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

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Dec 9 13:14:34 CST 2011


There are emulators for all platforms - android, iphone, blackberry and windows phone. Very handy when you want to experiment with a platform that you do not own or is new to you.

- Hans

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On 2011-12-09, at 8:18 AM, "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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