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Windows Phone 7 Development on Windows XP

I downloaded the Windows Phone 7 SDK yesterday, but when I installed it on my Windows XP, it complains that it needs to be installed on Windows 7. My question is, can I install the Windows Phone 7 SDK or develop Windows Phone 7 on WinXP? Is there any workaround that was made to overcome this?

Thank you for your help.

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A workaround to the installation constraint has been explored in several posts on the msdn wp7 answer forum. There was no definitive confirmation of how to circumvent this or the reasons confirming why the restriction exists (although the xna requirement was noted in the associated thread).

One such post you can check is here .

I would like to be able to get around this myself, even if the possibilities were limited, so I can do some testing on several computers, some of which still run xp.

Edit: There is an update on this thread that is worth a try.

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System requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows vista
    • Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) ENU Service Pack 2 (SP2) - All editions except Starter Edition
    • Windows 7 (x86 and x64) ENU - all editions except the Starter Edition
  • Installation requires 3 GB of free disk space.
  • RAM 2 GB
  • DirectX 10 graphics card with WDDM 1.1 driver

No, I do not see XP on this list. Obviously, it is checked by the installer, you just can not install it.

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I opened the topic on the MSDN forums asking the exact same thing: Windows Phone 7 CTP Windows XP workaround?

In short, even if you choose the option to install the Windows Phone 7 CTP tools in Windows XP, you won’t be able to launch Phone Emulator. It just crashes at runtime.

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Or you can download something called VM Virtualbox, which allows you to start any type of virtual machine. After that, you can create a new virtual machine (virtual machine) and make the OS win 7 and install it there!

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Well find the baseline.dat file in the folder with setup.exe . open baseline.dat using notepad.

go to the section - [gencomp7788], under this change from 1 to 0 for the following entries:

 InstallOnLHS InstallOnWinXP

save the file and run the setup again.

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