Can I develop Windows 8 Apps using VS 2012 on Windows7 platform, I have gone through the website, but they have mentioned that Windows 8 is mandatory?
With certain exceptions, the Visual Studio 2012 Windows Store app authoring experience is restricted to Windows 8.
You may be able to get the command line tools working on Windows 7, but the IDE requires Windows 8.
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I have windows 7 and visual studio 2012 and want to start developing windows phone apps. Do I need an SDK? If yes, What version of the SDK is required?
On Windows 7, you need to use VS 2010 (full or express version) to develop for WP7 .
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/wpapps/en-us/0e40579d-12a5-4aba-81cb-ab83e5956fc2/windows-7-visual-studio-2012-windows-phone-development?forum=wpdevelop
You need Windows 8 (or 8.1) to develop Windows Phone 8 applications, for which you can use the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
You cannot use Windows 7 to develop native Windows Phone 8 apps. You can, if I recall, use the older Windows Phone 7 SDK with Visual Studio 2010 in Windows 7 but you're really limiting yourself with Windows Phone 7.
Am using Visual Studio 2010 and developed a application and debugged it in a windows phone 7.5, after registering with [windows phone developer Registration] app.
Now i got a new windows phone 8, i could not register because i read that, the windows phone 8 will not be supported by zune. Without zune [windows phone developer Registration] will not detect your phone.
Some people says i need to use Visual studio 2012 for windows phone 8, then the problem i have i am using only windows 7 desktop operating system. Visual studio 2012 needs windows 8 desktop operating system.
Please suggest me can i run my app in windows phone 8 with visual studio 2010.
If the only way is to develop in Visual studio 2012 then will my application support for windows phone 7.
Please help me with your suggestions and answers.
That is how it is, you need VS2012 for WP8, which itself needs Windows 8. You can always download an evaluation version of both and use them, eventually inside a virtual machine. Pretty much the same story than for developing Windows 8 applications.
Regarding compatibility between phone versions, Microsoft recompiles WP7 apps so they can run on WP8 but I'm unaware this happening the other way around.
WP8 doesn't need Zune and it's not available anyway on Windows 8.
I myself had to switch to Windows 8 for this very reason...
My apologies if this is a duplicate, but I've not been able to find an answer to this.
My laptop was just upgraded to Windows 8, but my desktop is running Windows 7. I have several Windows Phone 7 apps in various stages of development. When the laptop ran Windows 7 I was able to open WP7 solutions on either machine without problem.
I know the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK has compatibility issues with Windows 8, and that the Windows Phone 8 SDK also supports Windows Phone 7.5, but will I still be able to open solutions on both machines, or will Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8 save a newer solution format that Visual Studio 2010 won't be able to open? Or can I install the 7.1.1 SDK update on Windows 8 and still develop in VS 2010? (I understand I also need to install Games for Windows Live first.)
The Windows Phone 8 SDK supports both WP8 & WP7.1[/5].
You can open the same solution files with both VS2010 & VS2012.
If, for some reason you cannot open the same solution file it's easy to make versions for each version of VS. (Just take a copy and upgrade one of them.) Unless you're changing the projects within each solution this shouldn't be an issue.
I have the Professional edition of VS 2012 installed on Windows 7. When I go to start new projects, there are really no new types over VS 2010. When I tried to follow along with creating a WRL component as at:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/jj155856.aspx
I get a HRESULT exception upon attempting to install the template.
Simple question: Does this even work on Windows 7?
Getting started with Windows Store apps:
"Windows Store app development is supported only on Windows 8. You can't develop Windows Store apps on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2012."
So no, it will not work on Windows 7.
You cannot develop Windows Store Apps on Windows 7 you need Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012. There is a free version of Visual Studio Called Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8. It lets you make Windows Store Apps. If you Install Visual Studio on Windows 7 it blocks the development of Windows Store Apps. So what I am trying to tell you is you need Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 to Develop Windows Store Apps.
You can download Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 for free:
http://microsoft.com/express
You can also get a Windows 8 Trial for 90 days for free:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
Is it possible to develop Windows 8 apps using Windows 7?
According to the page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.aspx#Requirements
Windows 7 is supported, by the SDK. I downloaded it.
Now I want to download visual studio (free, that's express, right?), but found only this:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#vs
According to this:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/products/compatibility
It should run on Windows 7. The only free download I found is Express "for Windows 8" -
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#express-win8
And yeah, it runs only on Windows 8.
What do I have to download to develop for Windows 8 on Windows 7?
Thanks in advance.
The Windows 8 SDK by itself is not an IDE like Visual Studio. Nor does it come with a compiler. So yes, you can install it on Windows 7, but you won't be able to do much with it unless you are willing to do a lot of work. You won't have any templates or things like that. The simplest way to build Windows Store apps (formerly referred to as Metro style) is to use Visual Studio and/or Blend running on a Windows 8 machine - running directly on a machine (recommended) or in a virual environment.
You are confused between Visual Studio for Windows 8 and Windows 8 SDK. Windows 8 SDK does not require Visual Studio for Windows 8.
See its System Requirements.
Here's a link to VS2010 C# Express
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-csharp-express
Download and install that
Download and install .net 4.5 (mentioned in the requirements you linked in your question)
Download and install Win8 SDK
From there hopefully in VS2010 C# Express you'll be able to target .NET 4.5 and include references to the Win8 SDK stuff in your project
You cannot develop Windows 8 (as in WinRT apps) apps on Windows 7. You need to install Windows 8 whether it's natively or virtually.
There are very few resources out there that are up to date. Check you this from Microsoft Dev Center