Reputation: 4741

Will Windows Phone 8 SDK run on Windows 7?

How do you think? Could I use my Sony Vaio for development?

Upvotes: 20

Answers (4)

Reputation: 1887

To use the solution from @Milkman you need to do the following:

Download the full Windows Phone 8 SDK using the /layout command-line switch of the WPexpress_full.exe.
Unzip the provided archive to the target folder replacing already existing files.
Go on...

Confirmed that WP8 projects at least open and build in the VS2012.

Upvotes: 6

Reputation: 101

You can modify the installation files to allow it to be installed on Windows 7.
Here are the modified setup files for WP8 SDK 9900:

Have fun developing on the good old Windows 7.

Upvotes: 10

Reputation: 34128

Don't think there is anything official on that yet. But first messages are that only Windows 8 will be supported.

Upvotes: 3

Reputation: 70150

No, the WP8 SDK will only run on Windows 8. See the following reference:

Upvotes: 8