For those who installed Microsoft visual studio 2010 and expect to check the functionality of windows phone 7 on emulator, there's both good news and bad news, First the bad news is , the Emulator shipped in VS2010 is a locked version that is you can only use Internet explorer and Settings or Run the developed application on it, other things such as Email, calendar, Facebook, Xboxlive etc are locked see below PIC how emulator looked before patching, i don't know why MS intentionally locked WP7 features in emulator or is it that they do not want to reveal features at the early stage? since vS2010 was released way back before actually WP7 was released in the market.
What ever it is the good new is after search on world wide web i came across many patches and cracked version of Windows Phone 7 images which emulates more or less full functionality of WP7 below is the instruction on how to download the patched/cracked wp7 emulator and use it follow below steps
1. Download the WP7 unlocked image from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11148176#post11148176 thanks to people at XDA developer forum
2. After Downloading go to the WP7 emulator image path in your computer the path may change depending on where you have installed however the default path is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Emulation\Images
3. Now you can find the Original emulator image 'WM70C1.en-US' it is recommended to rename it to other name say 'WM70C1Orginal.en-US' so that you can always revertback if something goes wrong.
4. Now extract the downloaded unlocked emulator "wm70_copypaste" and rename it to "WM70C1.en-US" to the original image name and put it in the above mentioned images folder path, thats it now you can enjoy most of the features that needs to be there in whats the real emulator should rightly have.
Now once you open the emulator from VS2010 it boots for the first time and below is the video how the unlocked emulator experince looks like
Note that not all the features work right such as xbox, configuring email have few issues but it gives overall experince and feel on how Windows Phone 7 works.
What ever it is the good new is after search on world wide web i came across many patches and cracked version of Windows Phone 7 images which emulates more or less full functionality of WP7 below is the instruction on how to download the patched/cracked wp7 emulator and use it follow below steps1. Download the WP7 unlocked image from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11148176#post11148176 thanks to people at XDA developer forum
2. After Downloading go to the WP7 emulator image path in your computer the path may change depending on where you have installed however the default path is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Emulation\Images
3. Now you can find the Original emulator image 'WM70C1.en-US' it is recommended to rename it to other name say 'WM70C1Orginal.en-US' so that you can always revertback if something goes wrong.
4. Now extract the downloaded unlocked emulator "wm70_copypaste" and rename it to "WM70C1.en-US" to the original image name and put it in the above mentioned images folder path, thats it now you can enjoy most of the features that needs to be there in whats the real emulator should rightly have.
Now once you open the emulator from VS2010 it boots for the first time and below is the video how the unlocked emulator experince looks like
Note that not all the features work right such as xbox, configuring email have few issues but it gives overall experince and feel on how Windows Phone 7 works.
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