Creating Windows Phone apps on a Netbook

It does work, although you might want to attach a larger monitor...

I was wondering if it is possible to run Visual Studio 2010 and create Windows Phone applications on a very small machine, say a tiny MSI Wind netbook with a lowly Atom processor. Turns out that it is, and it is just about useable (as long as you take the precaution of upgrading the memory to 2G).

You can run Silverlight applications on the windows phone emulator but for XNA you need to find a machine with a bit more graphical grunt, since the graphical power in the phone is actually greater than the netbook, which therefore can’t properly emulate it.

Comments

[PHenry]

I tried this on my little netbook and unfortunately it didn't work with any of the "refershes". But you specifically stated 2MB, maybe that's what happened to me (my netbook only has 1MB).

http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/304/Default.aspx

[Rob]

I think without the extra memory it would really suffer and it does chug a bit, but I'm just amazed it works at all.

[Jack]

Guess i'll be upgrading my MSI Wind clone.
Thanks for the tip.