I'm using Browsershots, BrowserStack and Sauce Labs to test websites in different browsers. But none of these provides Windows Phone emulator. Is there any online (both free or paid) website, which provides the Windows Phone emulator for testing websites?
And if not: is there any other Windows Phone emulator for Windows than the Visual Studio native emulator?
I googled a lot, but there was nothing. Totally nothing, just only the Microsoft's Windows Phone SDK for Visual Studio, which includes the emulator. But it works only for Windows 8 and I have WIndows 7 on my PC.
If you want to use just the browser, you can use the latest IE, open it up and press F12,
then click on the bottom icon and you will see a screen like this one :
That's pretty much the only other way to emulate WP 8 IE.
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How do you make a Windows Phone 8.0 application with Visual Studio 2013?
Windows Phone 8.0 Project Template in VS2013.4
I've followed the above but when I hit next it automatically makes a 8.1 project. It prompted me once on if I wanted 8.0 or 8.1, but that prompt no longer appears.
EDIT: Creating a Blank App (Windows Phone) only creates an 8.1 app. Creating a Blank App (Windows Phone Silverlight) gives an option of 8.0 and 8.1.
What's going on?
I haven't tried this but I think you need to install the sdk for Windows 8 separately. You can side by side install multiple OS versions in your Visual Studio to have a look that how your app would respond in windows 8 environment.
You then also need the respective emulator image too.
After some googling i have found a link, I personally haven't tried this ever but I hope this would be useful.
Windows Phone SDK archives
This link contains the SDK for Windows 8 and 7.5 along with their respective emulator images.
How do you copy/paste text from the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator to your development PC (desktop)?
I saw that this is possible (although elaborate) on the Android Emulator.
I would assume there should be a way to access the emulator's clipboard through VS.
Did you try starting the Emulator without Debugging?
Reference: copy-and-paste in the emulator for Windows Phone 8
Ok so I got windows 8.1 nextbook to test on. I created some basic browser app in visual studio running on virtual windows server 2012 r2. My main machine is windows 7. When I connect with USB cable nothing happens (who could have predicted that). I thought I could deploy my app on tablet and do a debug like that but haven't find a way to do it. Anybody here with experience in this scenario, I googled everywhere and the only thing I found is that documentation sucks
You cannot run a Windows Phone app on Windows. You need a Windows Phone or a Windows Phone emulator to run the Windows Phone app. To run on Windows you need to write a Windows Store app. Windows 8.1 on a tablet is the same as Windows 8.1 on a desktop or laptop computer.
In your case you'll probably need a physical Windows Phone since you are already running virtualized. The Windows Phone emulator is a Hyper-V image and is not supported nested in a Hyper-V guest OS.
If you write a Windows Universal app then the code will be mostly the same for the Windows and Windows Phone targets (the UI layer is usually different), so you can write and test the bulk of the app as a Windows Store app to run on your tablet and then recompile for Windows Phone.
I am installing windows phone power tools.
I am getting emulators like emulator Windows Phone7.5, like that.
But i need a windows emulator like Emulator WXGA.
Please help me for this.
I would suggest that you un-install the SDKs, and then get the SDK for WP8 from the official site.
It has the WP7.5 support there as well, thus should work for both development purposes. Also do remember to check the Windows Phone Emulator for Windows Phone 8, do note the requirements for SLAT, DEP & that you need to have Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise 64 bit Operating System for the Hyper V to be present in there as well.
I have Windows 7 system. I need a free downloadable Windows Mobile emulator for testing my mobile webpages. I have downloaded and tried to use Cellular Emulator, which is asking for Visual Studio. Can you recommend a user-friendly Windows Mobile (version 7) emulator which does not require Visual Studio? If so, please provide the link. Thank you.
Here you can test everything on several Lumia Devices:
Remote Device Access for Nokia Lumia
Some devices you can access:
Microsoft themselves provide the best emulator (which I used extensively). It is much better than any open third-party emulator.
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53424
Note: you need to use a Windows 8 machine.