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mheavers
mheavers

Reputation: 30158

testing a website in windows phone 7 simulator

I'm trying to test a mobile website I'm building using Windows Phone 7, but I can't figure out how to do it. It seems that the SDK wants me to build an application first in order to use the emulator, but I'm not building an app, I simply want to test compatibility of my mobile site with windows phones. How do I do this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3666

Answers (2)

Lukasz Madon
Lukasz Madon

Reputation: 14994

You should be able to run emulator without building an app try C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Tools\XDE Launcher\XdeLauncher.exe

If now start visual studio and make an app f.e. Silverlight for Windows 7. Emulator will be loaded with debbuger attached. If you stop the app in VS, emulator should be still there. It has preinstalled IE which you can use to test.

Mind that it's better to test your web app on a real device.

Upvotes: 1

Paul Annetts
Paul Annetts

Reputation: 9604

If you install the free Windows Phone SDK you can run an emulator in standalone mode (i.e. without Visual Studio running).

Search for "Windows Phone Emulator" from the Start menu and just launch that directly.

Once in the emulator about the only thing you can do is launch IE Mobile.

(To enter URLs and other text using your real computer keyboard instead of the onscreen keyboard tap your "Pause/Break" to toggle keyboard mode)

Upvotes: 4

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