Monday, February 21, 2011

Install Windows Phone 7 Developing Tool on Windows Server 2008

By default, only Vista and Windows 7 are supported for the Windows Phone 7 development tools. In order to install it on Windows Server 2008, the following steps are required:
1. download Windows Phone Developer tool from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=04704acf-a63a-4f97-952c-8b51b34b00ce&displaylang=en

2. extrace the downloaded file by running a console command: vm_web.exe /x

3. Edit extracted file baseline.dat, by looking for section named [gencomp7788]
Changing the value InstallOnLHS from 1 to 0
Changing the value InstallOnWin7Server from 1 to 0

4. Save the udpated baseline.dat

5. Run setup.exe /web

6. Download and install Windows phone developer Tool Janunary 2011 Update from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=49b9d0c5-6597-4313-912a-f0cca9c7d277&displaylang=en


Jonathan

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