I have to develop a mobile application for windows mobile and NOT windows phone.
I am trying to initialize the development environment in Windows 7 OS 32/64 bit.
I searched the web for environment initialization.
Please let me know the environment initialization procedure for Windows mobile application develoopment in Windows 7 32/64 bit from scratch.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I dont understand the question.
I had to do nothing special as I installed Visual Studio 2008 and then the Windows Mobile 6 SDK.
I assume, you already connected the WM device to your Win7 station. So you should have WMDC already installed. Otherwise install Windows Mobile Device Center from the MS site.
Secondly install VS2008 (not express version, it does not support WM development).
Then download and install Windows Mobile 6 (professionell) SDK and install.
That is all, nothing special. I did it without any hassle on my Win7/64 PC. Should be the same for Win7/32.
If you need further assistance be more specific in your description.
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.
I would like to follow the guide (http://microsoftedge.github.io/WebAppsDocs/en-US/win10/CreateHWA.htm) to develop a Windows 10 app, but it says it needs the Windows 10 Insider Preview as the requirements. However, I cannot download it right now as it states that:
We’re very close to the public release of Windows 10 so we’re not onboarding any new PCs to the Windows Insider Program just now.
Can I now have any ways to develop a Windows 10 App? I want to finish making it so that it can be out once Windows 10 is released. Thank you!
You can develop Windows 10 apps with Windows 8.1,too. You need Visual Studio 2015 to and the latest Windows SDK. In the future you will be able to develop from Windows 7, too. (Both has been announced at the build conference in San Francisco.)
There will be some limitations - you can't deploy your Win10 app to your local system, as you are running W8.1 locally. (But you could use a remote or virtual machine).
There will also be some limitations around the XAML designer.
The easiest way is probably to start developing on a remote machine in the cloud. Here's a guide how to set things up: https://github.com/DanielMeixner/DevDreamMachine
As we are getting closer to release of VS2015 and W10, please check out this post, too. There are some limitations around app development between release of VS2015 and release of Windows which might affect you.
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/06/29/release-dates-and-compatibility-visual-studio-2015-and-windows-10-sdk/
Background
I have developed a desktop application which runs on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and potentially newer OS, but for now I'd like to release it for Windows 7. It is not available for Windows Phone nor is it available in a store. It's a good old standalone program, no cloud, nothing special.
At the moment I have some trouble, because the tool says
The Windows App Certification Kit did not detect any new applications as a result of your installation.
Testing cannot continue unless an application is successfully installed.
Please confirm that your installer worked correctly and run the Windows App Certification Kit again.
I'm working on that and I hope this will finally not be related to the question.
My Research
From the statement
The Windows App Certification Kit now supports the following app types: Desktop apps for Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7
on Windows App Certification Kit, my impression is that Windows 7 is supported.
However, on Using the Windows App Certification Kit, Windows 7 is only mentioned in a weird scenario of testing a Windows 10 app on Windows 7.
The website Certification requirements for Windows desktop apps talks about "Windows 8.1 Desktop App Certification" and refers to Windows 7 only for the name change:
[...] in order to participate in the Windows 8.1 Desktop App Certification Program. For Windows 7, this program was known as the Windows Software Logo Program.
The Question
Can a Windows 7 desktop application still get certified?
related:
What do I need to do to submit my desktop app to the Windows Store?
The main advantage to get a desktop application certified is that it can appear on Windows store.
Windows 7 cannot access Windows store, therefore it's pointless as far as Windows 7 users are concerned.
Windows 8 can access the app store, but it doesn't really work for desktop apps. User must exit desktop-mode and enter tablet-mode, go to Windows store, find the desktop app. But the desktop app will only appear as a link to developer's website. User must go back to desktop mode, go to the link and finally install...
Windows 10 allows users to install desktop apps directly. However there is not enough information yet.
As to your question, there is really no such thing as Windows 7 application. Maybe you made your application on Windows 7, but it probably runs on Vista, Windows 8, and 10. You just have to test it. It can get certified for Windows 10, but I don't think it will be the same way as Windows 8.
Problems with certification kit: Make sure the your application is completely uninstall from your computer, including app installation folders and app registry keys. Run the test again and make sure the program was installed.
By building my android aplication on phonegap for windows 8 i got a .xap file. Now am not having windows 8 pc or windows 8 phone. I want to test my xap file, so what can i do now? Is that possible to run the xap file on windows 7 if so how ? I tried by installing windows software development kit but i couldnt find any emulator. Is there any other way to run the application on windows 7 desktop ?
No, there's no emulator for Windows 8 on Windows 7.
Your best bet would be virtual machine. Two most popular options are VirtualBox and VMware. You can run virtual PC and install Windows 8 on it (you'd need a Windows 8 installation though).
Microsoft released new virtual images with different Operating Systems and Browsers on modern.ie. On the right side of the page you'll find different virtualization options as well as download links to different images. You can download and use these images without having to worry about buying any license, getting the system installed, etc. (they're time limited, but you can just reset your virtual machine at will).
I installed Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone 8 SDK successfully. I created a new phone app and trying to run but it doesn't show me any emulators in Visual Studio 2012.
Make sure that your PC satisfies the system requirements for running the emulator:
Windows 8 Pro edition or greater
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.
Source
Pretty much #Olivier's answer. Also, make sure you have Hyper-V enabled on your computer.
In lieu of this, There's a very nice tool on codeplex that pretty much checks if your computer is able to start hyper-v and the windows phone emulator.
If that passes, you'll want to follow this article in order to get hyper-v set up. Specifically the two enabling sections.
There was a post a little while back on what is required specifically here on stack overflow. It can be found here