I have the 32-bit version of Windows 10. I have installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, but I am unable to find the emulator for Windows Phone.
How can I test my application?
The Windows Phone SDK uses Hyper-V, which requires a 64-bit platform for the host.
See below for an excerpt. Note the requirements listed under Operating System.
System requirements for the emulator for Windows Phone 8
Your computer must meet the following requirements:
BIOS
In the BIOS, the following features must be supported:
Hardware-assisted virtualization.
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).
Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
RAM
4 GB or more.
Operating system
Windows 8
64-bit
Pro edition or higher
Source: MSDN
Notice Regarding Universal Apps (UWP)
Universal Apps targeting Windows 10 can be created and tested on a 32-bit (x86) platform, but you will be unable to build and test applications for 64-bit (x64) and ARM platforms.
Source: MSDN
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I would like learn a bit how to develop applications for windows phone 8.1, so I have installed Visual Studio 2013 Community.
But in the requierements I can see this:
For Windows Phone development:
Windows Phone 8.0 development requires Windows 8.1 (x64) or higher
Windows Phone 8.1 development requires Windows 8.1 (x86) or higher
For the Windows Phone emulators, Windows 8.1 (x64) Professional
edition or higher, and a processor that supports Client Hyper-V and
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
So for windows phone 8 I need windows x64 and for windows 8.1 I need x86? I can develop applications for windows phone 8.1 with the community version of visual studio?
Thank so much.
If you run Windows 8, you can develop apps for Windows Phone 8.1.
Architecture doesn't matter, I run a x64 W8.1 using the Express edition of VS2013, and can develop apps for ARM, x86, and x64 all the same.
I think the only reason to use Windows 8.1 is to use Universal App templates.
i would be developing windows phone app that would fit into windows phone 8 OS. I have a laptop which has windows 7 OS. Now the question is should i have to upgrade to windows 8 or is there a workaround?
Current Laptop - Windows 7 OS,64 bit, 4GB RAM
To run the Windows Phone 8.x SDK on your PC, you'll have to upgrade to Windows 8. If you're looking to get started with the latest 8.1 SDK, you'll need the Windows 8.1 update with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.
To run the emulators, you'll need to have Hyper-V active on your machine as it is required. If your machine doesn't support Hyper-V, the only options are to upgrade your device or run a Virtual Machine hosted in the cloud. Microsoft Azure provide great hosting for developer VMs at a relatively cheap cost.
The other option is to buy a Windows Phone 8 device as you don't require Hyper-V to debug your applications straight to a device. At the cost of some mid-range device, you'd be better actually getting a device.
I hope that helps :)
My laptop supports all the hardware requirements for running windows phone 8 sdk.
It has Windows 8 basic and not the Pro version.I have enabled Intel Virtual technology in the BIOS.But,Hyper-v client is not available in the windows features to activate Virtual machine.
Is there any way/possibility to run Windows Phone 8 sdk emulator and tools with Windows 8 basic OS?
You need to install a Pro version of Windows 8 in order to run the emulator. I think you can install the SDK, as far as your Windows 8 is a 64bit version, and develop with vs2012 and the SDK, but you need to use a device for testing.
If your Windows 8 edition isn't a 64bits one, you can't install even the SDK to develop.
This is such a terrible answer, the Win8 Standard edition comes in 64-bit and the SDK installation DOES NOT inform you that it will require Win8 Pro for the emulator. There is no "real" reason why you can't use the Standard edition except for Microsoft wanting you to upgrade to Pro.
I'm developing a windows phone application on Visual Studio 2010, Windows 8 x86. I've setup Visual Studio to Run as an administrator. Every time I try to run the windows phone 7 application, i have also updated sdk 7.1.1 but it still gives me this error:
Windows Phone: Deployment of application to device failed. Exception from HRESULT: 0x89721800
is there any solution regarding this?
Start from here! And you understand all.
for wp7.1
System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista
Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition
Installation requires 4 GB of free disk space on the system drive.
3 GB RAM
Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 or above capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver
The Windows Phone SDK 7.1 is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
for wp8
System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro
Operating system type:
Windows 8 64-bit (x64) client versions
Hardware:
6.5 GB of free hard disk space
4 GB RAM
64-bit (x64) CPU
Windows Phone 8 Emulator:
Windows 8 Pro edition or greater
Requires a processor that supports Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
If your computer meets the hardware and operating system requirements, but does not meet the requirements for the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 will install and run. However, the Windows Phone 8 Emulator will not function and you will not be able to deploy or test apps on the Windows Phone 8 Emulator.
Basically, you need Win 8 64x or Win7.
The Visual Studio datastore is corrupted.
Try:
Close all Visual Studio instances that may be currently running.
Delete the folder “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Phone Tools\CoreCon\10.0”
Launch a new instance of Visual Studio
More workarounds at reference link.
Reference: MSDN
Is it possible to install "Windows Phone 7 developer tools" on "Windows 7 Starter"?
Does the WP7 emulator run after install?
I have a old laptop Sony Vaio which has been upgrade into W7 Ultimate and VS2010 pro, but the graphic card is too old and WP7 emulator won't run.
Can anyone have try to run the WP7 emulator on a Win7 Starter edition?
I'm afraid the tools are not supported on Windows 7 starter edition.
From the download page:
System requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista
•Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions
except Starter Edition.
•Windows® 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions
except Starter Edition.
You might get VS to run, but I think you'll hit problems with the emulator as it runs in a VM, which Windows 7 Starter won't support.
I can't comment on using Windows 7 starter edition, however if the machine you are planning on using is an Intel Atom based netbook I think you may find that you struggle to run Visual Studio and the WP7 Device Emulator simultaneously.
I was certainly unable to the last time I tried on an Atom based machine, even with 3GB of RAM.