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Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta and XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta now available for download

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As announced on the Windows Phone Developer Blog, a Windows Phone Developer Tools (WPDT) Beta (which includes an XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta as well) was released for download today.

Getting Started links

Here are links to help you get started installing and using the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta:

Documentation links

Here are some links to useful documentation to help you get started with the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta:

Support links

Here are some links if you run into questions or issues with the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta:

How to install

Here are steps you can use to install the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta:

  1. If you have either of the previous Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs installed, you will need to uninstall them first.  You can do that by going to the Programs and Features control panel and choosing to remove the item named Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP – ENU.  This item will remove the other components that need to be removed.
  2. If you have the Visual Studio 2010 RC on your system, you will also need to uninstall that before you can install the WPDT Beta.
  3. (optional) If you plan to also use another VS 2010 edition (such as Professional, Ultimate, C# Express, etc) in addition to WPDT, you should install them before you install the WPDT Beta.  If you install them after the WPDT Beta, you will be prompted to download and install a Silverlight update when trying to use them.
  4. After removing previous WPDT CTPs and the VS 2010 RC (if you had it installed still) and installing other VS 2010 editions (if you choose to), you can proceed with installing the WPDT Beta.

If you encounter Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta setup failures

If you run into an installation or uninstallation failure for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta, you can use the log collection tool to gather your setup log files.  This log collection tool will create a file named %temp%\vslogs.cab.

This tool does not gather XNA Game Studio 4.0 setup log files, so if your setup failure is caused by the XNA Game Studio 4.0 component, you’ll need to gather those logs separately by zipping up all of the logs in the folder named %temp%\XNA Game Studio 4.0 Setup\Logs.

Once you have gathered your setup log files, you can upload them to a file server of your choice (such as https://skydrive.live.com), and post a link to the log files in the forums to get additional support.

If you run into uninstallation issues with the WPDT CTP, CTP Refresh or Beta, you can use the cleanup tool described at https://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/9544320.aspx to remove XNA Game Studio or the Windows Phone Developer Tools.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    While running 'vm_web.exe' for Windows Phone Tools Beta, I got "Incompatible Products with Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh" message. July 12th version of 'cleanup_tool' succeeds with message 'Product cleanup succeded!' but does not even remove it from list of 'Add Remove Programs'. 'Windows Installer Clean Up' (does not list at all) and manual registry cleaning for 'Windows Phone' with restart does not help either. Can you, please, point the files or registry entries, that Beta version installer uses to detect the presence of CTP Refresh version?

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    It gave me more information, but unfortunately didn't help. Here is the file. cid-c8e0d8029fa2e80a.office.live.com/.../dd%5E_install%5E_vm%5E_xcor%5E_100.txt Uninstall also failed on my win7 home machine. The same symptoms.

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    The issue was solved by deleting registry key HKLM,SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{8D6C687E-56A5-3563-86F7-ECF3B4FD3C0F} which corresponds to [Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh]. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    Hi Evgheniy - I'm glad you were able to figure out the cause of this problem and resolve it so you could install the WPDT beta.  I'm sorry for the hassles that this problem caused in the meantime though.  For others reading these comments in the future, I posted more detailed instructions for diagnosing and working around this type of issue in the blog post at blogs.msdn.com/.../10037442.aspx.

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2010
    Will this be compatible with windows XP at some point and if not then at the very least will the XNA framework 4 redist be compatible?

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2010
    Hi Ross - There hasn't been an announcement about the OS support for the final release of XNA Game Studio 4.0 or the XNA Framework 4.0 Redistributable yet.  Please keep an eye on the Creators Club web site (http://creators.xna.com) and the XNA team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/xna) for this type of announcement in the future.

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2010
    Hi Cakes - Can you please gather your XNA Game Studio 4.0 log files from %temp%XNA Game Studio 4.0 SetupLogs, zip them, post them to a file server such as http://skydrive.live.com and then reply back here with a link to your logs so I can take a look and see if I can figure out what is causing this error? If you don't have any logs there, can you please try to run XNA Game Studio 4.0 beta setup directly from go.microsoft.com/fwlink and see if it gives a more useful error code when it is run in full UI mode (instead of in silent mode like when it is run as a part of WPDT Beta setup)?

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2010
    I have similar issue and I have uploaded my logs athe following location. cid-a7680953f5fdc114.office-df.live.com/.../Logs.zip

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2010
    Hi Arul - I am having trouble getting your link to work.  Each time I click on it, I get re-directed to http://home.live.com.  Can you please double-check the link and/or post the logs to a different file server that I could try instead?

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2010
    Hi Kibria - This is the error I see in your log file: [08/24/10,15:35:38] Microsoft Windows Phone Emulator x64: File failed validation: i:.wcuwindowsphonesde_xde64-enu.msi; error = 0x80091007 Usually, this means that there was something wrong with the download of the installer.  I'd suggest trying to download and run the installer again, or to use the ISO image available in the 3rd download button at www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx instead of using the web downloader.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2010
    Hi Silva - I will need to look at your log files to narrow down the exact cause of this setup failure.  Can you please zip up all of the XNA Game Studio 4.0 setup log files from %temp%XNA Game Studio 4.0 SetupLogs, post the zip file to a file server (such as http://skydrive.live.com), then reply back here with a link that I can use to download the log files and take a further look?

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2011
    Hi Robert - Your log snippet shows that Blend setup is failing, but the error code listed there doesn't help explain why it is failing.  Can you please zip the file named %temp%dd_Blend_Install.txt, upload the .zip file to a file server (such as http://skydrive.live.com), and reply back here with a link I can use to download your Blend setup log file and take a further look?

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2011
    I got the same error as Robert (even the same return code) and I put my dd_Blend_Install.txt file at cid-44917394df129d32.office.live.com/.../Public.

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2011
    That worked. I went to the page and it recommended uninstalling everything through the control panel first, so I did. After reboot though, it still asked about updating Silverlight, so I ran the cleanup. Then vm_web.exe installed without a hitch. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2011
    Hi Himanshu Rathore - I'm sorry for the hassles that this issue is causing for you.  I am getting a file not found error when I try to access your dd_install_vm_xcor2_100.txt file though.  Can you please use the log collection tool described at blogs.msdn.com/.../6458047.aspx to collect all of your setup log files, upload the file named %temp%vslogs.cab that this tool will create to your file server, then reply back here and post a link that I can use to download that .cab file and take a closer look?

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2011
    Hello Aaron Stebner Sir,       A warm good morning to you. Thanks for giving up help and support. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to install the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 on my machine. Currently the following tools are installed on my machine,

  1. Windows Ultimate 7 Sp1.
  2. Visual Studio Professional 2010 With Sp1.
  3. Expression Studio Ultimate 2010.
  4. XNA game Studio 4.0. I suppose Problems happens to be with the Failed validation of WPSDK_en.cab file located at i:.wcuwindowsphoneWPSDK_en.cab I have attached the vslogs.zip installation log file made through Log Collection Tool located at skydrive, so that you can find out the problem. It contains,
  5. vslogs.cab
  6. dd_install_vm_xcor2_100.txt Link to the skydrive. skydrive.live.com Waiting to hear from you and by the way Thanks again for your great support sir. -- Best Regards, Himanshu Rathore.
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2011
    Hi Himanshu Rathore - I took a look at your log files, and it looks like you're right.  This is the exact error that is causing setup to fail on your computer: [10/10/11,11:53:27] Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies: ERRORLOG EVENT : CMsiComponent::Install() expects the setup file for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies, but the file failed verification. This type of error usually means that the downloaded setup package got corrupted somehow.  I'd suggest trying to download the ISO file for the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 from download.microsoft.com/.../WPSDKv71_en1.iso and install from there to see if that helps resolve this error.