Deploying Silverlight applications to WinPhone7 emulator without Visual Studio

Question

As per title, I would like to deploy my application without its Visual Studio project. I would prefer to place all executables/images/manifests in one directory and deploy it without needing the source or opening Visual Studio.

There is a way to do that for XNA apps, but it doesn't work for Silverlight apps for some reason. Other people had the same problem.

EDIT I know Phone Developer Tools are free and I am not trying to eliminate VS from my workflow. I just want to be able to grab the latest binary from the build server and quickly run it up in demo situations.

Answer 1

Visual Studio Express is free, and I think you can get a version of VS2010 now too.

Answer 2

When you install the latest developer tools you get an application called "XAP Deployment" which can install a pre-built XAP onto either the emulator or the phone.

Answer 3

How to: Use the XAP Deployment Tool for Windows Phone