Here is a simple how-to guide on running Windows Phone 7 Series emulator without having to run the entire Visual Studio 2010 IDE. If you have installed the development tools (including Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows phone), you’ll notice that the .exe file for emulator (xde.exe) is automatically installed in C:\Program Files\Microsoft XDE\1.0\ location. Simply double clicking on Xde.exe file wont start the emulator as it requires some command line parameters.
Step 1: Make sure you have downloaded and installed the entire development tools set for Windows Phone 7 Series.
Step 2: Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft XDE\1.0. Hold right shift key and then click on right mouse button. Now click on “open command windows here” as can be seen from the screenshot below.
Step 3: Type this in command prompt and hit enter:
xde.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhone\v7.0\Emulation\Images\WM70C1.bin
NOTE: Change the directory “C:\” to the directory where you have installed Microsoft SDKs and Microsoft XDE for Windows Phone 7.
Voila! You should now be able to run the entire Windows Phone 7 Series emulation experience without having the pain of starting Visual Studio 2010. If these steps are too advanced for you, simply download this “WP7S Emulator” shortcut that i created, place it on your desktop and run it whenever you want to. Cheers!
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Thought the Window Phone 7 operating system seemed cool? Liked the way the new Metro UI looked? Well, now you can get your hands on the WP7 OS for free, and play around with it all you want directly on your PC, more than six months before it releases into the market. Microsoft has provided the WP7 SDK and a phone emulator free on its site, to allow developers to design products that will be ready before the launch of the first devices.
Here’s how you can enjoy the look and feel of the OS on your PC, courtesy John Herrman of Gizmodo. What you require is very simple:
- A Windows PC (XP, 7, Vista) with no specific requirements.
- The free Windows Phone Development Kit (available as download [here])
- A custom Windows Phone 7 ROM (available as a download [here] or torrent [here])
Know that the SDK is a stripped down version that has almost everything hidden, and you require the custom Windows Phone 7 ROM to be able to use the default apps.
Installation, First Run, and Unlocking:
1) Download the Windows Phone 7 Development kit, and allow the automated installer to run without changing any of the options. It will install XNA Game Studio, Silverlight, .NET Framework, Visual Basic, and more. You may be required to restart you computer after the installation.
Windows Phone 7 Development Kit installation
2) Once you have restarted, open Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express – the primary developer tool for designing Windows Phone 7 applications, and click on ‘New Project’ “either in the top left of the main window or from the File menu”.
3) Select one of the App templates at random, and click OK.
4) Once it has loaded into Visual Studio, press the F5 key to run the emulator. The first startup of the emulator might take a while, but soon enough, you will have a Windows Phone 7 prototype phone alive and kicking on your desktop. This is the limited version though, and to unlock/unhide the applications, you will need to follow the below steps.
Emulator running, with default applications still locked
5) The custom Windows Phone 7 ROM you downloaded will be either in a RAR or BIN file. If in RAR, uncompress it (it will contain the BIN file).
6) Copy the BIN file, and paste it into “[YourHardDrive]:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/WindowsPhone/v7.0/Emulation/Images”
7) After ensuring the emulator is not running in Visual Studio, rename the extension of the BIN file (WM70C1.bin) that was already present in the folder, to anything else. [John Herrman recommends you rename it to ‘.old’, just for the sake of future reference.
Rename the new BIN file to WM70C1.bin.
9) Now press the F5 key in Visual Studio again to run the emulator, and you will have all the default applications to play around with.
Emulator running with the default applications unlocked
Go ahead, play around with it, and let us know what you think of the Windows Phone 7 OS in the comments below…
Windows Phone 7 is the successor of the Windows Mobile platform and has been launched in Europe and Asia on October 21, 2010. For the USA, it will be launched on November 8, 2010.
Windows Phone 7 becomes popular because of its new interface design. Some people says, it can compete with other more popular mobile OS such as iPhone and Android because it integrates the operating system with other services, and plans to strictly control the hardware it runs on. You can run Xbox Live directly from the device, Zune HD music + video player, Microsoft Office and more. Overall, Microsoft is very dependent on these devices to compete with the iPhone and Android.
For those who want to create Windows Phone 7 applications, Microsoft already released the Windows Phone Developer Tools that contains Windows Phone 7 emulator. Using this tool you can start building and developing WP7 applications emulates in your PC.
You can download, install and try the tool for free for 30 days trial version. Start to build your first WP7 applications using this tool. To download the software, go to http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started. Click the ‘Install now’ link and run the setup. It is an online installation so you need to have internet connection to continue the installation.
Accept the License Agreement to continue the setup.
Select a destination folder to install the software. By default it will be installed in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\ and it needs 3.1 GB disk space. Click ‘Install’ to continue the installation.
The softwares will be downloaded first and then install it. It takes a time depending on your internet connection speed and hardware so be patient.
After the installation completed the software is ready to run. Click ‘Run the Product Now’ to run the software.
The software has been installed successfully. Now you can start developing Windows Phone 7 Applications.
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https://github.com/8212369/WPR
Сам пока не тестировал, но решил поделиться.
Может кто в курсе, какие были достойные эксклюзивы?
Binaries for: Windows, Android
Tested and supported games:
Earthworm Jim (no achievements yet, add them to json)
Skulls of the Shogun
Ilomilo
Zuma’s revenge
Plant vs zombie
The Sims 3
The Sims Medival
Civilization Revolution
I love Katamari
Fruit Ninja (crash after play done one match)
Sonic 4 ep 1
Tower Bloxx
Kinectimals
MonstaFish
Bug Village
Brain Challenge
Ragdoll Run (bugged)
Max and the Magic Marker
Tentacles
Tiki Towers
Need for Speed Undercover
More Brain Excercise by Namco
Only Vulkan is supported officially on Android. I don’t resolve OpenGL graphics distortion for now.
Game achievements assets like description or names are scrapped from TrueAchievements. Mapped it to emulator need to modify two jsons in Database folder.
lupus, до сих пор смартфон на этой ос.с играми там не просто как на андроиде скачал и играй.Те что скачивал из стора есть и на ндроид причем на андроид они лучше выглядят .На кпк под виндоус мобайл были хорошие игры и наверно эксклюзивные даже .
Конечно мы не станем рассказывать, как установить OS WP7 на ваши телефоны, но есть один веб-сайт, который позволяет прямо в веб-браузере протестировать HTML5 приложение, эмулирующее работу ОС от Microsoft, к слову, очень неплохой в жизни.
Всё, что вам нужно сделать — это отправить ваш браузер по адресу aka.ms/wpdemo. А ещё нужно усвоить, что управление в этой ОС осуществляется обычным тапом и вертикальными и горизонтальными росчерками.
В «эмуляторе» очень точно показана работа и поведение настоящей ОС, так что вы получите достаточно точное впечатление о ней без покупки нового телефона.
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HTML5-эмулятор Windows Phone 7