What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

jhealy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:51:07 GMT

@Tron - 7.8 doesn't use hyperv. I haven't worked much with the tools on server 2012 so I can't help there. I would take the query to stackoverflow's windows phone group. windowsphone.stackexchange.com

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

Tron 42 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:24:35 GMT

Interesting topic Joe. I have installed the SDK 7.8 on Windows 2008 Server R2. The old emulator is running fine after all Hyper-V machines have been stopped. However the new emulator for 7.8 is just reporting that there is another instance of the emulator running with different credentials. After that the emulator is unresponsive and needs to be closed. Of course all machines have been stopped and in the Hyper-V manager I can see that no new machine for 7.8 has been created. I assume that this is caused by stricter security settings in the Server OS. Is there something I can adjust to overcome this issue? I know that the Server OS is not supported but this only seems to be a small problem with the configuration.

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

jhealy — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:51:00 GMT

Great article on saving the emulator state - sviluppomobile.blogspot.it/.../saving-windows-phone-8-emulator-state.html . Enjoy...

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

jose — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:08:20 GMT

out of curiosity .. does Win8 development and its emulator also use a similar hyper-v approach for emulating different devices and specs? just curious cause I like the WP8 approach and would love the Win8 team to use it too if they arnt already!

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

jhealy — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:54:36 GMT

@imperial... I'm sure there's a few. Good news is OS7.1 aka Windows Phone 7.5 apps will run on WP8. I personally advocate folks targeting first 7.5 to get the biggest distribution, then 8.0 for the light up features. You can still produce great stuff for Windows Phone 8 using the VS2010 and the OS7.1.1 tools.

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

Imperial Dynamics — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:48:02 GMT

my laptop is too old (core 2 duo) to run the wp8 emulator. So i have to stick to wp7 app development. I wonder how many developers are in the same situation

re: What the Hyper-V? WP8 SDK Emulator and Hyper-V Insights

Robert McLaws — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:28:31 GMT

Thanks for this Joe! So, what about when the OS the WP8 SDK is running on is itself a guest in a Hyper-V environment? How do I install the SDK on the Hyper-V host so that I can still debug my apps? Is there a way to be able to redirect the network calls to a different IP?