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Emulate HVGA Screens in the Windows Phone 7 CTP

As you probably already know Windows Phone 7 only supports two screens resolutions: WVGA at launch and HVGA later on. Unfortunately those who want to start…

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As you probably already know Windows Phone 7 only supports two screens resolutions: WVGA at launch and HVGA later on. Unfortunately those who want to start developing HVGA applications may be disappointed by the lack of support in the current WP7 CTP dev tools. Thankfully Microsoft’s Peter Torr has posted a small tutorial on how to emulate HVGA in the current build:

We don’t have tooling to support the HVGA screen size yet, but rest assured it will be provided before devices hit the market! In the mean time, if you want to experiment with HVGA there is a pretty easy way to do it – just re-template the frame!

Head over here to check out the code.

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