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Windows Phone 8 development shortcut keys with keyboard

Introduction

The Windows Phone 8  SDK comes with some shortcut keys for emulator .It would be very helpful for us to speedup our development process.1.WindowsPhone Emulator Screen unlock

    1.1. To lock the screen in the emulator by using the keyboard
  •     With the emulator open, press F12 on your computer keyboard twice.
    The F12 key emulates the power button on the phone. The first key press turns off the display. The second key press turns the display on again with the lock screen engaged.
    You can unlock the screen by using the mouse to slide the lock screen upward.
     1.2. To lock the screen in the emulator by using the Simulation Dashboard
         We can also lock/unlock the emulator from visual studio 2012 by following steps
          Open visual studio 2012=>Tools=>Simulation Dashboard.
         Now you will find following dialog box
Simulation dashboard option for locking the screen       
 Fig:Simulation Dashboard                Fig:Windows phone Emulator screen unlock

To simulate a reminder

  1. Run your app on the emulator or a connected device, with or without debugging.
    Or, run your app with app monitoring and profiling to measure its quality and performance. For more information about app monitoring and profiling, see Windows Phone Application Analysis.
  2. In Visual Studio, on the Tools menu, open Simulation Dashboard. Find the Reminders section of the dashboard.
  3. To trigger a reminder immediately, click the Trigger reminder button.
  4. Test how your app handles the interruption.
 2.Enable or disable the windows phone emulator NetWork connections from visual studio 2012
To enable/disable the emulator newtwork connections open vas2012=>Tools=>Simulation Dashboard  

Fig:Enable/disable emulator networking



3. Capture screen shot from windows phone 8 emulator
 3.1. Using the Windows Snipping Tool to capture the emulator window
You can create your app screenshot easily by using the Snipping Tool feature of Windows®. For more information about this tool, see Snipping Tool.Or you find the snipping tool from windows search.
SnippingTool

You can create screenshots of your Windows Phone apps by using the built-in emulator screenshot tool. The tool creates PNG files that match the resolution of the running emulator.
The emulator screenshot tool
For more info you may visit Microsoft reference

4.Keyboard Shortcut keys for windows phone 8 emulator



The following table lists the keys on a hardware keyboard that you can use to emulate the buttons and other controls on a Windows Phone device.
Computer hardware key
Windows Phone hardware button
Notes
F1
BACK
Long presses work as expected.
F2
START
Long presses work as expected.
F3
SEARCH
F4
Not applicable.
F5
Not applicable.
F6
CAMERA HALF
A dedicated camera button that is pressed halfway.
F7
CAMERA FULL
A dedicated camera button.
F8
Not applicable.
F9
VOLUME UP
F10
VOLUME DOWN
F11
Not applicable.



ESC
BACK
Long presses work as expected.
PAUSE/BREAK
Toggle Keyboard
Toggles the hardware keyboard.
PAGE UP
Keyboard Up
Enables the hardware keyboard.
PAGE DOWN
Keyboard Down
Disables the hardware keyboard.

Windows Phone tutorials for beginners key points

This section is included for only windows phone beginners.However this article can covers following questions.Off course these key words are more helpful for getting more best results about this topic in search engines like google/bing/yahoo.. 

1.How to use the computer keyboard with windows phone 8 emulator 

2.keybord shortcuts in windows phone 8 emulator 

3.Shortcuts keys for Developing on Windows Phone 8 Emulator 

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