Why I can't install Windows Phone 8 update 3 emulators? - windows-phone-8

I tried to install Windows Phone 8 SDK Update 3 emulators and got error which says that I'm not installed Visual Studio 2013, but I installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional also I installed Visual Studio Update 1. Any ideas how to solve that problem? I installed Windows Phone 8 SDK from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=257234&clcid=0x409

If you also have Visual Studio 2012 installed, have you installed VS2012 Update 4?
From the requirements notes: "This update requires either Visual Studio 2012 with Update 4 or later, or Visual Studio 2013."
I have nearly the same setup as you (Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit, VS2012 Pro + Update 4, VS2013 Pro + Update 2 RC) and all WP8 Emulators work fine here (all = WP8, WP8 Update 3, WP8.1).

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Xamarin WinPhone 8 Project unavailable in Visual Studio 2015

I'm working on a Xamarin cross platform project. There is a Android and WinPhone 8 project yet. Everything worked fine. Now I moved to project to another PC. I'm working with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2015 community version.
I installed the Windows Phone SDK 8 and tried to load the project in Visual Studio. The Android project is ok but on the WinPhone project there is written (unavailable) in the project explorer but the files are in the correct directory.
I also tried to install a Windows Phone 8 SDK update but I always get the message "It needs Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 to install this". I also installed Visual Studio 2013 but still get the message.
Did I miss something to install? Already tried to Repair Visual Studio 2015 but it's still the same.
Ok I solved the problem. It's so ridiculous. The SDK and Visual Studio have to be the same language. Otherwise it will not work... well played Microsoft, well played...

Windows Phone 8 SDK installation

I have installed Windows Phone 8 SDK and Windows 8 Embedded Handheld on Windows 8 64Bit Machine, which has Visual Studio 2013 Express installed, I am trying to run Windows 8 Embedded 8 Handheld Sample application Barcode Scanner provided from Microsoft web site.
But problem is:
I am not able to see Windows Phone 8 SDK or Windows Embedded 8
Handheld SDK in about screen of Visual Studio 2013 as given in
this video.
When i open Blend tool which comes with the sdk, and after creating sample application and try to trn it emulator starts loading
and fails with error code 32775.
Also i am not able to see option to create Windows Store App from New Project options.
Also I am not able to open any project with the extension .csproj
So How can i fix these issue?
How to properly install both this SDKs so that i can use them from Visual Studio 2013 Express.
I have all the hardware requirements as given on the Microsoft website, for running the emulator. (Hyper-V and SLAT).
Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows targets Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 only. In the video Andy is using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. VS2013 Express for Windows runs only on Windows 8.1, so I suspect you have a different version of VS2013 Express which doesn't support Windows Store apps.
To target Windows Phone 8 you'll need Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8 or a non express version of Visual Studio 2013.
You should have Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8 installed with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.

Sharepoint Phone SDK installation for Visual Studio 2013 Professional

I am trying to install the SP2013 Phone SDK on my desktop computer (Win 8.1, 64bit) running Visual Studio 2013. VS2013 comes prepackaged with the Windows Phone 8 SDK, but the SP2013 Phone SDK installer fails to recognize it and promptly cancels the installation.
Is the Sharepoint Phone SDK not supposed to run on VS2013?
The requirements for the SP2013 Phone templates (SDK) are VS2012 and Phone SDK version 8.0.
Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163943.aspx

Windows Phone 8 template in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

I am running Windows 8 x64 and have Visual Studio 2012 with the latest update and Visual Studio 2013 preview (latest update) installed. I also have the Windows Phone SDK for Windows Phone 8 development on Visual Studio 2012.
I have read somewhere online that there is no SDK required for Windows Phone 8 on Visual Studio 2013. But Where is the new phone project option?
Found it,
had to modify my vs2013 installation... (stupid me)
Is it an idea to leave this online for the community? (if I forget it again, and cannot find a source online lol!)
For future references, I installed the Visual Studio 2013 Professional edition where the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK apparently wasn't included in the default installation. I browsed to the Windows Phone Dev Center to download the SDK but this way doesn't integrate with Visual Studio 2013 as well - it surprisingly put Visual Studio 2012 Express edition on the PC...
The only way to be able to incorperate the Windows Phone SDK is by modifying the installation of Visual Studio 2013, just as the OP states.
If you are on Windows 7, you won't see the option to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK. It requires Windows 8 or later, 64 bit.

Is it possible to port a Windows RT app to a Windows Phone app?

Just recently released an application to the Windows Store, and I'm wondering if it is possible to "downgrade" it to Windows Phone 7.1 - until Windows Phone 8 will arrive.
The real problem is with the async stuff, I've found the "Async Targeting Pack", but it requires Visual Studio 2012; however VS2012 doesn't work with the Phone SDK 7.0, 7.1.
I'm not in the mood to install old and ugly Visual Studio 2010 on my brand new Windows 8 machine :)
Does anyone know a workaround?
Windows Phone 8 has arrived and, unfortunately, it does not allow you to compile applications for Windows Phone 7.1 if the code uses async/await. You can try to port the code to Windows Phone 8 which does support async/await out of the box.
If you still want to have a WP7.1 port of your application and still use the async/await feature, you have no option other than installing VS2010 express for WP7 + async ctp 3.
Although Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 2012 has arrived, you cannot target WP7 projects since WP7 is Silverlight 4, and targeting pack is for Silverlight 5.
UPDATE: There is a way to compile WP7 applications on Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone by using this nifty NuGet package. However, note that it is currently in prerelease version.
Well Windows Phone 8 suppose to launch tomorrow so why do you need to Downgrade your application to Windows Phone 7.1?
This article might hold's answer to your problem.
Today you may have also seen the online launch event for Visual Studio 2012. The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is built on top of Visual Studio 2012, and will give you the ability to build applications and games that target both Windows Phone 8 as well as Windows Phone 7.5. Windows Phone SDK 7.1 can be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2012 and runs on Windows 8.