I am preparing for a demo next week and walking a partner through a bunch of different options to show the prospect CRM on a Mobile Device. The problem is we will be doing a LiveMeeting, so showing the demo on a live client isn’t going to work.
So enter Windows Phone 7. We have a great emulator for the device. If you want to get it, you can download it from here.
It includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, which is overkill for what we need, but it is included in our download.
Once we get the emulator downloaded and installed. (It will take a few minutes and may involve a reboot.) the following steps are all that is required:
Browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\1.0.
Hold right shift key and then click on right mouse button.
Now click on “open command windows here” option from the menu.
Type this in the command window. (Or Copy if you are lazy like I am.)
xde.exe “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhone\v7.0\Emulation\Images\WM70C1.bin”
You now will have the complete emulator up. Now just browse to your favorite mobile CRM site and you now have CRM running on your Windows Phone 7 Emulator.
The Main Screen
Selecting from the list of available views.
Adding a new account:
An extra Kudo to the first person to tell me what car is in the background of photo #3.
Happy Demo’ing!