VS Community 2015 - No Windows Phone Emulator Installed

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DeanB_Develop picture DeanB_Develop · Jul 20, 2015 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I get the following error when trying to build (Debug > Windows Phone > Device) the default Cordova TypeScript project :

No Windows Phone 8 emulators installed. Please install Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone 8 tools selected to install the emulators enter image description here

Note: I was using the release candiate of Visual Studio 2015 and just installed the trial version of Visual Studio Community 2015.

Installing Visual Studio 2013 Windows Phone 8 tools can't be the correct solution.

Answer

mauron85 picture mauron85 · Oct 19, 2015

I've downloaded and installed wpsdkv80_enu1.iso from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471. It is Windows Phone SDK 8.0 and Emulator and it's working fine with Visual Studio 2015 Community

If you want to only test universal apps, you don't need to download WP SDK 8.0. You can debug universal apps directly from VS by switching platform to Windows Phone(universal) and choose Windows 8.1 Emulator. But it expects Emulators for Windows Phone 8.1 to be installed.

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If didn't installed Emulators for Windows Phone 8.1 you can do so in Program and Features -> Visual Studio 2015 -> Change.

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