Is there a way to create a windows phone 8 app in windows 7 and visual studio 2012

Question

Is there a way to create and test an app (emulator for windows phone 8) in visual studio 2012 and windows 7? I got all the proper SDKs etc from Dreamspark but I cannot seem to find a way to do it in windows 7. It's only "doable" in windows 8?

Answer 1

probably not, Microsoft only released it for Windows 8, but you can always have a virtual machine and Dreamspark also has licenses for Windows, so you won't have any issues with that neither.