How to open application (XAP) in Windows Phone 7 Emulator without Visual Studio running and/or source files?
You’ve developed your first Windows Phone 7 application and you want to share it with your friends or colleagues? Just follow this simple steps:
- Copy all files from “Bin\Release” folder of your project. Move it to target machine.
- Have the Windows Phone 7 SDK installed on target machine (comes with Developer Tools)
- Open “XapDeploy.exe” in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Tools\XAP Deployment” (actual path may vary on your system, but you get the idea)
- Select “Windows Phone 7 Emulator” as Target
- Browse for XAP file on your disk (the one you’ve copied from “Bin\Release” folder)
- Deploy
That’s it!



