I've been using microsoft virtual pc to locally run multiple internet explorer versions on my web development machine.
Most the time I pull down the vhds I need from Microsoft here
however, I have not found an IE 10 vhd anywhere on microsoft.com. I've asked microsoft here as well.
Should I copy a windows 7 vhd and just upgrade it to IE 10 for now? cross my fingers it won't run differently on windows 8?
Yup! VM Appliances for all your base are here: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
Since you're running Windows XP and already have a Windows 7 VHD, I would say make a duplicate copy of it and upgrade it to IE10. IE10 for Windows 7 can be got from here.
I would suggest you to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro as it includes Hyper-V and native VHD booting support. Native VHD booting is on Windows 7 as well. See this post. This enables you to boot multiple Windows OSes as if running on bare metal.
Let me know if you need further clarifications.
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Here's the setup:
I'm trying to connect / deploy to a Motorola Windows Embedded Compact 7 device from VS 2008. The development machine VM is Windows XP (it has tools and SDKs going back to eVC3 on it that will not run on anything newer). It is therefore running ActiveSync as opposed to WMDC. Basic RAPI seems to be working as I can browse the device file system, ect via ActiveSync. This developemnt system works successfully with dozens of other devices, but this might be the first CE 7 device. And again, the error message was simply "The bootstrap could not be loaded".
I'd appreciate any tips on getting a successful connection to the CE 7 device working.
I had exactly the same problem. The solution for me was to install the SDK for the pda. Mine was MC32N0.
You can find the sdk here
I am working on application for Windows 8 tablet and would like to leverage some features introduced in IE 11.
I am using laptop with Windows 8.1 and IE 11. I was really surprised to see when I was debugging in VS 2013 that my app is running on IE 10 but not IE 11.
I tried to build project in Eclipse setting it up that it should use external browser as it adviced in this article: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600697 but no luck :-( it still use IE10.
Is there is a way to debug a Windows 8 tablet app in VS 2013 using default browser on laptop? Like IE 11 on Windows 8.1 laptop.
Thank you in advance for help!
The option you tried is not related as it is about Worklight Console's MBS, whereas you are talking about Visual Studio which is an external IDE for Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 app development...
What you want to do is set Internet Explorer 11 as your default browser in your Windows 8 Desktop machine (running Visual Studio). However, that seems to be not so straight forward with Visual Studio in the mix.
Here are some possible solutions:
Where does Visual Studio stores the default browser to use in debug?
Visual Studio opens the default browser instead of Internet Explorer
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/2131/set-default-browser-in-visual-studio.aspx
Perhaps this as well:
http://developer.telerik.com/featured/5-ways-to-build-mobile-apps-with-visual-studio/
http://blog.credera.com/technology-insights/microsoft-solutions/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-debugging-in-visual-studio-2012/
We have an ASP.net application that uses charFx 6.2. It works on windows XP clients but the clients who run Windows7 can not see the chart. Any help in this regard is really appreciated.
Thanks
The Windows 7 users probably have a newer version of Internet Explorer which is incompatible with the older version of ChartFX.
You could try to update ChartFX or run an older version of IE (through something like Citrix) on the Windows 7 machines.
I've a windows 8 app and a windows 2012 Build Server with Jenkins and / or Finalbulder Contiua.
No I can only install Visual Studio for WinRT Apps only on Windows 8 or later.
So this means ,that my build server has to be windows , right
is there a way to compule windows 8 apps on non windows 8 os ?
Is there some kind of "build win 8 sdk" for other os ?
Short answer: no, you'll need Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012.
A Jenkins-specific tip: I tried a number of things but did not manage to have it start apps when Jenkins runs as a service. Starting from a logged-in user account was the only way I could get it to work.
Also I'd like to recommend our Apprunner project which we developed to install, run and uninstall packages from within Jenkins.
Finally, if you're working on a Javascript-based app, you can have a look at the unit-testing-related code in our SQLite component which uses Jasmine and outputs JUnit/Jenkins-compatible test result files.
There's no emulator for Windows 8, so in order to develop metro apps I must install the release candidate on a device and run Visual Studio there, right? That's what this page seems to suggest, but I just wanted to double check.
Yes, Windows8 is required.
However, VM can be used. For example, I'm running Win8RP/64 and VS2012RC in Oracle VirtualBox on Win7/64.
NOTE: For developing Metro Style App, you should NOT install VirtualBox Extension Pack.
Yes, you need Windows 8 to develop Windows 8 Metro style apps.
Metro Style apps rely on a new set of APIs which are implemented only in Windows 8 through the the Windows Runtime (WinRT).
There is no emulator for Windows 7 and not even for Windows 8... Windows 8 has a simulator which in practice is just a Remote Desktop session to the same machine. It is not an emulator.
While Windows 8 is not in its final version, what I recommend is to install Windows 8 in a VHD (virtual hard disk) and boot your PC directly to the VHD. It is faster than running virtual machines (because only the disk is virtual, all the rest is real hardware) and you can keep your Windows 7 intact.
This is what I've been using since Developer Preview. I have a dual-boot configuration being one for the Windows 7 that is booting from the regular disk partition, and one Windows 8 that is booting directly from the VHD on disk.
Metro UI style is just a design approach and some guidelines. You are free to implement such interface using Visual Studio 2010 as well as 2008. Using C# and WPF everything is possible. But, indeed, new Visual Studio has a set of Metro style components (WPF) with which your development process will be much more quicker.
The only thing you can't use at OS other than Windows 8 - is WinRT subsystem.
Almost all of the development tools needed to build Metro style applications can be run on OS's other than Windows 8 (Visual Studio and the package creation tools require Windows 8). So it should be possible to set up a build environment using msbuild.exe (or even make/nmake) that will compile and link metro-style applications on an OS other than Windows 8.
However some parts of development MUST be done on Windows 8 - the tools for some of the steps of development will only run on Windows 8.