Which Windows Mobile emulator is the best? - html

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.

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Alternatives for Windows Phone 8 development

I researched a little, and I found nothing, unless the Windows Phone SDK, that couldn't install on Windows 7 operating system...
There is another way, another SDK, another language, to create Windows Phone 8 applications? For instance, can I use QT for this purpose?
Thanks in advance.
No, Windows 8 or 8.1 are required. QT generates a Visual Studio project which needs to be built with Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1
If you don't want to upgrade your main system to Windows 8 you can run it in a VM, although there will be issues running the emulator so you may need a physical phone to test (depending on your computer you may need that anyway: modern computers almost all support Hyper-V, but older Windows 7 era computers are more likely not to).
You can use javascript and html5 through cordova phonegap or winjs from Microsoft.

Using WP8 Emulator without Windows 8 Pro or Actual Device

Is there any way to do this by running a WP8 emulator in a virtual machine? I would really like to publish WP8 apps but I need to do some testing and don't want to pay to upgrade to the pro version of windows. Thanks for any help you can give.
Currently there is no solution for this. You have to have a emulator or a device to test the app and testing on a device is mandatory now. There used to be Nokia Remote Device Access but it is deprecated now. http://developer.nokia.com/resources/remote-device-access
Short answer is no.
Windows Phone emulator needs hardware virtualization features (enabled in BIOS) and only the pro version is capable of using them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8_editions search for hyper-v).
You can find some reference here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff626524%28v=vs.105%29.aspx

Windows Phone Power Tools not showing proper emulator?

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.

Is there any Windows Phone website emulator/screenshotter?

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.

How upload XAP file with Windows Phone Power Tools on tablet?

I would need to upload a XAP file done for Windows 8 Phone to a Windows 8.1 Tablet.
I know that Windows Phone Power Tools do it but since this tool was done for Windows 8 Phone and not for Tablet, for it. Could I upload this XAP into my Tablet with it? Is it possible?
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
Alejandro
Windows Phone 8 apps are not compatible or in other words do not work in Windows 8. Though you can share some code using PCL (Portable Class Libraries), the development environment and architecture is different for both.
So the answer for your question is, it is not possible to deploy or run your Windows Phone apps on a Windows 8 tablet.