How to run Windows Phone 7 emulator as standalone emulator

March 19, 2010 | By Surur

I am sure with all the posts about the Windows Phone 7 emulator many are rearing to try it out for themselves.

Unfortunately you have to install the whole 300 MB development tool set here, and then also run the whole IDE, but RedmondPie has published a solution at least to the last problem.

To learn how to run the whole emulator standalone, read more at RedmondPie here, or if the emulator is installed on your C-Drive simply download the shortcut here.

Remember, to get the unlocked version of the OS you need to download the hacked emulator image, links which can be found here and replace WM70C1.bin at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhone\v7.0\Emulation\Images\.

Let us know the outcome of your experiments below.

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Anyone tried the emulator on XP? It's not supposed to work there and as I'm not at home I can't test it either…

Ben

no, doesnt work on xp for me. ive startet the vm_web.exe and after some time it says:

"Setup has detected that this computer does not meet the requirements to install this software. These requirements must be met before you can install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP – ENU."

Then it links to a local file:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Supported Operating Systems :
•Windows Vista
•Windows 7
This version of Visual Studio can be only installed on the above supported Windows OS

FOXXX

I see this window after lounching on win7 64 bit: "Another Virtual Machine Manager is running. Close the other Virtual Machine Manager, weit for some duration and relaunch the emulator"
lawrence

i cannot see windows phone emulator to select in visual studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. Anyone pl help me to configure, thanks
jeremy

I couldn't get it to work. I'm using Windows 7 x64. When I enter the command prompt to run XDE nothing happens.

Harriet

same…. its really annoying…

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