Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone Emulator Resources
• Silverlight 4 Tools For Visual Studio
• XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to January 2019.

Files
Release Notes - WPDT RTM.htm SHA1: e8b55dea6859a6a341adb533c645c2427b01bd7b Size: 16 KB
vm_web.exe SHA1: d3d74dadb5cda2fece5f93aefd5c5262ccc775b3 Size: 3.18 MB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition


• Installation requires 3 GB of free disk space on the system drive.
• 2 GB RAM
• Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver

Click on the vm_web.exe from the Files in the download section below. This will start the installation of Windows Phone Developer Tools and install the necessary components on your machine.
Please review the Release Notes for additional details before running setup.
Note: There are known issues during the uninstallation of the CTP version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Please read this blog article for more information and steps to resolution.
Note: this release is also available in .iso format.
Choose one of the following options for handling downloaded ISO images:

• (Recommended) Write the image file to a blank DVD.
• (Alternative) Mount the image file virtually as DVD devices.

For more information about these options, see "What are ISO image files and how do I use them?" on the FAQ page.