Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread David Richards
*sigh* Turns out I accidentally installed VS 2008 Standard instead of Professional. I've now installed Professional and was able to then install a WM SDK. So many wasted hours. Thanks for the suggestions. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Bill McCarthy
But even as local admin, you still need to install “as admin” Sent from Surface From: David Richards Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎26‎ ‎June‎ ‎2015 ‎1‎:‎13‎ ‎PM To: ozDotNet My account is local admin so yes for VS, The SDKs won't install so no for them :) David "If we can hit that bullse

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread David Richards
My account is local admin so yes for VS, The SDKs won't install so no for them :) David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 26 June 2015 at 12:24, Bill McCarthy wrote: > Sorry, I was thinking wp.

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Bill McCarthy
Sorry, I was thinking wp. For wm, it may still be an emulator problem but that’d be virtual pc (possibly). You did install vs pro and the sdk both as admin? Sent from Surface From: David Richards Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎26‎ ‎June‎ ‎2015 ‎11‎:‎42‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet No, why? David "If w

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread David Richards
No, why? David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 26 June 2015 at 11:26, Bill McCarthy wrote: > Does your new machine have Hyper-v installed and working? > > Sent from Surface > > *From:* David R

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Bill McCarthy
Does your new machine have Hyper-v installed and working? Sent from Surface From: David Richards Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎26‎ ‎June‎ ‎2015 ‎11‎:‎03‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet That's our fallback option. Although we use VMWare. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that but it's not looking good so far.

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread David Richards
That's our fallback option. Although we use VMWare. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that but it's not looking good 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 On 26 June 2015 at 10:58, Greg Keogh

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Hyper-v ?? > I wrote a Windows phone 8 app last December and I had to do it on Windows 8 (after naively installing everything on Win7 and finding options and features missing). I remember getting some weird errors that were fixed by configuring Hyper-V, but I can't remember the details now sor

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Bill McCarthy
Hyper-v ?? 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 instal

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread David Richards
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 wi

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Stephen Price
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

Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-24 Thread David Richards
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