How to run the Windows Phone 10 Emulator?

Question

I\'m lost while searching how to start the Windows Phone 10 Emulator.

What I already did:
I downloaded the Emulator image and installed it (I know the location o

Answer 1

The emulator's executable is \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\xde.exe

Run it with /? to get help on the arguments.

Here's how (a slightly out of date) VS 2015 launches it for me (gleaned from procexp). Update this to your folders and options and it should launch the emulator from the command line:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.1.0\XDE.exe" /name "Emulator 10.0.1.0 WVGA 4 inch 512MB.rob" /displayName "Emulator 10.0.1.0 WVGA 4 inch 512MB" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Emulation\Mobile\10.0.1.0\Flash.vhd" /video "480x854" /memsize 512 /diagonalSize 4 /language 409 /creatediffdisk "C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\10.0.1.0\dd.480x854.512.vhd" /snapshot /fastShutdown