Unable to see Windows Phone 7.8 Emulators in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I've recently installed the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK and when developing a new Windows Phone HTML App, I can see a few emulators listed which when run, open up the emulator fine:

Emulator WVGA 512 MB Emulator WVGA Emulator XVGA Emulator 720P

To test for functionality on a different handset (Nokia Lumia 710), it looked like I needed to install the Windows Phone SDK update for Windows phone 7.8 which "Adds the ability to start a Windows Phone 7.8 emulator in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012.". I was expecting to see the new 7.8 emulators added to the list, but they are not being displayed.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Am I missing a further step?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You only can see Windows Phone 7.8 emulators if your project is for Windows Phone 7.5

If your project has been updated or created for 8, you won't see them.