How to: Register Your Phone for Development
March 22, 2012
It is important to test your Windows Phone applications on a physical device. Before you can deploy an application to a Windows Phone, you must first register the phone, which requires an active developer account on App Hub. Each developer account enables the registration of three devices for application development. For more information about how to create a developer account, see App Hub Registration Walkthrough. After you create a developer account and your phone is registered, you can install, run, and debug unsigned applications on the phone.
To register your Windows Phone, you use the Windows Phone Developer Registration tool. This tool is installed automatically when you install the Windows Phone SDK. For more information, see Installing the Windows Phone SDK.
This topic describes how to use the Windows Phone Developer Registration tool.
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If you have previously registered your phone for Windows Phone OS 7.0 and you later install Windows Phone OS 7.1 and the Windows Phone SDK 7.1, you will need to reregister your phone as a Windows Phone OS 7.1 device. To reregister your phone, follow the steps in this topic. |
To complete this procedure, you must have the following:
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A Windows Live ID.
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A valid and current App Hub developer account.
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The Zune client software must be installed on the host computer. You can download and install the Zune client software from here.
To register your phone
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Turn on your phone and if necessary unlock the phone screen.
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On your phone, ensure that the date and time are correct.
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Using the USB cable that came with your phone, connect your phone to your computer.
On your computer, the Zune software starts automatically. If Zune does not start, then start it manually.
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On your computer, click Start, click All Programs, and then click Windows Phone SDK 7.1.
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Click Windows Phone Developer Registration.
The application starts, as shown in the following image. Verify that the Status message displays Phone ready. Please enter your Windows Live ID and password and click "Register" to begin.
If your phone is already registered, the Status message will indicate this and you will see an Unregister button.
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Enter the Windows Live ID and password that correspond to your App Hub membership.
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Click Register.
After your phone is successfully registered, the Status message will display Your phone has successfully been registered. You can now deploy applications to the Windows Phone. If you ever need to, you can also unregister the device by clicking Unregister in the tool.
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If you deploy an application on a registered phone, and then unregister the phone, the application will no longer run because the application license is no longer valid. |
For troubleshooting information, see Troubleshooting Windows Phone SDK.
