no access to windows phone 7 marketplace

Question

My country has no access to the WP7 MarketPlace but i want to know if i can still at least develop apps for my own WP7 Device or at least directly install it on other devices that i have access to..

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is a response I have seen on other forums that appears useful; Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone - http://www.microsoft.com/express/Phone/

As for installing on other devices, I'm not sure how that would work. I believe the way Windows7 works is different to the typically CAB file installation on Windows6 (Mobile) downward

Answer 2

You can still develop applications for the countries that do have a WP7 MarketPlace and you can add your applications to an unlocked device without needing access to the MarketPlace by using the Application Deployment tool, which is part of the Windows Phone7 Development Tools. In order to unlock your phone, you will need to create an account on the App Hub and register as a developer.

Answer 3

My country (the Netherlands) also has no marketplace yet. If you buy a WP7 developer license you can still unlock your phone and use it to develop applications regardsless. You can even publish your app on the marketplace for alll countries that have it. But you couldn't download it from that marketplace yourself... (A developer licese allows you to unlock up to three phones regardless of the liveID used on them, I have currently unlocked two of my collegues as well and I can use the webinterface to revoke this without needing their phone)

What you can also do is create a seperate live_id with a country that does have a marketplace and use that as the root liveID for your phone. In that case you could download your own app providing it is either free or you can somehow pay in that country (ie prepaid us creditcard). Unfortunately because it has to be the primary ID you will have to reset your phone and you will still need a Wp7 dev account.

I went through all these hoops myself

Answer 4

i found a site called www.yallaapps.com that can take care of those of us without access to the marketplace.

Answer 5

You should check the Windows Phone Developer Blog. There have been some changes regarding this issue. This blog post from ms team offer an alternative for publishing apps via Global Publisher Program.