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4.3 Watch Example and Windows Phone 7

The Watch example includes C# generator also for the Windows Phone 7 platform. In order to try out the Windows Phone 7 applications generated from the Watch example, you need to install Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone to get the required development tools, libraries and emulator. The package is available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/windows-phone-developer-tools. Download and install the SDK (if you already have Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Ultimate available in your system, only the WP7 specific components will be installed). After the installation, edit the $visualStudioWP7 variable in the ‘__Paths’ subgenerator to point to the correct path if needed.

Generating for WP7 is simple, just select ‘C#: WP7’ as the Generation target platform and run the ‘Autobuild’ generator. You can also launch the generation from the Visual Studio extension. After the generation, the C# code will be loaded into Visual Studio, compiled there and executed in the Windows Phone 7 emulator (as in Figure 4-6).

Figure 4-6. Visual Studio extension and Windows Phone 7


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