Install Windows Phone 7 SDK on windows 2008 R2

Aaron Stebner’s WebLog shows us how to install Windows Phone 7 SDK on Windows 2008 R2.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx

  1. Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools web bootstrapper and save it to your hard drive
  2. Extract the contents of the setup package by running vm_web.exe /x and choosing a path to extract to
  3. Go to the folder you extracted to in step 2 and open the file baseline.dat in notepad
  4. Look for the section named [gencomp7788]

    Note – you have to change this exact section – this is the one that controls the OS version blocking behavior in Windows Phone Developer Tools setup.

  5. Change the value InstallOnLHS from 1 to 0
  6. Change the value InstallOnWin7Server from 1 to 0
  7. Save and close baseline.dat
  8. Run setup.exe /web from the folder you extracted to in step 2

Updated: This also works for WP7.1 sdk Laughing

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