I got a Windows 7 32-bit machine, can I do MS Windows Phone 8 dev on the machine but let it deploy directly to the device and not use the Windows Phone 8 Emulator that does require Windows 8 with a 64-bit machine?
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When you want to download the Windows Phone 8 SDK here, you've the System Requirements.
That indicates :
Supported Operating System
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
If you want to develop a project for Windows Phone 8, you need a Windows 8 OS in 64 bits.
Also, the SDK windows phone 8 install the Windows Phone 8 deployer... for deploy on the Windows phone 8 device...
Windows Phone 7 use Zune, not Windows Phone 8.
You can try to install the SDK in a Windows 7, but when you execute this, a message indicate your OS is not compatible appear... even if I had a Lumia 920, I bought my Windows 8 just for that... ( the deployement)
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I don't know is it possible or not to use a windows store app on to to work on windows 7 machine ?
There is a game app that needs to be transferred in to windows 7 from a windows 8.1 machine
There's no way to install Windows Runtime on Windows 7.
Windows Runtime is available only starting from Windows 8.
I would like to know if it is possible to install the windows phone 8 sdk one a workstation that has windows 7 OS?
Unfortunately, it looks like a no.
See Requirements here : WP8 SDK
•Supported Operating System
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.
On a side note, you can always run it on a VM that is Windows 8 :D
I am new to wp development while installing. windows mobile sdk i am getting an error "This computer does not support windows phone emulator which requires the 64 bit edition of windows 8.1 pro and a computer that supports Hiper-V" as shown in the below screen shot....
I am using windows 8.1 pro 64 bit operating system and dual core second generation processor and 4 gb ram.
For Windows phone emulator installation should requires SLAT support for the machine
See the requirements for WP 8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff626524(v=vs.105).aspx
Check whether your system has SLAT support using the below software
http://slatstatuscheck.codeplex.com/
If your machine is SLAT enabled make sure the Hyper-V settings in "Windows Features" as below:
It works only on the processor that has HYPER-V(Virtualization). All the intel i-series supports virtualization.
I'd like to test web sites in Mobile IE. I do not need or want Windows 8 loaded, just Windows Phone 8.
I understand I can run Windows Phone 8 Simulator inside a Windows 8 VM. That is not my question.
I understand Windows Phone 8 Simulator is an x86 build of Windows Phone 8. This should, theoretically, make it easier to launch on an x86 Mac within an x86 based virtualization environment.
Can I run Windows Phone 8 on Mac, directly?
Yes, the Windows Phone 8 Simulator / Windows Phone 8 Emulator can run directly in OS X. However the mouse cursor is not visible. Mouse works, but no cursor/circle to show where your pointer is, which makes the VM difficult to use. Windows Phone 8 Simulator does the same thing on Windows when launched in Hyper V Manager (rather than Visual Studio). This may change in future.
Keyboard support is fine.
I used VMware Fusion 6.01 / OS X Mavericks.
Get the Flash.vhd file from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Emulation\Images\Flash.vhd inside Windows 8, and copy it to OS X (I used VMware Fusions Sharing feature to set this up quickly)
Import the VM into VMware Fusion
Change the CPU and Memory setting to a minimum of 2 cores, 512 MB (Windows Phone 8's mimum requirement). Before I did this, Windows Phone 8 would pause at the boot screen.
Windows Phone 8 will launch.
Keyboard shortcuts are listed at MSDN. Remember to press Fn on your Mac for function keys.
As you don't want to run Windows 8, the response is no, you can't run the emulator directly from Mac OSX. Also the emulator is x64 so you need to have a Windows 8 Pro at least, with HyperV enabled and a CPU SLAT capable.
If you consider the unique option: run Windows 8, you need to verify your processor is SLAT compatible. you can made this going to this page. and searching for your CPU model, in the Advanced technologies section you need to look for Intel VTx and EPT support. If both are supported, you should be able to run windows phone 8 from a Windows 8 machine.
I am looking for a Windows 6 CE emulator, which I can use on my X86 32bit Win 7 Laptop. I just want to run a particular Win CE 7 software I have got on this Laptop.
I found a few emulators, but all fail. Some are not Win 7 compatible, others just do not start. Who can tell me an Win 7 emulator working on Win 7?
I made a windows xp VM and ran the emulator on that. Bit laggy, but it works.
I am using the version 3.0 of the Device Emulator allowing me to run the emulator independently from VS2005.
Also this question contains some more details, for me the VirtualPC image described there did not work with Win7.