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I downloaded the Windows Phone 7 SDK yesterday but when I installed it on my Windows XP it complaint that it needs to be installed on Windows 7. My question is, is it possible to install the Windows Phone 7 SDK or develop for Windows Phone 7 on WinXP? Is there any workaround that has been made to overcome this?
Thank you for your help.
A workaround to the install constraint has been explored in a few posts over at msdn wp7 answers forum. There has been no definitive confirmation of ways around this or reasons confirmed why the restriction exists (though an xna requirement has been noted in the linked thread).
One such post you can check out is here.
I’d like to be able to workaround this myself even if the capability was limited just so I can do some testing across multiple pc’s some of which still run xp.
Edit: There is an update on this thread which might be worth trying.