Windows Phone Emulator Explained

If you are a Windows phone user, you will be definitely interested in viewing or accessing your Windows Phone apps on your PC or laptop. Now, it is possible with the Windows Phone Emulator!

You can use the Windows Phone Emulator for viewing and executing Windows Phone apps. This is an extremely useful platform for Windows Phone app developers, as they will be able to debug and execute their apps before placing it in the marketplace. The Windows Phone Emulator is actually a high fidelity, efficient and high performance virtualization environment for executing Windows phone applications. You will hardly feel the difference as it acts just like a phone.

When using this application on your PC, a screen appears with a phone on it. Of course, quite logically, you will not be able to make a call through it, but will be able to use the buttons using your mouse and simulate your app. Your will work similar to the way it actually functions on your Windows Phone.

In order to open or launch the Emulator, you need to press the F5 button. The Emulator will load the program you currently have kept open in Visual Studio.

It gives the same feel as using your phone. It has the same buttons as on the phone (only virtual). You will be able to see a Start button, Search button, and a Back button. However, you need to note that it is not possible to pan or zoom on your PC, unless you are using a modern multi touch system.

Apart from all these features, Windows Phone Emulator also provides GPS simulation. One of the best features about the program is the fact that it allows you to see how a website appears on Windows Phone.

Let us see how to install and use the Windows Phone Emulator

Steps to follow

• First, launch the website that you wish to view.
• Then, in the Run drop-down menu, choose Windows Phone. In case, you do not have the Windows Phone Emulator extension installed, you can follow the instructions in the install wizard to download and install the program.
• When the installation finishes, return to the Run menu drop-down and then select the Windows Phone option. This will automatically launch your site in the Windows Phone emulator.
• If you wish to launch the Windows Phone Emulator every time you view the app, you just have to click on Run (no need to go via drop-down menu).

Hope these Windows tech support instructions helped you install and use Windows Phone Emulator. If the above instructions do not suffice, you can anyway contact our Windows tech support team for further clarifications.

Microsoft Introduces Home Use Program

Microsoft’s Office applications are universal. You can use them at home, at the office and on the go. However, at times, it may happen that you have a different version of Microsoft Office at home rather than what you use in the office. Consequently, you will have trouble while processing some of your office related documents at home. Usually, you will have access to the latest version of MS Office in the office but an older version on your home PC. Microsoft has rolled out an impressive solution to remove this incompatibility issue between your MS Office suite installed on your home PC and office PC. The solution is called Home Use Program (HUP).

What is Home Use Program (HUP)?

Microsoft’s Home Use Program allows employees of an organization to install the same version of MS Office, which is installed on the Office PC, on the home PC. This way, users will be able to get rid of the issue with synchronising the Office apps between Home PC and Office PC.

How to get Home Use Program (HUP)?

You will be charged $9.95 to be able to download the Home Use Program. However, the amount is negligible in terms of the services you can avail. According to Microsoft experts, Home Use Program enables a user to have full use and access to all the applications included in the MS Office suite version in your office. If you have to install an independent version of Microsoft Office on your home computer, you will have to pay the full amount, which can be too high for average users.

Downloading Home Use Program         

  

You can download Home Use Program from Microsoft’s Volume Licensing Service Centre (VLSC). The program should be activated by the one who handles the company licensing of the Office suite. He has to sign into his account and then activate the program. A program code will be generated and sent to the company licensing holder. Gather the code and use it to activate the Home Use Program after its installation on the home PC. Home Use Program is a business program. So its availability is restricted to business users. As of now, there are no such schemes for general customers.

You will be able to enjoy HUP license as long you remain an employee of the organization. Upon your retirement from the company, your employer would deactivate your license.