Mango Preview: Mango Development Tools To Be Released Today (Update: Now Available!)

So do you remember those Mango Development SDK that was announced during MIX '11 earlier this year? Well they're coming out...today! Andy Lees announced it during the presentation and Microsoft's Windows Phone Developer Blog was promptly updated. Visit the link for all of the juicy details and start coding!

UPDATE 2: Downloads are now officially up. Get it from here!

UPDATE: While the download link itself is down thanks to a tidal wave of excited developers, you can start stalking this post in the App Hub for when you can sneak in and get your keys to the Mango app kingdom. Plus we now know a bit more info about the tools:

We listened to what developers told us they wanted, and in Windows Phone Mango we're delivering outstanding new features including background processing, massive Live Tile functionality updates, direct camera access, sockets, a new profiler and emulator, deep linking into apps, local database support, and a new web browser control based on IE9 that supports HTML5.

Concurrent with this release of the tools, we’ve updated our official documentation in the What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools topic in the MSDN Library, created 22 new code samples, and released 10 new hands-on labs specific to Windows Phone Mango.

We’ve also updated our Game Development page to highlight some of the new resources available for phone game developers using Windows Phone Mango. New game developer resources include an updated version of Game State Management, guides explaining what’s new in the platform (including the Silverlight/XNA Framework integrated application model and Visual Basic support), and more samples and articles.

Source: Windows Phone Developer Blog, App Hub