How to simulate the hardware shutter button in the Emulator?

Question

In addition to soft keys, I'd like to test how my app responds to the hardware shutter buttons (e.g. various states half-pressed, fully-pressed, button-release. etc...).

The emulator does not seem to have a hardware shutter button (unless I am missing something). So, in the absence of an actual device, how can I test this functionality?

Answer 1

The F7-Key is mapped in the emulator to the camera shutter-key fully pressed and the F6-Key is mapped to the half-pressed shutter-key.

Both shortcuts are not supported in Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone (but I have no idea why they did this limitation...)

Answer 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff754352%28v=vs.105%29.aspx gives a list of supported emulator hot-keys. :)