Getting an app on your phone w/o marketplace approval

Question

Hi guys, I spent a good amount of time developing an app that is essentially a drinking game. Despite the fact that there do exist many drinking game apps on WP, apparently mine is an issue. I'd like to get the app on my phone however, as it's pretty cool and I guess that's some solice for my wasted time. Does anybody know of any way to do this?

Answer 1

You can always unlock your device and deploy the app to your phone.

Unlock the device:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/publicsector/archive/2011/01/04/unlock-your-windows-phone-7-for-development.aspx

Deploy XAP to phone:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff769512%28v=VS.92%29.aspx

Or you can do it from Visual Studio by changing the deployment device in the drop down from emulator to Phone and also under the Build menu select Configuration Manager, and and under Active Solution Configuration, select Release.  Then build and deploy as normal.

Good luck!
Rob

Answer 2

awesome thanks man