Is there a way to set Windows Phone 7 Emulator some settings before started? As Theme, region, language

I need when the emulator starts to start with different locale and also in light theme which开发者_运维百科 is not the default. Is there any way to do this in some settings file or something like that?

Searched over the net but nothing found

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General settings for the Windows Phone emulator are stored in XDE-based board configuration files (*.decfg) that can be specified as parameters when you launch an XDE instance. Those files are located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\1.0 (for 64-bit systems)

C:\Program Files\Microsoft XDE\1.0 (for 32-bit systems)

You will see that there is config_board0.decfg and config_board1.decfg - both are nothing more than XML files with a different extension. There, you can configure:

Whether to show the debug console or not (in case you don't want to dig through the registry)

• Zoom factor
• RAM Size
• Displacement
• GPU Configuration (e.g. FPS throttling)
• Orientation

The language is specified by the /language parameter that is passed to the emulator. The LangID is, in fact, the LocaleID (LCID) - you can get a full list here. Decimal values from that table should be used.

If the LCID you passed is not registered on the device, it will default to English - United States (en-US - 1033).

A simple launch string could look like this (with parameters):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\1.0\XDE.exe" /decfg D:\Tempor ary\config_board1.decfg /vmid {6db75612-361e-4c8f-8aaa-307a312c39c6} /binfile "C :\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Emulation\Images\WM70C1. en-US.bin" /language 1031

Where 1031 (for the language) represents German.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The language passed to XDE is emulator-specific and has nothing to do with the OS. The only supported language right now is English - US (1033).

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You cannot set phone theme and locale programmatically but you can just open your Windows Phone 7 emulator and go to Settings and from there set the light theme as you wished for and also set it to different locale.

I would always recommend developers to keep their physical phone and emulator on different themes and possibly in different locales. Then you constantly test your app against different configurations.