Windows Phone 8 SDK installation

Question

I have installed Windows Phone 8 SDK and Windows 8 Embedded Handheld on Windows 8 64Bit Machine, which has Visual Studio 2013 Express installed, I am trying to run Windows 8 Embedded 8 Handheld Sample application Barcode Scanner provided from Microsoft web site.

But problem is:

• I am not able to see Windows Phone 8 SDK or Windows Embedded 8 Handheld SDK in about screen of Visual Studio 2013 as given in this video.

• When i open Blend tool which comes with the sdk, and after creating sample application and try to trn it emulator starts loading and fails with error code 32775.

• Also i am not able to see option to create Windows Store App from New Project options.

• Also I am not able to open any project with the extension .csproj

So How can i fix these issue? How to properly install both this SDKs so that i can use them from Visual Studio 2013 Express. I have all the hardware requirements as given on the Microsoft website, for running the emulator. (Hyper-V and SLAT).

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows targets Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 only. In the video Andy is using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. VS2013 Express for Windows runs only on Windows 8.1, so I suspect you have a different version of VS2013 Express which doesn't support Windows Store apps.

To target Windows Phone 8 you'll need Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8 or a non express version of Visual Studio 2013.

You should have Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8 installed with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.