Does Microsoft release depend windows phone emulator for 10

[Mr. Smith]

Does Microsoft release independ windows phone emulator for windows 10 ? It is in Visual Studio 2015 already. But It's not possible for me to install a "fat" VS in my PC
By the way ,I am not a developer in Windows Phone. I just want to try it.

[Goldfish64]

Does Microsoft release independ windows phone emulator for windows 10 ? It is in Visual Studio 2015 already. But It's not possible for me to install a "fat" VS in my PC
By the way ,I am not a developer in Windows Phone. I just want to try it.

Nope. You need Visual Studio. You could try, but it will probably want Visual Studio.

Note you'll also need Windows 10 Pro.

[gus33000]

You don't really need visual studio, just install the latest emulator from here (Latest insider release, 10.0.14366.0), after it's installed, make sure you have hyper-v installed (you may need to reboot for this) then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14366.0\ (or something like that), open a command prompt as administrator, and run:

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mkdir "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\"
XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd" /creatediffdisk "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

then after using this command once, if you wish to restart the emulator, run:

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XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

Additionally, if you wish to try out the hololens emulator too, here are some commands:

First run:

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mkdir "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\HoloLens\10.0.14342.1018\flash.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /creatediffdisk "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /fastShutdown /sku HDE

After first run:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /fastShutdown /sku HDE

[MrUTB]

Nice info Gustave, the best and fast choice is made some batch files to accomplish that.

Anyway, thanks.

Sent from Space

[Mr. Smith]

You don't really need visual studio, just install the latest emulator from here (Latest insider release, 10.0.14366.0), after it's installed, make sure you have hyper-v installed (you may need to reboot for this) then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14366.0\ (or something like that), open a command prompt as administrator, and run:

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mkdir "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\"
XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd" /creatediffdisk "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

then after using this command once, if you wish to restart the emulator, run:

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XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

Additionally, if you wish to try out the hololens emulator too, here are some commands:

First run:

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mkdir "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\HoloLens\10.0.14342.1018\flash.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /creatediffdisk "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /fastShutdown /sku HDE

After first run:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /fastShutdown /sku HDE

Do you have independent windows phone 7 and 8.1 emulator package?

[Goldfish64]

For WP7, those run on VPC, so the commands are different. If you're using Windows 10, at least x64, it won't work. 8.0 and 8.1 use Hyper-V and similar commands to those that gus33000 posted.

EDIT: The RTM 8.0 SDK is separate, but it installs VS2012 Express. The RTM 8.1 SDK is only available with VS 2015 now.
EDIT2: For WP8.0 RTM and WP8.1 RTM, VS 2015 Community is the best way to get those. You can get it from here. The others can be found here.

[Fuzzy_Blanket]

You don't really need visual studio, just install the latest emulator from here (Latest insider release, 10.0.14366.0), after it's installed, make sure you have hyper-v installed (you may need to reboot for this) then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14366.0\ (or something like that), open a command prompt as administrator, and run:

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mkdir "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\"
XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd" /creatediffdisk "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

then after using this command once, if you wish to restart the emulator, run:

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XDE.exe /nogpu vhd "%userprofile%\Documents\XDE Emulator\Mobile\10.0.14366.0\Flash.vhd"

Additionally, if you wish to try out the hololens emulator too, here are some commands:

First run:

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mkdir "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\HoloLens\10.0.14342.1018\flash.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /creatediffdisk "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /fastShutdown /sku HDE

After first run:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.14342.0\XDE.exe"  /name "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /displayName "HoloLens Emulator 10.0.14342.1018" /vhd "C:\Hololens\10.0.14342.1018\dd.1268x720.2048.vhd" /video "1268x720" /memsize 2048 /language 409 /fastShutdown /sku HDE

It gives me a usage screen when I run those commands and It won't let me create a VM.