Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Windows 7 Mobile dev

I am interested in starting Windows 7 Mobile dev and have searched the net for tutorials. Each says I should install Visual Studio 2010 Express For Phone to accomplish the task. I have VS 2010 Premium but can't find the templates and the tutorials they speak of in it.

I find it redundant to have two versions of VS installed so I guess my question is can I develop for the Windows 7 Mobile开发者_如何学JAVA platform directly from VS 2010 Premium? Am I missing some sort of service pack that will install the templates or do I have to install Express For Phone in parallel with Premium to accomplish this? Can this even be done?

The web installer of the package should already detect the presence of VS2010 and just install the add ins necessary for WP7 development.

I think you want this link:

Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools

and then choose for C# or Visual Basic which package to install.

I had the same problem and I solved it by changing the language of visual studio. Visual studio needs to have the same language of the windows phone SDK.

For more convenience and ease of developing, i suggest, you may want to switch over to Visual Studio 2012. You can get it from Here.

As you're wanting to develop for Win 7 Phone.
VS2012 has very useful templates already installed.And it makes app development very convenient.