Could someone please advise if it is possible to develop for the Windows phone 8 on Windows 7 OS using the device not the Emulator.
I will be doing C++ development for that platform.
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Could someone please advise if it is possible to develop for the Windows phone 8 on Windows 7 OS using the device not the Emulator.
I will be doing C++ development for that platform.
You can not install the required SDK on Windows 7. You need Windows 8 to install VS2012 with phone-support. If you do not need the emulator, run Win8 inside a VM. It runs pretty smooth. I set this up for me and it works very well. Even the deployment to a WP8-device and debugging.
But you will most probably not be able to run the WP8-emulator as it is a Hyper-V-machine that needs Intel VT and Win8 Pro to be present. I was not able to setup a virtual machine to pass these features to the hosted Win8-instance, yet. But if you are just fine with your device give it a shot. I run it in VMWare player. But virtual box should work, too.