I want to develop an application for my nokia lumia 1320.I 've searched and found that UWP only develops for windows 10 phone but my phone cant be further updated to windows 10 from windows 8.1.Please guide me through.I 've looked for older versions of VS but i guess MS has removed them.
Thanks in advance
You need to use VS2015 to develop for WP81. You are right it is not exactly easy for find an installer for VS2015, but links in this article work: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2015/07/download-visualstudio-2015.html#2ial3gRLXvav52pU.97
Related
I am an experienced dev that haven't been writing too much code lately, so a bit rusty and would like to have some help in creating the right environment for developing apps for BOTH Win Phone 8.1 (which is what I am carrying on me and would like to test with) and also Win 10 apps (UWP). This is in order to save myself a lot of time in trial and error, which is what I have been doing lately without success.
I have a box at home that is now Windows 10, and I think it was Windows 8 when I bought it. It has both VS 2013 and VS 2015, and I tried to download all the right SDK's to be able to use the Windows Phone 8.1 emulator. It was a nightmare, including going to the BIOS and enabling the Hyper-V thing (I think it worked at some point). Currently I'm having too many problems related to the dev environment, and its getting frustrating. Even the Win 10 emulator is not working. So no UWP emulator nor Windows Phone 8.1 emulator for me right now.
So instead of tackling these problems one by one, my plan is to buy myself a new laptop and build it right, with everything that I need in order to be able to write both Win Phone 8.1 apps, as well as Xamarin, and Windows 10 apps.
I'm wondering if I can ask for a comprehensive list of specifications for me, including recommended OS version (Will Win 7 work? I prefer it), VS version, SDK's, etc.. My goal is that after I buy and setup this laptop, all i'll have to do is just choose the right project and start writing.
Thanks.
Wow, downvoted just like that - not sure why so much.
If someone is looking for an answer or pointer, here's a reply in another forum, which helped me at least:
VS 2017 does not support development of Windows 8.1 store apps - phone or PC. See this link for platform compatibility. You will need to fallback to using VS 2015 for any Windows 8.1 projects. I do Windows 8.1 and 10 development on a single system and it works fine. You just have to have both VS 2015 & 2017 installed. Windows 7 will not work for developing 8.1 and 10 apps. Windows 8.1 has a Universal app target that allowed you to create a single app for PC and phone (I've never used it), but it is nothing like the Windows 10 UWP platform.
Is it possible to develop Windows 8 app using Visual Studio Express Windows Phone? The questions might look very silly, but I am very new to Windows app development. So please help.
Here you go, straight from the horses mouth. So yes!
Here is what you want, you can target both wp8.1and w8.1.
I remember you used to get the express alongside the w7.x sdk, terrible annoying if you were already sitting on pro or ultimate ;)
Hope it helps! (I would rather not install the expres on my computer as I already have ultimate installed, so I only trust what the article there says.)
Cheers,
Stian
I am having a nokia lumia 720 ,for which half of the screen touch is not working.So I decided to make a app which clicks internally (like a mouse pointer for screen) as changing the display at my place is difficult(not having enough money) I am using windows phone 8.1,visual studio 2012 and my desktop OS is windows 8 32 bit(not activated,trail version) can any body help me what are the tools required for developing windows phone app at my case.I have searched MSDN where I didn't get much help.
You need to register as an app developer.
Then download the tools.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Visual Studio 2013 may be required for Windows Phone 8.1 app development. You should be able to use the free Express edition.
I've just recently finished doing the 2D XNA game tutorial at college. Now I have to do a screencast demonstrating changes I've made to the game at home on my windows 8 system. I have Visual studio 2010 installed and XNA 4.0. I can open the game project up in Visual C# and ammend any part of the project I need to but I can not run the game.
I have tried to Install the Windows Phone Developer Tools as suggested in the XNA tutorial by when I attempt the installation it says "Windows 7 or Windows Vista is required.
Is there a work around so I can get the game to run so I can screencast it running?
Thanks
I recently ran into the same problem. As far as I know Microsoft dropped XNA and stopped the support for it under Windows 8 (Someone may correct me if I'm wrong). But not all hope is lost MonoGame is the open source Mono port for the XNA framework which should work under Windows 8.
This link shows how to migrate the mentioned tutorial to MonoGame and run it under Windows 8:
http://solutions.devx.com/ms/msdn/windows-client/windows-8-xna-and-monogame-part-3-code-migration-and-windows-8-feature-support.html
As far as I'm aware MonoGame's content pipeline doesn't work and you still need to bake the content to xnb files.
I hope I could help
I realize your question is stale by now and hopefully figured it out, but in case others have similar issues, I thought I'd reply anyway. I just ran that tutorial's game on my Windows 8 PC with no problems using Visual Studio 2010 and XNA 4 - so it works fine on Windows 8 as Microsoft still supports XNA 4 on the Windows 8 desktop (just not for Windows Store apps). The question seems to be "how to install XNA 4 on Windows 8 and what to do about problems that might arise in attempting that?". For that question, see the responses here: How to install the XNA Game Studio 4.0 in Windows 8?
Where can I find the SDK for new Windows Phone 7?
Couple of more resources:
Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
Silverlight.net learn videos for Windows Phone 7
Programming for Windows Phone 7 ebook by Charles Petzold
Edit: As the no-commenting-down-voter reminded me, these steps are no longer required as the installer now includes everything you need.
In addition to Rowland's answer, you'll need a few things installed in order to use Blend (for Silverlight animations):
Expression Blend 4 Beta
Microsoft Expression Blend Add-in Preview for Windows Phone
Microsoft Expression Blend SDK Preview for Windows Phone
Here are some other resources you might find useful:
Windows Phone Development on MSDN
Windows Phone Class Library Reference
Code Samples (not included with the SDK download; rather limited, but a good place to bookmark)
It hasn't been officially released as of yet. I heard it would be detailed at MIX.
A community Tech Preview of the tools is available through the Windows Mobile Developer website
You can find the new released SDK at the Windows Phone for Developers homepage.
Click the "Download the Developer Tools" link on the right hand side.
It includes a specialized version of Visual Studio 2010 Express and a device emulator.
Hey the windows phone SDK can be found on Microsoft's website here:
http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started