How to debug Windows Phone 8 apps on a phone
Well we’re back with a quick tip for all you Appsters out there looking to sink your claws into the brave new world of Windows Phone 8 app development. If you’ve bought a Windows 8 phone, you probably want to know how you can debug your Windows Phone 8 apps on your phone. In order [...]
Posted on December 23, 2012 by Bobby Gill+ in How-to Guides, Windows Phone
Well we’re back with a quick tip for all you Appsters out there looking to sink your claws into the brave new world of Windows Phone 8 app development. If you’ve bought a Windows 8 phone, you probably want to know how you can debug your Windows Phone 8 apps on your phone.
In order to be able to use your Windows Phone 8 device to debug your own custom apps, you need to first unlock that phone for development. Here are the steps to doing it:
1.) Sign up for a Windows Phone 8 developer account. This costs about $99 / year, you can sign up here
2.) Install the Windows Phone 8 SDK on your machine. You can download that here. (It clocks in at a feather weight 7.5GB of space!!)
3.) Plug your phone into your computer’s USB port, and make sure the screen is unlocked.
3.) The SDK installs a program called “Windows Phone Developer Registration”, find that app and run it.
4.) You will see a screen like this:
Windows Phone 8 Developer Phone Registration
5.) Press “Register”, and it will prompt you for your Windows Live ID that you used to register as a developer as.
6.) Boom! Phone is now unlocked and ready for you to debug to your heart’s content.
Bobby Gill is Editor-in-Chief of IdeaToAppster.com, author of "Appsters: A Beginner's Guide to App Entrepreneurship" and the founder of Blue Label Labs, a mobile development lab based in New York and Seattle. In addition to building its own apps, Blue Label Labs provides design and engineering services to mobile app clients across the world. Prior to starting Blue Label Labs, Bobby spent 4 years at Microsoft as a Program Manager within the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) product group. During this time, Bobby served as an engineering and architectural lead for the FIM server specializing in database and web service design. After Microsoft, Bobby worked as a Summer Associate at McKinsey & Co. where he was part of a service operations enhancement program within the high-tech industry. Bobby holds a Bachelor of Mathematics specializing in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia Business School.
