Does anyone know the best approach to setting up an automated build of a Windows Phone 7 solution on Windows 2003 server?
The SDK will only install on Win 7 or Vista.
Please see this question regarding setting up the tools on Windows Server 2008.
It refers to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx and while there is no comment on using this technique with 2003 but it'll be with giving it a try.
In order to set up the build process, the Windows Phone 7 SDK would be required. According to the download page, the only supported operating systems are:
Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except
Starter Edition
Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition
Therefore, currently there is no support for Windows Server 2003 and you would have to install Windows Vista at least. This is introduced because of system-specific considerations (e.g. DirectX 10 capabilities).
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I am managing a "legacy" environment,owned by retired developers.
A have many Windows Forms Silverlight applications built with VS 2010,2012,2013 running on windows xp and windows 7.
We are moving to a new hardware/software environment running windows 2012 R2,so
I was asked if these older applications can run on ws2012r2.
My understanding is that these applications should work;what is the best approch to answer this problem?
Thank you
Is it possible to install "Windows Phone 7 developer tools" on "Windows 7 Starter"?
Does the WP7 emulator run after install?
I have a old laptop Sony Vaio which has been upgrade into W7 Ultimate and VS2010 pro, but the graphic card is too old and WP7 emulator won't run.
Can anyone have try to run the WP7 emulator on a Win7 Starter edition?
I'm afraid the tools are not supported on Windows 7 starter edition.
From the download page:
System requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista
•Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions
except Starter Edition.
•Windows® 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions
except Starter Edition.
You might get VS to run, but I think you'll hit problems with the emulator as it runs in a VM, which Windows 7 Starter won't support.
I can't comment on using Windows 7 starter edition, however if the machine you are planning on using is an Intel Atom based netbook I think you may find that you struggle to run Visual Studio and the WP7 Device Emulator simultaneously.
I was certainly unable to the last time I tried on an Atom based machine, even with 3GB of RAM.
I use windows server 2008r2 for development. I want try work with Windows phone 7 SDK. But it available only for Windows7 and Vista.
Is there some trick for development on WinServer?
I did this with the v7.0 version of the tools by following the instructions at Buliding Windows Phone 7 projects on Windows Server 2008
I have tried with the Mango tools though (as don't need to build on Server anymore).
There is no provision to develop WP7 applications on Windows Server 2008 or R2.
There is a workaround to compile WP7 projects on Windows Server 2008, which supports TFS builds, but as far as development on the platform the installer prevents you from doing that. Frustrating, to say the least!
Do windows 7 and windows vista come with preinstalled msxml3.dll or should i use the newer versions? If so will msxml6 work on windows xp and win2k without installing any additional files?
Thanks :)
Yes MSXML3 is shipped with Vista and W7 (along with MSXML6 in so-called side-by-side installation).
You can install MSXML6 on the following Windows versions
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003;
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1;
Windows XP Service Pack 1;
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Source: msdn.
I am using Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise with SP2 and I want to install platform SDK.
But all I find is from here, and it is called Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK. I am confused about SP1. For my platform, should I use this version of platform SDK or some other later version (I think there should be SP2 platform SDK, but I did not find out.)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a55b6b43-e24f-4ea3-a93e-40c0ec4f68e5&displaylang=en
thanks in advance,
George
Microsoft doesn't release an SDK for every service pack of every Windows version. Instead, they release service packs along with a system release whenever the system includes new functionality. So for developing on Windows 2003, the SP1 service pack will be fine. Other options include:
the SDK for Windows 2003 R2
the SDK for Windows Vista
the SDK for Windows 7
the SDK for Windows 2008
See the list of supported operating systems to verify that each of them supports Windows 2003.