Hurray! More integration with Windows 8 powered devices!

The Windows Phone team announced on their blog today that the release of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update is now available for immediate download on the Microsoft Download Center. The two highlights of this update are:

  • Develop apps that work well on the new 256 MB devices
  • Use the WPSDK 7.1 to develop on machines running Windows 8
This update goes a long way to making it easier for folks to build apps that target both Windows Phone and Windows 8; the WPSDK 7.1.1 runs quite well side-by-side with Visual Studio ‘11’. Particularly with the Consumer Preview out, the ability to run the IDEs side-by-side has been a major request from our developer community.

For Windows Phone developers, this is a great opportunity to explore the Windows 8 marketplace as another channel for your applications.

Find out more about developing on Windows 8 in our ‘Build for Windows 8’ workshop this Friday as well.