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I am following instructions in the book "Windows Phone 7 Game Development" (Adam Dawes) as part of my university course. I am mentioning the name of the book in case this is important to anyone. Anyway, I am following the instruction for "Your First XNA Project" in chapter two, but every time that I try to run the project with or without debugging I am presented with the error "No target is available for deploying". I have been unable to find a solution besides deleting the "Phone Tools" folder in "AppData/Local/Microsoft", but that didn't help. Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Just so you know, it doesn't matter if I try to run the default project or if I add more code to it as it says in the book: I always get the same error. Also, I am using Windows 8 and chose the option "Windows Phone OS 7.1" when creating the project if that's of any interest.

robwirving
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It sounds to me that you are selecting the option to "deploy your game to a device" instead of using the emulator.

Be careful when chosing the start method, as shown on the picture.

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You can find a guide on how to deploy and debug your windows phone games on this link.

Keep in mind that you may be missing the emulators on your PC, depending on what SDK/complement you installed. If this is the case, you can find all the necessary tools here.

Nahuel Ianni
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