The Windows Phone 8.0 SDK is out, and while most sink their teeth into its cavalcade of new features, a few may encounter a small road bump when moving to the RTW version; as I did.
After moving from a pre-release version of the Windows Phone 8 SDK to the RTW, I found that I was unable to launch the Windows Phone emulator because of a networking issue. The emulator would pop up the following error message at the beginning of a debugging session:
The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to connect to the Windows Phone operating system: The emulator couldn’t determine the host IP address, which is used to communicate with the guest virtual machine. Some functionality may be disabled.
This turned out to be a hair pulling exercise. The cause was related to the Hyper-v virtual switch configuration.
I resolved the issue by performing the following steps:
- Uninstall the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK.
- Uninstall and reinstall the virtual switches using:
C:> netcfg -u vms_pp
C:> netcfg -c p -i vms_pp - Reboot
- Reinstall the SDK.
If you encounter the same issue, here’s hoping this post sorts you out.