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.
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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 :)
i have windows 7(OS), visual studio 2010, windows sdk 7.1, my phone is Nokia Lumia 525
could you please tell me whether my apps run in my device or not?. and also is it possible to install windows sdk 8 and visual studio 2012 for windows phone in windows 7(OS), if it is possible, tell me stepwise and also send download link about windows sdk 8 and visual studio 2012 for windows phone
Thank you
No to both questions.
It is not possible to run Windows apps on Windows Phone. This is regardless of the versions of either.
If it not possible to install the SDK for "Windows Phone 8.0" on a Windows 7 machine. (system requiements)
However, according to the system requirements you can install the 8.1 SDK on Windows 7
Note also though that Windows 7 is out of support in a few months (on 13/01/2015) so you should probably consider upgrading. Especially as the 8.1 SDK lets you build "universal" apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1
Is there any work around so developers who does not have Windows 8 can develop for windows phone using Windows Phone SDK 8.0?
Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to develop for Windows Phone 8 on Windows 7. In the system requirements of Windows Phone 8 SDK it states you need to have Windows 8 to develop Windows Phone 8 apps.
Directly from MSDN:
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 requires 64-bit Windows 8 Pro or higher. You can't develop Windows Phone 8 apps on Windows 7, on Windows Server 2008, or on Windows Server 2012. The Windows Phone 8 Emulator has special hardware, software, and configuration requirements. For more info, see System requirements for Windows Phone Emulator.
This is mainly because of the Hyper-V emulator that is in windows 8. Be sure if you buy Windows 8 you get the Pro (64bits) version because the normal version has no Hyper-V in it also your BIOS has to support virtualization to run the emulator in Hyper-V.
I have been working on Windows Phone 7 app development, now I want to built metro style apps.
I have a set of doubts about the environment setup :-
1) Do we need Windows 8 OS for developing metro style apps?
2) Can we develop metro style apps in windows 7 OS?
3) What is Windows 8 Release Preview (Windows SDK) ? What happens if I install that, can I do it in windows 7 OS?
4) What tools are required for metro style app development?
What do I need to download ?
Thanks in Advance.
Yes, you need Windows 8 OS for the development of Windows 8 Metro apps
No, you cannot develop Metro apps in Windows 7
Windows 8 Release preview is the latest beta release of the Windows 8 OS. It's the pre-release version of Windows8 OS.
Windows 8 RP (Release Preview) is an OS, so you cannot install in Windows 7 unless you have a Virtual Box for doing so.
I suggest you to install Windows 8 RP in a separate partition, so that you will have an option of dual booting with Windows 7 and Windows 8. (But you will be able to use one OS at a time and you need to reboot to switch between the OS's)
You can download Windows 8 from this link.
And then for Metro application development, you need Visual Studio 2012 RC
1) Yes, it's mandatory to use Windows 8 to develop Windows Store Apps.
2) No you can't develop Windows Store Apps using Windows 7. But you can always harness the power of Visual Studio 2012 in other possible ways.
3) Release Preview was eventually one of the test builds of Windows. Now the RTM is out so use RTM ONLY. YOU can always upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
4) You need Windows 8 RTM Installed + Visual Studio 2012 installed to work on Windows Store Apps.
Hope that might help you.
You need windows 8 OS for metro style development using windows RT and Visual studio 2012.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/155521/what-is-the-difference-between-windows-8-winrt-and-windows-rt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8_editions
Try to install windows 8 os in a separate drive and install the VS 2012 because the preview version may slow down and crashes your system. Win Rt and a tool for WINDOWS phone 8 will going to release by microsoft this month end. So now you can practice metro style development on VS 2012 in Windows 8 OS.
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.