What's New in SCE Starter Kit Beta 2

Beta 2 of the Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit introduces many exciting new features, including:

Gallery Feed in Subscription Center

Subscription Center now includes a Gallery Feed which showcases other SCE applications which the user may be interested in downloading. From the Details view of the Gallery feed, the user can learn about the apps that are available and click to launch the browser and navigate to an installation page.

Subscription Center Update Mechanism

Subscription Center can now automatically detect if an update is available and will prompt the user to launch the browser and install the update when necessary.

Proxy Server Configuration for Subscription Center & SceReader

Users can now specify Proxy settings through a new Proxy tab under the Settings in Subscription Center. Users can choose to automatically detect proxy settings, specify a manual configuration, or connect directly to the internet. In addition, we’ve also exposed APIs in SceReader which enable SCE application authors to create proxy setting UI in SCE applications.

Dynamic URI support

SCE Starter Kit Beta 2 includes support for dynamically generated XML files in the data feed. Instead of requiring static XML pages for the feeds, we now support scenarios such as generating feeds on-the-fly using a PHP program which creates XML URIs with the same index.php and different parameters.

Visual Studio Project Templates

The Starter Kit now includes project templates to help make it easier to load SCE applications in Visual Studio.

Fixed IPC Issue

A bug in Beta 1 caused inter-process communication between Subscription Center and the Reader application to expire after five minutes, preventing the Reader from automatically loading data from the cache following a feed sync. Beta 2 includes a fix for this issue which enables Subscription Center to notify the Reader application that the data has been updated.