[dba-VB] Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is here...

Hi Arthur

You can fake it - actually are expected to do so during development - using the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (from the free SDK) which on-screen mimics most things. It requires 800 MB of ram and DirectX 10 graphics minimum.

/gustav


>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 09-12-2011 17:06 >>>
Being unable to afford a Win7 phone, is that an impediment to development,
or can I fake it using the IDE?

Arthur

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Shamil
>
> Yes, I've even signed up at the App Hub:
>
> http://create.msdn.com/en-US/home/about/developer_registration_walkthrough 
>
> as we received a one-year subscription in favour of the registration fee
> (only ~USD18.00).
>
> Also, I learned that more attention should be payed to Microsoft
> Expression Blend. This is an amazing design environment capable of all
> sorts of web-centric graphics, including animations, and with a amazing
> Windows Phone graphics designer and emulator featuring drag-n-drop design
> of many things with automatic sync to and from a code window as well. You
> have to work with it to believe it. Requires DirectX 10 minimum.
>
> It contains some additional tools/controls too, and I did see special
> controls like the one for the alarm selector, but I can't remember the name
> of the dlls.
>
> /gustav