Lately I’m trying windows phone 7 as smartphone OS, and I’m very satisfied of it: responsive, crash free, well designed and I loved the graphic theme… It do what it has to! Being a programmer I wanted also try to develop something on this new platform, but my vm on mac is a win xp, for performace reasons, and Microsoft developer tools for WP7 don’t allow (by default) the install on Windows XP. To overcome this problem I found a little but very useful post from www.brucebarrera.com :
- Download Windows Phone 7 dev tools from here
- Extract the contents of the package to a specified folder by using vm_web.exe /x
- from the extracted files open baseline.dat with a text editor
- go to the section [gencomp7788]
- change the values of InstallOnLHS and InstallOnWinXP from 1 to 0
- save the file baseline.dat
- Run setup.exe /web from the folder you extracted to in step 2
Thanx to Bruce Barrera for the tip!
