I've recently installed the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK and when developing a new Windows Phone HTML App, I can see a few emulators listed which when run, open up the emulator fine:
Emulator WVGA 512 MB Emulator WVGA Emulator XVGA Emulator 720P
To test for functionality on a different handset (Nokia Lumia 710), it looked like I needed to install the Windows Phone SDK update for Windows phone 7.8 which "Adds the ability to start a Windows Phone 7.8 emulator in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012.". I was expecting to see the new 7.8 emulators added to the list, but they are not being displayed.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Am I missing a further step?
Thanks.
You only can see Windows Phone 7.8 emulators if your project is for Windows Phone 7.5
If your project has been updated or created for 8, you won't see them.