I have seen there is support for windows phone 7 app on windows phone 8. I have developed some apps on windows phone 7 and I want to run it on windows phone 8 emulator to test my app. Is there any way for doing this?
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I have seen there is support for windows phone 7 app on windows phone 8. I have developed some apps on windows phone 7 and I want to run it on windows phone 8 emulator to test my app. Is there any way for doing this?
Yes, just open your Windows Phone 7 Solution in Visual Studio 2012 with Windows Phone 8 SDK installed, select as target Windows Phone 8 emulator and run your app. You can even choose between various screen resolutions.
The minimal system requirements for running Windows Phone 8 emulator are here:
What does it take to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator?