I have VM Virtual Box running a Windows Phone emulator. How do I get Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition to use it to test a Windows Phone app?
Apparently one is supposed to use the Device Emulator Manager to register emulators and it ought to be accessible from the Tools menu but its not there.
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I have windows 8.1 and right now Visual Studio 2015 is installing on my machine. Can I develop universal windows apps UWA for windows 10 from my windows 8.1 ?
If worth mentioning, I have another machine with windows 10 at home, and I think I read somewhere before I can use the other machine remotely to test my apps but I have been looking without finding how to do so.
Actually, this is possible. We can develop Universal Windows apps with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 8.1 and test them on a remote Windows 10 device.
For more info, please see Requirements in Develop apps for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 support
If you choose to develop Universal Windows apps with Visual Studio 2015 on a platform other than Windows 10, these are the restrictions:
Windows 8.1: You can’t run the app locally (only on a remote Windows 10 device). You can use the emulators in Visual Studio, but not the simulator.
Windows 7: You can’t run the app locally (only on a remote Windows 10 device). You can’t use the emulators or the simulator in Visual Studio either.
And for test on remote devices, please see Specifying a remote device in Deploying and debugging Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.
However, when using OS earlier than Windows 10, some Visual Studio features for Windows Universal development may be degraded, such as you can't use the XAML designer on Windows 8.1:
For a better experience of developing Windows Universal Apps, Windows 10 is strongly recommended.
This is not possible. You need Windows 10 to develop Windows 10 UWP apps.
1. Get Windows 10
To develop UWP apps, you need the latest version of Windows.
I am using Visual Studio 2013 Professional on Windows 8.1. I created a custom windows phone virtual machine in Hyper-V. However, when I opened my application in Visual Studio, it doesn't list my virtual machine. I have installed Windows Phone 8.1 Update and Emulators. The custom virtual machine is based off one of those emulators. The predefined Phone emulators are showing up in Visual Studio. However, my custom virtual machine is not showing up. So, how do I modify Visual Studio to detect my windows phone virtual machine and run the application on it ?
Another alternative that I am exploring is to set a specific checkpoint in Hyper-V as the default image for a Windows Phone 8.1 emulator image. The following MSDN link says that we can set a checkpoint as the default image.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn632391.aspx#BKMK_checkpoints
However, I do not see that window anywhere in Hyper-V. Can somebody please let me know if I need to download any additional software ?
Assuming you want to run your app on your phone, before that you need to install Windows Phone 8.1 Update and Emulators from,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43719
The referenced checkpoint window is in the emulator, not in hyper-v itself.
Run the emulator, expand the tools menu (the >> icon at the bottom of the tools bar) and you should find the checkpoint tab there.
I use a Hyper-V VM to run Visual Studio, but this VM cannot see my Windows Phone device connected to the host computer. Both guest and host run Windows 8.1 Enterprise and on "This PC", in the guest machine, I can see a MTP Device representing my Windows Phone, but no content is displayed. On the host, a Windows Phone icon is displayed and I have access to media content. Is there a way to make Visual Studio 2013 on this guest machine connect to the device the same way the host would do?
All I want is to deploy and debug the app I am building from the Hyper-V guest to my physical Windows Phone device.
Hello everyone I have Visual Studio Express Windows Phone 2012 installed on my windows 8. I have a windows 7.5 Nokia device. I would like to know how can I debug to device directly?
If you have the phone connected, and Zune is running (and can see your phone), then you can you the drop down to choose "Device" instead of "Emulator 7.1" (etc.). This will then deploy your debug version of your app to your phone, and run it with the debugger attached, so that you can stop on exceptions/breakpoints/etc. as you would if running on the emulator.
I have installed the dev tools. I have both visual studio 2010 and Visual Studio C# Express. After install it launched VStudio, I create a windows phone app, when running it says "Error 1 Zune software is not installed. Install the latest version of Zune software."
I saw on the internet that I had to connect to emulator in tools menu except I don't have such menu. So is there something I missed ?
It sounds like you're trying to deploy to a device. In Visual Studio, next to the debug button (green arrow), there's a drop down box. Set that to Windows Phone 7 Emulator and then try running the app. This should launch the emulator instead of trying to deploy to an actual device.