Is it possible to install "Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW" on a machine without installing Visual Studio and Expression Blend?
The reason I am asking is that I want to install it on a build server.
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Does the download from that link require VS or Expression Blend? It shoudln't.
- Michael Burr
@Michael - no, but the Windows Phone download is harder to fathom - see microsoft.com/downloads/en/…
- Steve Townsend
@Steve: I was confused what you were talking about with the Windows Phone download since it has nothing to do with the SDK, but now I see there are some Windows Phone tags on the question... So I guess I should be confused.
- Michael Burr
@Michael, yes I'm guessing that's of interest to @Simon. Looks like MS is currently targeting desktop development/build only for this?
- Steve Townsend
@Steve: I don't know what MS is doing for Phone development other than a lot of people seemed angry/confused that VS2010 had no support. It's possible that MS's story for scripted builds involves installing the "Phone Developer Tools" to the build server and just ignoring the IDE (invoking msbuild or something). But since I've never done any Win Phone development I really don't know.
- Michael Burr
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Yes, that's exactly why downloads like the one you referenced exist - build servers, production servers have to build/run without Visual Studio.
Do you have specific needs here? I see the q is tagged for Windows Phone.
Online info about the Windows Phone developer tools seems to indicate that it's currently a bit of a work in progress. Don't see any obvious way to put this standalone on a build machine.
