Build applications for Windows phone 8 using VS 2010

Question

Is there a way to build Windows phone 8 applications using Windows 7 and VS 2010 ? Or is mandatory yo have installed Windows 8 and VS 2012, if so is there possible a conversion from application build using VS 2010 on Windows 7 to the one required by Windows 8 ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Yes, you need windows 8. No, it won't work on Visual Studio 2010 - but that also doesn't mean that you need Visual Studio 2012 - you can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone

Also keep in mind that the emulator for this uses Hyper-V, so you'll need a machine capable of running in hypervisor mode. Full system requirements are listed on the linked page (x64, win 8 pro, hyper-v, SLAT, etc)