Is it possible to develope Windows 8 Phone apps without VS2012 and Windows 8 OS?

[DougP]

I know there is a Windows Phone Development forum but the 4 posts are unanswered so I thought I would ask here?
I have a Windows 8 Phone and want to make apps but don't have the $$$$ to move get VS2012 and Windows 8 OS.


TIA

DougP

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

Might be better off here?

http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/community

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[hairlessupportmonkey]

and here

http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk

you can access this with a normal windows live account.

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[DougP]

sweet

DougP

 

[vacunita]

As far as I know Visual Studio is required to build and deploy the Apps, though the actual coding depending on your language of choice can be done elsewhere.

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[xwb]

You could use the express version of Visual Studio for Windows Phone. 2010 will run on Windows7, 2012 needs Windows8.

 

[DougP]

I found out the hangup is the windows phone 8 SDK will not install on anything but Winodws 8. there are hacks but ???
So if you get 2012 on win 7 you are'nt going to be able to use it to make '8 phone apps with out the SDK?


DougP

 

[flyboytim]

You could try the evaluation here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx

for 90 days, if you can spare the disk space.