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Detecting the Emulator in Windows Phone 7 SDK (WP7)

Today I had to write some code that would detect the Emulator we use to test WP7 Silverlight applications. For some reason though I had a really hard time finding the answer. Therefore I decided to post the solution here and to link the thread I finally did find which helped me find figure it out, which is this thread here. Solution: string DeviceTypeDetected = string.Empty; switch (Microsoft.Devices.Environment.DeviceType) { case Microsoft.Devices.DeviceType.Device: DeviceTypeDetected = "Real Device Detected!"; break; case Microsoft.Devices.DeviceType.Emulator: ...