Tuesday, January 17, 2012

How to Enable Local Keyboard for Windows Phone Emulator

Is it possible to use the local physical keyboard of your development machine when using the Windows Phone emulator?

Yes it is possible and is activated by using a shortcut:

To enable the keyboard in the emulator press the PAGE UP key or press the PAUSE/BREAK key.
To disable the keyboard in the emulator press the PAGE DOWN key or press the PAUSE/BREAK key.

Furthermore you there are a lot of different key mappings between your development machine keyboard and the phone functions. You can check the whole list in the Windows Phone Emulator MSDN documentation.

Cheers!

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3 comments:

  1. Josh M.November 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM

    Thank you.

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  2. Nic DobreJanuary 29, 2013 at 7:32 PM

    God BLESS YOU! I spent half day trying to figure out how I lost keyboard support in emulator (probably an accidental PAGE DOWN). Thanks to your article everything works fine now. Thank you!

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