In feb 2013 the windows azure toolkit for windows phone 7 apps has been suspended as per the link
Are there any cloud services that i can use instead of this azure on windows phone 7 apps ?
It was not suspended, but superseded. What this means is that now you can use Windows Azure Mobile Services since it is specifically designed to work with application for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store.
As you would with the "big house" Azure, you can use AMS through a SDK:
Windows Phone 8/Windows Store
Windows Phone 7.5
(pre-release)
Or you could access it through the standard REST layer.
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Am I able to build a Windows 10 IoT Core Application in Visual Studio 2015 on my Windows 8 machine?
The following page made me think that I have to have a Windows 10 machine to build Windows 10 IoT Core apps. Didn't know if anyone has used Windows 8 or not...
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Docs/GetStarted/noobs/GetStartedStep1.htm
Windows 10 IoT core support two types of app. UWP app and non-UWP app.
UWP are primary app type of Windows 10 IoT core. It is a common app
platform across all version of Windows 10, including Windows 10 IoT
Core.
Both of them need Windows 10.
So, the answer is no. Because some new features introduced in Windows 10 are not supported in Windows 8. For further clarifications, reference the following links:
Windows 8 apps vs UWP.
Universal Apps on Windows 8/8.1.
I wanted to use the new Mobile service available on Azure for my Windows Phone 7 project. But cannot figure out what to include in the project in order to make this work. The "new Windows Phone 8 app" option works fine, however I would like to get this service into a Windows Phone 7 app.
Although the Mobile Services team has not released an official WP7 SDK, you can find an unofficial one here: https://github.com/zaxy78/azure-mobile-wp7-sdk.
You can also access the REST API directly, reference is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj710108.aspx
Hope that helps.
"Azure Mobile Services" is just a set of Azure services packaged for mobile platforms. Right now Windows Phone 7 is not supported, considering it is a deprecated platform (for Windows Phone 8 and not backwards compatible) I would not expect it to be supported.
However, since "Azure Mobile Services" is just a "packaged set of services" you can absolutely use Azure services in a Windows Phone 7 app it is just not "packaged in one spot" for you.
You could use the Windows Phone Toolkit (open source) for Windows Phone 7 phones...
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Windows-Phone-Push-Notifications-and-Windows-Azure
However, most things in Azure expose RESTful APIs..so you could call the REST APIs for the specific Azure service. For example:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/prathul/archive/2012/08/10/windows-phone-amp-azure-service-bus-rest-authentication-and-messaging.aspx
The latest pre-release version of the Windows Azure Mobile Services client (0.3.3-rc) on NuGet now supports both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.1 apps, along with Windows Store apps.
Background:
My firm has a new client who has asked us to build a Windows Phone 7.1 app. Our team wants to leverage Amazon's EC2 instances to set up our CI servers to avoid the need to have to requisition and acquire hardware for the project. We will need a Windows build agent to build the Windows Phone app.
Problem:
Setting up the Windows build agent is proving difficult. To build the Windows Phone app, we need the WP 7.1 SDK installed, however it is not supported on Windows Server and officially requires Windows Vista or Windows 7. With a workaround by Aaron Stebner I can get the SDK installed, but the Windows Phone emulator doesn't work. We can compile and run unit tests, but functional tests are not possible without the emulator.
Is it possible to enable to Windows Phone emulator to work on Windows
Server 2008 or 2008 R2?
Is it possible to create a Windows Vista or
Windows 7 instance on EC2?
You can't create Windows vista or Windows 7 on EC2. One solution will be to use Virtualbox inside an Ubuntu instance but I don't think it will work because EC2 already use an hypervisor ...
Maybe you can find an other cloud provider or buy a VPS.
Is there guidance out there? Samples? Is this possible?
Everything I am finding is 2010 before WP7 was even released! (including this question: Windows Live Id Authentication for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live ID Single-Sign-On on Windows Phone 7 and Getting the currently logged-in Windows Live Id (Windows Phone 7) and Messenger connect desktop API for Windows Phone 7)
Anything new?
yes you can, by using the windows azure access control service:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg192968
I'm new in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 app development. I need to create a web service to connect my phone with db in another place. How can I make it can you advice me with example and can I you digital certificate in Silverlight?
Andy Pennell wrote a walkthough on how to use WCF with Windows Phone.