The June 2013 update for the Windows Phone Toolkit is now available.
“In the June 2013 update we fixed top issues reported for the October 2012 release and added localization support for all 51 countries or regions supported in Windows Phone 8,” writes Windows Phone Program Manager Rohan Thakkar in a blog post over on the Windows Phone Developer Blog.
Instead of an MSI-based installer, you get the June 2013 update for the toolkit from NuGet, or by compiling directly from source code. Here are some details for downloading and installing the toolkit:
- If you have Visual Studio 2012 installed, congratulations, you already have NuGet!
- If you don't already have NuGet installed, go to http://nuget.org and install the NuGet Visual Studio extension.
- Be sure that you have NuGet version 2.1 or later for Windows Phone 8 projects.
- After you have NuGet installed, install the Windows Phone Toolkit package from http://nuget.org/packages/wptoolkit.
- Optionally, you can download the source and compile the assembly yourself.
- If you're compiling the source yourself, you'll also need the Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 to avoid warnings that the localized .resx files are missing.
For more detail on what’s new in the June 2013 update, head on over to the Windows Phone Developer Blog.
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Jeff Meisner
Microsoft News Center Staff