Can anybody provide me the link or blog-post for kernel level and core features differences between windows phone 7 and windows phone 8?
From a developers point of view? :Nokia has a guide for side by side development highlighting the differences
You can see difference between Windows phone 7 and Windows phone 8 here.
Don't forget you've acces to the update system information here with new features by updates...
But all windows phone devices have not already the last version of the system.
Also, a new "Big Update" named "GDR2" ( it's the windows phone 8.1 version) is actually in progress for the windows phone 8... lot of websites list all new features for this update. here for sample.
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I have a full fledged app built for windows 8.1...
Through my research, I discovered that the api changes between 8.1 and 10 is nt that much and an app built for 8.1 will work on 10..
So my question now is will a windows 10 app work on windows 8.1?
If yes, how can I go about it?
I've created a report on changes for WinAPI 8 vs WinAPI 10 that may help you to discover differences in details. It's available on this page. The report is generated with the help of the ABI-CC tool.
Since apps built for WP8.1 don't work on WP8, then I doubt that Windows 10 Mobile apps will work on WP8.1. As far as I'm aware, there are more differences between those two systems' API than between 8.1 and 8.0
Btw, are you asking about the desktop systems or the mobile ones (as the tag you used suggests)?
I'm creating apps for windows phone pretty much since the beginning and I was wondering..
Will the Windows Phone apps run on Windows 10 (for Phone) ?
I could not find an answer anywhere and I wonder if the Windows Phone store will just disappear with the new version of Windows.
As Erno said: We don't know yet. But there have been a few clues indeed. I got a newsletter a week ago where Microsoft issued a new challenge on DVLUP that suggests making apps ready for Windows Phone 10 means at least porting them to Windows Phone 8.1:
https://www.dvlup.com/Challenge/c37655f6-1d31-4a67-aa20-dea314a7a03b
Also you can find this statement:
We’re more committed than ever to making sure that you can leverage your work to reach more customers, regardless of where they are, what device type they’re on, or what operating system they’re running. The best way to start preparing for Windows 10 is to start building universal Windows apps today for Windows 8.1.
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/01/22/windows-10-is-empowering-developers-to-dream-again-3/
So with all this in mind Windows 10 seems to drop Silverlight for Windows Runtime (at least they are heavily promoting migrating apps there).
After upgrading my 830 to Windows 10 preview, it seems like even Windows phone 7 apps still work under Windows 10 for phone.
I still wonder how are they going to handle the different stores though.
Anyway, I got my answer.
Wait and see !
Am sure that a Windows Phone 8.1 silver light app would continue to run on Windows 10 Mobile you don't even need to upgrade to Windows 10 OS running Visual Studio 2015 to manage your app on Windows 10 Mobile you can continue to develop with the existing development environment(Windows 8.1 and VS 2013). For the query related to the store please follow the link Get ready for the Unified Dev Center dashboard preview and upcoming Store changes
I have to use JSON-RPC for my Windows phone 8.1 app. I have been google-ing for hours and haven't found anything related to JSON-RPC AND Windows phone 8.1 (or even 8). I have found multiple JSON examples and also JSON-RPC libraries for windows phone 7, but nothing for windows phone 8.1.
Can anyone give me a push in the right direction? It doesn't have to work for Windows Modern and Windows Phone apps both, however it would be prefered.
In the end I used http://jsonrpc2.codeplex.com/
I had to make slight changes to the code, because some of the things weren't working, since it was made for windows phone 7 and not Windows Universal 8.1. However now it works great, without too much work.
You can find the windows phone 7 code here:
http://jsonrpc2.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#AustinHarris.JsonRpc/AustinHarris.JsonRpc.Client.WP7/
Edit: corrected spelling mistakes
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
i know that microsoft removed support for C/C++ for windows phone 7, and that only C# is allowed to develope applications for windows phone 7.
but i know of a compiler (Pelles C) which supports windows mobile 6.5 and smart phones, i asked on their forum month ago but got no reply.
does anyone know if it supports Windows Phone 7? or any other compiler that supports native development for windows phone 7? doesnt have to be from microsoft.
ps: i dont have windows phone 7 phone, i have 6.5, just wanna know if i coded some applications for my phone, will i be able to port it to windows phone 7 or not
thanks.
No, Windows Phone 7 only supports managed applications, unless you can get the app bundled with the phone via a carrier or manufacturer.