I'd like to copy some images to the windows phone 8 emulator, but can't seem to find a way to do this.
I was hoping when the emulator was running I would be able to access certain directorys via windows as per a real device.
Any ideas, I can't help thinking I'm missing something.
Cheers
I recently detailed how to do that in that blog post:
How to add images on the Windows Phone emulator
Check power tools.You can copy images with this tool.
http://wptools.codeplex.com/
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I found this link (Project My Screen).
However, I really want to control a Windows Phone from another Windows 8 or Windows 10 device.
Can I do this?
If not then how can I?
There are no APIs that allow for this. WinRT doesn't have them, and it would require very low-level access to make this happen.
This may seem an odd question , but I'm just wondering if the process of finalising a WP8 app is different to a WP7 app.
In WP7 when I am ready to publish an app I just go into the Debug/Bin folder upload the XAP top Dev Center. However, when I do this with WP8 apps they never serve ads. Also the XAP is always called something like AppName_AnyCPU_Debug.xap compared to just AppName.xap in WP7 apps (using VS2010).
I know with Windows 8 you do something different, but is it the same in WP8?
Help is appreciated.
Yes, its same in Windows phone 8.
But dont forget to check the project for store requirements.
Here is the link for more info on Store test kit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh394032%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
I am not sure about windows phone 7 but in windows phone 8 *_AnyCPU_Debug.xap means that xap is targeted for any CPU architecture(x86 or ARM) currently all windows phone CPU are ARM based. and secondly _Debug means that the xap is build as debug and that is not a good idea to publish the as the xap will contain unnecessary debug symbols and effect app performance. alwasy use build mode release when every you are publishing your app.
In WP8 I had to get the list of songs from "MusicLibrary" class and play it through the "MediaPlayer" class. It was simple enough. But both of these are gone in 8.1. Actually pretty much everything is gone. Even simple things like page navigation syntax has changed completely (and I don't see any logical reason behind doing that)
Can someone tell me how I can get the list of songs in the user's phone in WP8.1? And how to play them in the background? I can't find any documentation on 8.1 on the net at the moment. After a lot of googling I only managed to find one example which showed how to play a file from isolated storage. Please help..
I think you are targeting windows phone 8.1 (Windows Run time version) If you target windows phone 8.1 Silverlight almost everything is same as windows phone 8. Windows phone 8.1 winRt is targeted for code re-usability on window phone and windows store app. So if you are targeting both platforms then try to Use Universal Apps.
Edit
For Player use <MediaElement... and for accessing Music library use below code.
var folder = Windows.Storage.KnownFolders.MusicLibrary;
var files = await folder.GetFilesAsync();
Hope this helps.
I have to create windows phone 7 or 8. I installed visual studio 2013. It came with windows phone SDK.
I have problem. I have Windows 8.1 pro OS. But my processor does not support Hyper-V platform. I did enable BIOS settings. Even though i did not get this.
Any alternative way to test or debug app in emulator.
Any idea or suggestion should help me a lot.
Thanks in advance.
make sure you have enable hyper V from control panel also.
The best alternative would be to test your app on an actual device (this does not require Hyper-V). For more information have a look at this discussion.
Not the most convenient way, but simple and it's working:
You need to register account at developer.nokia.com and follow this link http://developer.nokia.com/resources/remote-device-access. You'll find list of devices that you can use for testing your apps. Just choose one of them and reserve it and use it as you want!
This video may help you to start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-GbgPnTSxI&sns=tw
It is somehow possible to observe foreground applications in Windows Phone 8?
Observe the name of the opened app and maybe time of opening and closing.
Thanks a lot in advance.
There's no API in the WP8 SDK that would return that information. If that's a feature you'd like to see in future releases go to the wpdev uservoice, explain you usecase and get developers to vote on it.