I'm just confused, I just began Windows Phone programming and I was asking myself :
can I use a Windows phone 7 (HTC HD7) as device in Visual Studio 2013 and SDK for Windows Phone 8?
(sorry, maybe my question is stupid !)
Thanks in advance !
Jon B is correct. If you want to develop Windows Phone apps and use your Windows Phone 7.x device, you need to go back to Visual Studio 2012 and install the Windows Phone 8 SDK, which allows development for both WP7.1 and 8.0.
To recap:
Visual Studio 2013 + WP8 SDK (installer option): Build WP8.0 apps only
Visual Studio 2012 + WP8 SDK (separate installer): Build WP7.1 & WP8.0 apps
Visual Studio 2010 + WP7.1 SDK (separate installer): Build WP7.1 apps
Another important consideration is Windows. The version of Windows required is dictated by the WP SDK. The WP7.1 SDK requires Windows 7 & up. The WP8 SDK requires Windows 8 Pro & up.
I hope this helps.
No. Windows Phone 7 applications will run on a Windows Phone 8. Window Phone 8 applications will not run on Windows Phone 7.
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I am aware that there are several changes between Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 with regards to mobile development.
Before I upgrade to Windows 10, I'd like to make sure that I can still develop Windows Phone 8.1 from a Windows 10 PC with VS2013 (Update 5).
Can anyone advise if I will have problems developing 8.1 phone apps with Windows 10?
TIA
You can still develop Windows Phone 8.1 apps (both Runtime or Silverlight) on Windows 10 with either Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015 (I'd recommend upgrading to the latter).
Here's a quick snip of Windows Phone 8.1 projects in VS2015 on Windows 10:
I want to develop windows phone 8 app using Phonegap. I have used phonegap for Android and iOS and it works fine. As per my research, I have found some prerequisites to develop WP8 apps using phonegap are:
Node.js
Windows phone SDK
IE10
A 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro
Windows Phone SDK
Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate
I have windows 7 installed on my system. My question is: Can I develop WP8 apps using phonegap in Windows 7. I have not found any material regarding this.
Thanks.
When developing locally (ex: using Visual Studio, the Cordova CLI, Ionic CLI, or PhoneGap CLI local builds), these are the requirements per MSDN re: Windows Phone 8.0 SDK:
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 requires 64-bit Windows 8 Pro or higher. You
can't develop Windows Phone 8 apps on Windows 7, on Windows Server
2008, or on Windows Server 2012. The Windows Phone 8 Emulator has
special hardware, software, and configuration requirements. For more
info, see System requirements for the emulator for Windows Phone 8.
What installations I require for Windows Phone 8.1/8 SDK?
I have been through How to get started with windows phone SDK 8.1?
, but no luck.
Its ok if anyone wants to down vote. But please help me get through the installation. :)
You need Visual Studio 2013 update 2 or later. You can download the latest free version here:
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update 3
To run it you need at least Windows 8.1.
If you want to use the emulators, you need Windows 8.1 Pro x64, but if you have a physical Windows phone 8.1 device, you can use it to test your apps, instead of the emulators
First of all for windows phone 8/8.1 you would be needed to have windows 8.1 (x64)Operating System, Then you should check for whether your System is Supporting Hyper-v and SLAT or not.
To check for Hyper-V and SLAT, You can have Refrence from here Does my processor support Hyper-V : Coreinfo
If you have Hyper-V and SLAT, you are ready with Devlopment for windows phone 8/8.1.
for Development of windows phone 8/8.1 You would be needed to install Visual Studio 2013 with update 2 or later. here is a download link for Express 2013 for Windows that can be used for windows, windows phone as well as for Universal Apps.
for windows phone 8.1 emulators, you can download them from here windows phone 8.1 emulators
I recently updated my Visual Studio 2013 such now it allows to develop Windows Phone 8.1 applications.
But now, when I create a Windows Phone project, it is systematically for WP 8.1 and I can't change the target.
The only way I found in order to develop WP 8.0 apps it's to create Silverlight Windows Phone project.
Whence my question : What's the concrete difference between Windows Phone project and Silverlight Windows Phone projet in Visual Studio 2013 ?
Thanks for any answer
The Windows Phone project uses the Windows Runtime APIs. A lot of the Windows Runtime API introduced in Windows Phone 8 project is common to both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, making it easier to write once and share code between your apps on both platforms.
As expected the Windows Phone Silverlight project uses the Silverlight based APIs.
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.