问题
I tried to run the Windows Phone 7.1 emulator on Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1. When I start the emulator, it shows the following error.
Followed by this error when I press "Run the program without getting help":
WHY WINDOWS PHONE 7.1 SDK, NOT WINDOWS PHONE 8:
The reason why I am setting this up as such is because I want to develop XNA games for Windows Phone 7 to 8. Hence the reason why I am still using the Windows Phone 7.1 developer kit. I have previously created and published XNA games (educational) in Windows 8 using Visual Studio 2010. I am using Visual Studio 2013 this time around because I would like to use the latest VS for all my programming needs.
Exact steps taken:
Install VS 2013 quite awhile ago
Update to Windows 8.1 yesterday
Downloaded Windows Phone 7.1 developer kit
Tried to run the emulator but it failed as described above!
TRIED TO INSTALL WINDOWS PHONE 7.1.1 UPDATE IN ATTEMPT TO FIX IT, THE INSTALLATION GAVE THE FOLLOWING ERROR "Fatal error during installation". The installation failed.
Searching of all possible solutions but so far I have been unable to find out how to install Windows Phone 7.1.1 update.
Please help me!
回答1:
The Windows Phone 8.0 SDK include the ability to create apps for 7.1 and 8.0 so there should be no need to install the 7.1 SDK.
HOWEVER
Developing apps for 7.x is not supported in Visual Studio 2013. If you must target 7.x devices you'll need to use VS2010 or VS2012.
If you want o build for Windows Phone 7.x you should use Visual Studio 2012. You can install this AND Visual Studio 2013 on the same machine. The only thing you may not end up being able to do is having a single solution with all projects in that you can use in both versions of VS.
回答2:
According to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27570, The Windows Phone SDK 7.1 is only compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
According to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29233, The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update is also only compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Try installing the Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8, which is compatible with Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36474
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23987654/windows-phone-7-1-emulator-not-working-on-visual-studio-2013-windows-8-1