window phone 8 emulator internet connection

Question

I was using the win8 phone emulator, but it's internet explorer could not display webpage ,showing no connectivity to internet. I checked a lot from microsoft site and tried, I'm sure that i enabled automatic DNS server. I'm using wifi connection.

I saw lot of people having this issues as well, have anyone success to solve it?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I configured the Windows Phone Emulator External Interface, on my emulator image. Here is what i did:

• Open you Hyper-V Manager
• Right click on the emulator image settings
• Click on Windows Phone Emulator External Interface
• Bind the Virtual switch to your physical network device (on my mbpro was the Intel Pro)

Answer 2

In my case only Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch was configured.
Therefore, I had to add the external switch using those steps:

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager , and click on your computer name in the left pane (under Hyper-V Manager).
2. Under Actions (on the right), click Virtual Switch Manager.. Virtual Switch Manager window will open, displaying all the configured virtual switches.
3. Verify that you have only one switch - named Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch . Its Connection type configured as Internal network . Leave it as is.
4. Now add a new (external) virtual network switch:
   Set the Connection type to External Network , choose your active network adapter and check the Allow management operating system to share this network adapter .
5. Save the changes and restart your emulator.

You can find more details here .