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I'm using Visual Studio 2022's Android Emulator on Windows 10 to try MAUI. The virtual device was started with factory default.
I have installed VS 2015 Professional installed in my system and want to install VS Emulator for Android as I need it for Xamarin Android development but the setup doesn't seem to have an option for it(below screenshots). Can someone suggest how I can go about with this?
The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is installed with Visual Studio 2015 when you select Visual C++ for Cross Platform Development features.
If you update your VS 2015 to Update 3, you can also see the option Microsoft Visual Studio Emulator for Android:
The emulator can be launched from within Visual Studio 2015 from
Apache Cordova projects
C++ Native Activity (Android) projects
Xamarin Android projects
For Android development, you also need to install the Android SDK. And it is also suggested to create your own emulator with google service, for the emulator installed with VS, Hyper-V should be enabled, and for self-created emulator with Google service, Hyper-V should be disabled. Please refer to Windows Installation and Visual Studio Android Emulator to configure your environment for Xamarin Android development.
I have a Xamarin project developed in iOS MAC. I want to continue the development of the same project on Xamarin Studio but on Windows. Is this possible?
Yes you can, keep in mind that when you're downloading Xamarin at windows it always force you to download a visual studio with Xamarin being a plugin (now they're introducing visual studio for Mac too!). if you're insisting to use Xamarin studio on windows go on to your account on Xamarin rather than using the default download button, and see all the version that can be downloaded. Xamarin studio for windows should still be there
You can open an Android project in Xamarin Studio on OSX or Windows. An iOS app will not open in Xamarin Studio on Windows; it has to be opened in Visual Studio. On Windows, Visual Studio should be used over Xamarin Studio.
I am starting to develop Windows Mobile 6 apps using Windows Mobile SDK. I do not have Visual Studio 2008. Is there a way or work around to program using windows mobile SDK in Visual Studio 2010?
There is no support or work around for developing for Windows Mobile 6.x or 5.x in Visual Studio 2010 (w or wo SP1)
I make a window mobile application using ms visual studio 2005 professional.
Could I run this application in emulator without installing Visual
Studio?
If I run this in visual studio 2008 or 2010, is there any
difference?
You can download the Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 -- Standalone Release here. In fact, it is the same emulator that MS starts from within Visual Studio and attaches a debugger to the emulator, so there should not be any different behavior.