Develop for Windows Phone 7 with Windows 8
0. Environment
Windows 8 Enterprice x64
Visual studio 2010 and 2012
Mobile phone with Windows Phone 7.5 (Nokia Lumia 800)
1. Steps
1.1 Download and install Windows Phone 7 SDK 7.1
In this step, you will get error:
Setup could not install the following components:
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Extensions for XNA Game Studio 4.0
1.2 Download and install Games for Windows Marketplace Client
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient
1.3 Install Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 and 7.8 updates
1.4 install Zune software
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/zune/software/download
2. Problems
XNA is not supported in Windows 8, so you will get error in step 1.1, you need step 1.2 to fix this error
3. References
https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Windows-Phone-7-App-Development.aspx
http://jy8.milaile.com/u/58/archives/2012/1056.htm
http://www.geekchamp.com/articles/deploying-wp7-xap-files-to-a-device-or-emulator
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769508%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
(This article is from http://www.cnblogs.com/chenyineng/archive/2013/03/19/2969532.html, and belongs to http://chenyineng.cnblogs.com and http://www.chenyineng.info)