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Just recently released an application to the Windows Store, and I’m wondering if it is possible to “downgrade” it to Windows Phone 7.1 – until Windows Phone 8 will arrive.
The real problem is with the async stuff, I’ve found the “Async Targeting Pack”, but it requires Visual Studio 2012; however VS2012 doesn’t work with the Phone SDK 7.0, 7.1.
I’m not in the mood to install old and ugly Visual Studio 2010 on my brand new Windows 8 machine 🙂
Does anyone know a workaround?
Windows Phone 8 has arrived and, unfortunately, it does not allow you to compile applications for Windows Phone 7.1 if the code uses async/await. You can try to port the code to Windows Phone 8 which does support async/await out of the box.
If you still want to have a WP7.1 port of your application and still use the async/await feature, you have no option other than installing VS2010 express for WP7 + async ctp 3.
Although Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 2012 has arrived, you cannot target WP7 projects since WP7 is Silverlight 4, and targeting pack is for Silverlight 5.
UPDATE: There is a way to compile WP7 applications on Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone by using this nifty NuGet package. However, note that it is currently in prerelease version.