Build a development environment for Windows Phone 8

1. the WP8 development tool is called Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (x64). Currently, only the English environment is supported. It can be seen from the name that only the x64 architecture development environment is supported, therefore, this development tool also needs to run on Windows 8 of x64.

2. Windows 8 (x64)-DVD Installation

In this process, the WP8 SDK requires that the Win8 of HyperV be enabled, which means that it must be Pro or Enterprise. In the Win8 installation disk, the version of the installation depends on the serial number, at the beginning, this step wasted a lot of time.

In addition, HyperV requires the CPU to support virtualization. The poor one is that the E5300 displays support virtualization. However, after the WP8SDK is installed, it still prompts that hardware virtualization is not supported, as shown below:

The installation package size is about 3.5 GB. After installation, go to the desktop, open the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (x64) installation package, and install the package as prompted. The progress is shown as follows:

3. The installation is successful as follows:

4. Create a C #-based Windows Phone 8 Application and select a template as follows:

5. Do not make any changes. F5 is compiled and run once, And the simulator is successfully opened, as shown below: