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How to start Windows Phone 8 Emulator without Visual Studio
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WPEmulator.lnk
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\8.0\XDE.exe" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Emulation\Images\Flash.vhd" /video "720x1280" /memsize 1024 /language 409 /creatediffdisk "%Temp%\dd.720x1280.1024.vhd" /fastShutdown
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i486nugget commented Dec 16, 2024

Thanks. The virtual Windows phone hangs on the starting up screen though

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atma commented Dec 16, 2024

Not surprised, this gist was created 11 years ago 😅

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i486nugget commented Dec 16, 2024

I got the emulator running. I had to set up a VM in Hyper-V manually using that VHD. Since it works I may as well start developing apps for it tomorrow!

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