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Sent from Surface From: David Richards Sent: Friday, 26 June 2015 8:18 AM To: ozDotNet Stephen, Interesting idea. But I did use the exact same install files I normally use on windows 7. I keep them handy on our file server. My suspicion is the installers are relying on a particular method of checking for installed copies of VS. There is probably some subtle difference between windows 7 and 8 that makes that check fail. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 25 June 2015 at 17:36, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: Not heard anything either way (sorry that's not much help) but if you are installing WM SDK, check that you are not installing a newer version than what you currently have working on your Windows 7 machine. From what you have said its more likely an issue with mismatched VS to SDK versions. As a rule of thumb if it runs on Windows 7, it should run on Windows 8. If you were to install all the stuff you are installing onto a Windows 7 machine you'd probably hit the same issue. If you have a windows 7 vm you might try it to verify that, but depends how long it takes, if you want to go there On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM, David Richards <ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: Greetings all, I'm currently on windows 7 but we've recently bought new hardware and we're "upgrading" to windows 8 (and presumably 10 soon) but I'm having compatibility problems. We need to be able to develop for windows mobile (as opposed to windows phone) but I can't seem to get it working on windows 8. I managed to get VS 2008 SP1 installed but when I try to install any of the WM SDKs, they complain that VS isn't installed and won't let me proceed. I'm dreading having to keep my windows 7 machine running just for WM development but this is what I'm facing. Does anyone know if it's possible to develop for WM on windows 8? Or conversely, does anyone KNOW that it's not possible? I haven't been able to find a definitive answer so far. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
