Windows 7 doesn’t provide the hooks that makes the design-time environment for Phone work. When you design on Phone, you’re actually designing on top of Windows 8 XAML stack.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:32 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project Hi Ian (and Stephen), No I was absentmindedly on Windows 7 where I do the bulk of my normal work. In a tiny hint in some web search I saw a comment about no support in Windows 7. I just went over to a VM running VS2013 retail and it has lots of phone templates, so there you go! I staggers me though, as I thought it was all simulated and I find it hard to believe a certain type of VS project needs Windows 8. That means that Windows 8 is actually useful for something!! (for the wrong reasons) -- Greg On 18 November 2014 14:42, ILT (O) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Are you developing on Windows 8.1 with VS2013? ________________________________ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 2:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: VS2013 Windows Phone project Folks, I have been asked to write a demo Windows Phone app, which I've never done before, but I'm keen to give it a bash. However, I'm off to a bad start. VS2013 Update 4 has no New Project template for a phone app. I have installed all VS2013 features. I can see the Windows Phone SDK v8.0 and v8.1 folders under Program Files(x86). Web searches hint that I should just be able to select New Project and off I go. What's missing? -- Greg K
