so we could set were we are on the map and the WP7 Emulator would know were we want to be.

The emulator should include a treeview control to display a live view of:

Page States
App State
IsolatedStorageSettings
IsolatedStorageFile(s)

The ideal would include some kind of object drill down in the style of Mole for WPF, but even ToStrings would work. This combined with file drag drop from Windows Explorer would make app life cycle debugging a lot simpler.

Now it is not possible to accept tcp connection, ie to build an internal web server or tcp socket server. android has it :( ....

Allow applications to define custom shaders in HLSL. This will allow sophisticated game graphics and real-time image processing. Also allow access to MP4 encoder library (hardware accelerated) so apps can generate their own videos. This should also allow apps to read existing videos, modify frames and write them back.