I am new to windows phone technology ,so I am trying to access windows phone 7 or 8 remotely from desktop. I have searched on many sites , but there are many solutions regarding remote desktop that means remotely handle desktop from mobile phones but I have not found any solutions in reverse manner i.e Windows Phone from desktop ,also there is many solutions are available for android phones but not even single solution for windows phone.So,is there any API or any other way for remotely handle windows phone.Any kind of help would greatly appreciated.
Thank u.
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So the windows phone 7 emulator was a simply another process , the windows phone 8 emulators are actually Hyper V machines , would like to know what were the advantages of making this shift , from a user perspective debugging has now become a pain for me because I need a security exception from my domain admin and fiddler does not work easily either ? Does this design change have multiple benefits which is why it was made ?
Windows Phone 7 uses virtualPC to run emulators. VirtualPC has been unsupported by Microsoft for some years now, but works perfectly to run WindowsCE images. Windows Phone 8 uses a more powerful and resources consuming kernel: WindowsNT and HyperV is the new virtualization platform from Microsoft so the logic path is to update emulators to use HyperV technology. HyperV allows to address better graphics capabilities than VirtualPC and play's better with multiple networks, also the performance is much better than VirtualPC...
hope this helps you resolve your question.
I use Mac OSX. I now want to try and develop an app on windows 8 for the Imagine Cup.
But i dont want to switch back to windows.
Is there any way to develop apps for windows 8 from mac?
Preferably free option....
The only available way is to use Virtual Machine because one cannot develop Windows 8 Modern UI app(Windows Store app) even with lower version of windows than windows 8. There are many virtual machines are available for free. Virtualbox maybe a good start.
www.techspot.com/guides/503-windows-8-virtual-machine ,A Tutorial to create vm of windows 8.
Assuming that windows phone is the platform you chose to develop app, again you need windows to create windows phone app.
Kick start your windows phone app development here .
I actually use VMWare on a Mac to do all of my Win32 development on Windows 7 and VS2010.
You will need:
a powerful mac (i7)
lots of RAM (I have 8G, I wish I had 16G)
a 7200rpm HDD or SSD.
With that, it's really great for me. I've been doing this for a few months now without a single kernel panic or blue screen at all.
Note: You cannot really develop for WP7 using this sort of configuration. The WP7 simulator uses VirtualBox, which either runs extremely slowly or not at all in other VMs, based on our experience. Will need a real Windows machine for that ^_^
It's a workable scenario. Good luck!
I want to develop app for windows phone but I got a big problem, my laptop can't run the emulator, after checking the requirements I know that my vga driver doesn't support it. My question is, are there any alternative for windows phone emulator instead of the officially one from Microsoft? Or any other way to tweak it to be run on my laptop? Thanks
From my understanding there isn't any other windows phone emulators. If you can get a hold of a windows phone 7 it would be possible to test on that. You can try to contact a Microsoft windows phone evangelist in your area, the one in my area helped me get a phone to test on.
I am not sure about tweakinging your laptop to get the emulator to work. Is your vga driver up to date? If not maybe try to update it. I know it takes quite a bit of computer power to run the emulator smoothly.
If you wanted you can try to register for a virtual lab, here you remote into a windows machine and are able to build and test on the remote machine, but it is time limted and is usually for a class to learn about it. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032485600&%3bculture=en-US
I am fairly new at windows 7 graphics creation. My understanding is that all Windows phone 7 and Windows tablet graphics should be created at 96 ppi, not 72 like iPhone and android. Is this correct?
The sample graphics from windows and also another icon pack seem to support this idea as does this article (even though it's older):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/expression/archive/2007/10/31/trick-or-treat-resolution-96-ppi.aspx
Before moving forward, I just want to make sure I don't have any wrong ideas about Windows phone/tablet graphics.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
Sticking to 96dpi shouldn't give you any problems on Windows or Windows Phone 7.
While not a wrong idea about graphics you do potentially have a wrong idea about Windows Phone (7) being comparable to a tablet:
Widnows Phone 7.0 (& 7.1) OS(es) are not and will never be tablet operating systems. All existing Windows based devices which are advertised as "tablets" either run a version of Windows (XP, Vista or 7) or are based on Windows CE.
If you try and create images which you can use across all of them without modification you are likely to run into issues.
Does any know some good http (at least) sniffer which works under Windows Phone 7 OS?
Currently I use wireshark/fiddler + windows phone 7 emulator for testing, but anyway I want to test my app using real phone + some win 7 phone sniffer too.
I'll appreciate any help.
You can use Fiddler with your device also.
Mike Ormond demonstrates here.
More Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone
The current Windows Phone platform SDK does not expose access to the network stack or the radio interface at all, so in the current incarnation there is no way to create a sniffer for the platform.