I have VS 2010 Professional installed on 64bit Windows 7. I installed the Windows Phone 7 developer tools, this ran fine without any hassle: I can start the emulator. However, when I try to create a project, I can't see the templates for phone development. I searched the installed templates, but they appear to be not installed. Any comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
If installed correctly, they will be under:
Installed Templates > Visual C# > Silverlight for Windows Phone (for Silverlight templates)
or
Installed Templates > Visual C# > XNA Game Studio 4.0
If you can see the options in the menu, but not the templates, check the version of the .NET Framework which is selected - from the dropdown at the top of the dialog.
You could also check they are installed by looking at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Silverlight for Windows Phone\1033
If they're not there, try repairing the install or reinstalling.
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Is it possibility to create windows universal app for windows 10 in Visual Studio 2013? Should I install some kind of SDK, and after that everything will be ok or I have to use VS2015?
VS2013 won't work, you have to use VS2015.
You can run VS2015 on Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 to create Windows 10 apps.
Make sure to install the components for Windows Universal App Development during the installation of VS 2015. VS 2015 can be installed side by side with VS 2013.
More info can be found on MSDN
No need to have 2015. Not everyone is having this.
If you are using a different development environment than Visual Studio 2015, you can download a standalone Windows SDK for Windows 10 installer. Note that you don’t need to install this SDK if you’re using Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 – it's already included.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads
Below is the link for SDK
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=822845
Ramprasad.
My visual studio 2013 ultimate doesn't have "Windows Driver" template in New Projects.
I mean that I want to have something like following picture:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh439665%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
How can i add this template to my visual studio? What packages should I install?
Thanks
After installing Windows WDK 8.1 I found that I had the missing templates I was looking for (drivers templates). So you'll need VS 2013, as well as WDK 8.1.
And ... ditto.
Installed VS 2013 pro, then installed the WDK 8 and/or 8.1 - no templates.
Control Panel, Change-> Repair -- no templates.
Reinstalled. Ditto.
Lots of Internet complaints, suggesting a "registration" problem with the install. Only positive outcome from those posts was 1 dude who reinstalled his whole OS just to get the VS and WDK working with a kmdf template option.
I have been developing WP (Windows Phone) 8.0 apps using Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone. To start developing for WP 8.1, I downloaded VS 2013 including update 2 RC from Windows Phone Developer site which is supposed to use to develop WP 8.1 apps.
I've tried twice, but there is no option to create WP 8.1 app even after a successful installation. What I get is only this:
i.e. no option to create Windows Phone 8.1 apps. If it matters, I'm interested in WP 8.1 Visual C# template specifically.
As I've mentioned, since I develop Windows Phone 8.0 apps, therefore Visual Studio Express (2012) for Windows Phone is already installed.
I've already gone through:
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
Why is there no Windows Phone version of Visual Studio Express 2013?
Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone
How to get started with windows phone SDK 8.1?
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
but none address the solution.
Being a windows app developer even I was baffled with the shift in Windows Phone location. You can find it in
Visual C# --> Store Apps --> Windows Phone apps.
Do sign in, in Visual Studio through Microsoft Account then go to ur notification and update ur VS and you will get this screen. Its usually caused due to some updates working only when VS can access developer's account and also I am using VS 2013 pro.
Have you installed Windows phone emulator SDK with the updated emulators?
I finally got the solution.
I downloaded both Visual Studio 2013, and update 2 RC using the /layout switch at command prompt. From MSDN:
After you download the update executable from the MSDN website to a
location on your file system, run the following command at a command
prompt: /layout.
This command downloads all the
packages for the installation. By using the /layout switch, you can
download all the installation packages, not just the ones that apply
to the download machine. This approach gives you all the files that
you need to run this update anywhere and may be useful if you want to
install components that weren't installed originally.
To do this, download the Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC files (about 2-3 MBs each). Then, create a shortcut of these files on desktop, and then open properties of shortcut. In target field after ", add a space followed with /layout as shown below:
This will download all installation files to your disk and when you install the VS (the exe at specified download folder), it won't ask it to fetch from internet, rather will do it from offline files and phone SDK 8.1 will be installed too.
Please be warned that, this will take a lot of time. To save time, I suggest following what is in Update section.
Update
While searching on internet, I found these two links on Microsoft website:
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
Desktop
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update
2
In download section, these two sites show that, the offline download option is now available (as evident from the ISOs shown). Though, I don't know if that would help as I haven't tested this option. Just that this option will be much more quicker than using /layout switch.
I have installed the SDK for Windows Phone 8 however I can't create a Windows Phone project in Visual Studio 2012
I have an idea on why it's not working, my Visual Studio is in French and Windows Phone SDK is in English
Is there any quick fix without re-downloading either the sdk or vs 2012 in the same language?
I finished downloading the Visual Studio English Language Pack and using VS2012 in English instead of copying around the templates from one language to another.
No, you have to install both Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone SDK in the same language. Otherwise the templates won't appear.
I've been developing for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC for a number of years without any issues. I recently started getting "Unable to start debugging" error messages after I installed Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. The Visual Studio 2008 Remote tools would work, and Visual Studio could deploy the files, but "Start with Debugging" would not work while "Start without Debugging" would work.
I uninstalled the Windows Phone 7 SDK and am able to debug Windows Mobile applications again. Is there any way to allow the Windows Mobile 6.x and Windows Phone 7 SDKs to coexist on one computer?
With these Errors Double Check and make sure Service Pack one is installed for 2010.
Trevor, this issue has been reported as a bug with a known workaround by Jeffrey Walton on Microsoft Connect. The fix is summarized as follows:
Rename the directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\SmartDevices\Debugger\target\wce400\armv4i to armv4i_temp
Copy the directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SmartDevices\Debugger\target\wce400\armv4i inside the Visual Studio 2010 path.
Reference: VS 2010 Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools breaks existing VS 2008 Windows Mobile Developer Tools
Visual Studio 2010 can not build (much less debug) a Windows Mobile application. It can develop for Windows Phone 7 (apparently - I certainly do not develop for it).
To develop (build/debug) for Windows Mobile, drop back to Visual Studio 2008. That's the last version of Visual Studio that offered support for Windows Mobile.
Unfortunate.
Right edm2.exe and other remote debugger Arm4i files versions must be deployed to device. Rename temporarily all folders containing edm3.exe and try VS2008 debug. If works, search edm*.exe in registry and repair related keys to VS2008only state.