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Windows Phone 7 SDK and Visual Studio 2010 RTM

Answer 1

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It's because Windows Phone 7 dev is incompatible with the VS 2010 RTM. I just made the same upsetting discovery.

You can register to be emailed when they release a compatible one here

Official story here.

TreeUK 2010-04-12 19:57:32

Man that sucks and the site you linked gives a 500 when I try to register..Cheers though!

Alex DeLarge 2010-04-12 21:03:55

Try it again, didn't work first time for me either.

TreeUK 2010-04-12 21:11:15

Annoying isn't it anybody tried with the Express editions yet? It's unclear whether it's just an issue with the full version or not

David Hayes 2010-04-12 21:50:27

I installed the Visual Studio 2010 Express before finding this out myself. Installing a Virtual Machine to run VS 2010 on while keeping the VS 2010 for Windows Phone CTP on physical machine works for me. Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is built with a non-RTM version of Visual Studio 2010 which is why they are not compatible. Some more updates are coming in May, information wise, so this may indicate that a Visual Studio 2010 Express RTM release will come then also.

RoguePlanetoid 2010-04-16 10:25:42

Answer 2

+5 A:

Hey guys, I am Director of Developer Experience on Windows Phone 7. This error is in fact an issue with customers who have installed VS2010 RTM. If you haven't installed VS2010 RTM, you are unaffected. Once you install VS2010 RTM, you cannot install the Express SKU of the Phone tools.

We should have a refresh of the Windows Phone Developer Tools shortly which will fix this issue, as well as add a few updates. I will update this answer when we post the updated tools, but should anyone have questions, I am on twitter @brandonwatson.

UPDATE: the tools are live - if you have final build of VS2010, go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cabcd5ed-7dfc-4731-9d7e-3220603cad14

Brandon Watson 2010-04-27 20:33:19

Hi BrandonThanks so much for your reply, however I wiped and reinstalled my machine on the day of RTM so I got the above error on a machine that never saw the RC?Alex..

Alex DeLarge 2010-04-28 09:22:19

Alex, can you walk me through your install process? Did you wipe, and then install VS2010, or try to install Windows Phone Dev tools on a machine that had was newly wiped and had never seen VS2010?

Brandon Watson 2010-04-29 19:15:45

Can not install, it keeps tellinf me that Microsoft Phone Developer Tools must be removed. An this does not appear in add/remove programs.

vzczc 2010-04-30 08:27:12

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