[Windows Phone 7.5] Run multiple instances of the emulator

source: microsofttranslator.com

Today I bring you a little trick that can be very useful. It's being able to run multiple instances of the emulator for Windows Phone on the same PC.

This will tremendously help us if we are developing applications that interact between users, and may have 2 or 3 emulators in your PC with the launched application or if you want to take a long test of an application while working in another.

As we get it? The first thing we have to do is go to the Inbox AddOns from the Phone Tools we can find in the following path:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Phone Tools\CoreCon\10.0\addons

Once there we will find a file called ImageConfig.en-US.xsl.If edit you with a text editor will see that you it's an XML with the data for the implementation of the emulator. Within this XML have to change three properties: the name of the emulator, the GUID for the emulator and the VMID GUID.

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