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Reputation: 1754

Is it possible to develop Windows Phone 8 applications using the WP8 SDK on Windows 7

Is there any work around so developers who does not have Windows 8 can develop for windows phone using Windows Phone SDK 8.0?

Upvotes: 2

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Answers (1)

Jordy van Eijk
Jordy van Eijk

Reputation: 2766

Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to develop for Windows Phone 8 on Windows 7. In the system requirements of Windows Phone 8 SDK it states you need to have Windows 8 to develop Windows Phone 8 apps.

Directly from MSDN:

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 Windows Phone Emulator.

This is mainly because of the Hyper-V emulator that is in windows 8. Be sure if you buy Windows 8 you get the Pro (64bits) version because the normal version has no Hyper-V in it also your BIOS has to support virtualization to run the emulator in Hyper-V.

Upvotes: 5

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