Registering Your WP7 as a Developer Device

As I had found out at the WP7 Workshop in Birmingham, I needed to register phone as a developer device, before I can run the project application onto the device in real time, and not on the emulator, as I had seen when connecting the device to Zune, running Visual Studio 2010 and press the Run button as “Windows 7 device”, the message was shown up as follows: -

To register the phone as a developer device, you needed to have downloaded the development tools for WP7 already, then once installed, you click the folder Windows Phone Developer Tools on the start menu, and click Windows Phone Developer Registration, with your phone plugged into the USB and connected to Zune already. You should see the following window: -

From there fill in your Windows Live details, and you are registered as a developer. Hopefully I should write more blogs like this in Windows Phone Developer as I learn more about the environment, and it would be my last post before the office move. Hope that helps!