I recently needed to do some Windows Phone 7 XNA developing on Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 Professional. I already had WP 7/7.1/8 SDK installed + updated XNA extension from here ( https://msxna.codeplex.com/releases ).
However, I found out that on VS 2012 deploying to device is not supported and Windows and Xbox projects do not work. So I decided to create a small patch that makes possible to create and deploy WP7 and Xbox projects in Visual Studio 2012.
Installation:
- Install Visual Studio 2012
- Install Windows Phone SDK 7 and 7.1
- Install Windows Phone SDK 8
- Download and unpack patch ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/b4k1lkjrdfoqh4n/XNA%20Extension%20Patch.zip?dl=1 )
- Copy the patch content to “VS Installation Directory\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft”
- Run “devenv /setup”