tags:

views:

82

answers:

1
Q: 

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools and Existing Visual Studio 2010 Install - How?

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 developer site that contains the following:

* Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
* Windows Phone Emulator CTP
* Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
* XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP

I already have Visual Studio 2010 installed. Will the installer use my existing installation of VS2010 and add to it or will it install an Express edition alongside it? I really wouldn't want the latter.

+1  A: 

Hi Andrew,

You'll get express with it, but you can safely ignore it. There is no option to avoid this that I've come across.

Mick N  2010-07-09 14:19:56
So there is no way to integrate the Phone 7 dev environment with an existing VS2010 install?
Andrew J. Brehm  2010-07-09 15:24:52
Yes, if you have VS2010 already installed, the tools will install into that environment. In the current build of the tools, it will also create a Program Files entry for the Express version. You can still use VS2010 to do your phone development and, as Trees points out, "safely ignore" the Express tools.
Chris Koenig  2010-07-09 20:28:56
Very good. It's still annoying but at least it'll add to my installation rather than break it.
Andrew J. Brehm  2010-07-10 11:52:16

related questions

Code searching / browsing / cross referenced web sites
Javascript debugging
Is there a tool that can transform a static SQL string into valid Drupal db query code?
The display order of CSS rules in Chrome Developer Tools
How to generate external intellisense documentation
Why do people spend so much time searching for, and hacking around with, "free" toolsets when superior pay ones are available?
Displaying values for date objects in Google Chrome Developer Tools
View AJAX response content in Chrome developer tools?
Viewing HTML response from Ajax call through Chrome Developer tools?
What is the best developer toolbar for IE?
Any form autofill for 'Developers'?
Tool to generate rotated versions of an image
Would you use Code Bubbles?
How to edit an IFrame in the IE8 Developer Tools?
HTTP logging in IE8 developer tools?
Trim trailing spaces in XCode
Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools not displaying
What's a good mail server for development use?
Increasing productivity | What commands am I repeating?
What's the best new development tool of 2009?
What new tools can be found in Visual Studio 2010?
Your experiences with Visual Studio 2010 CTP?
What features would you most like to see in Visual Studio 2010?
Microsoft Certified Partner? Important to Developers?