Simulate Popular Mobile Devices for Testing
| Device or Browser | Emulator / Simulator |
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Windows Phone 7 |
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW This includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. It also integrates with Visual Studio 2010 if you already have it installed. |
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Windows Mobile 6.5.3 |
Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Developer Tool Kit Note that to give the phone network access, you also need the VPC Network Adaptor included in Virtual PC 2007 . To connect IE on the phone to your Visual Studio development server, see Kiran Patil's blog post . |
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Windows Mobile 6.1 |
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Android |
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Opera Mobile / Opera Mini |
Latest versions: Opera Developer Tools home Opera Mini 4.2: Online Java-based simulator |
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iPhone / iPod / iPad |
iBBDemo2 iPad / iPhone Simulator There's no true iOS emulator for Windows. iBBDemo2 is an unofficial 3rd-party utility that simulates Mobile Safari's screen dimensions and user agent string. |
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Mozilla Fennec |
Follow the link under the heading Download Firefox for mobile to your desktop computer. |
Note that if you want to view your application on a real mobile device (which is the only option for fully testing iPhone or iPad, since there's no true emulator for Windows) you'll need to host your application in IIS or IIS Express. You can't easily use Visual Studio's built-in web server for this, because it won't respond to requests from other machines.