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Windows Phone development in Visual Studio 2012 RC

Today Microsoft released Windows 8 Release Preview and visual studio 2012 rc. I'm a Windows phone developer. What dev tool I have to use for create my apps in Windows 8 rp?

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G10 Avatar asked Jun 01 '12 10:06

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In Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 express download page, it is mentioned like

"A Visual Studio 2012 Express product for Windows Phone will be available in conjunction with the next Windows Phone release. Until then, you can continue to use Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone to create Windows Phone apps."

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/products/express

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Bimal Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 20:09

Bimal


The Windows Phone 8 SDK is out now, for those that are still reading this. It includes the 7.1 and 7.1.1 as well, and all runs within Visual Studio 2012. You can get it here:

https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk

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Logan Alan Nowak Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 21:09

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