This section describes the software requirements for running this toolkit.

Software Requirements

You must have the following components installed to run the project templates and the sample solutions included in this toolkit:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional (or higher) or both Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
  • Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3
  • Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate
  • Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
  • Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7)
  • Windows Azure SDK for .NET – November 2011
  • Windows Identity Foundation Runtime
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (or higher)
  • Entity Framework 4.1 Code First
  • Internet Explorer 9 (or any other modern Web browser supporting HTML5)

Note: The Configuration Wizard included with this toolkit is used to check the dependencies and install the VSIX files with the project templates. To launch it, browse to the root installation folder, and double-click Setup.cmd.

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Last edited Nov 14, 2011 at 5:43 PM by mconverti, version 20

Comments

karlgots Jul 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM 
To install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 you need Visual Studio 2010 SP1 installed.
Also, you need to use Web Platform Installer 3.0, not the current 4.0! Otherwise the dependancy checker will fail, as well as the whole installation.

For more info, see http://watwp.codeplex.com/workitem/12301

payini Feb 18, 2012 at 4:01 AM 
Good thing installer takes care of requirement installs.