I have found many people suffering from an internet connectivity issue for the Windows Phone emulator 8, they are unable to connect to the internet with their emulator.
Here are some steps that I propose as a solution:
- Go to the Hyper-V manager and delete the emulator along with all of the virtual switches.
- Start the emulator from Visual Studio; this will recreate it with all the default settings (select yes if you want to configure it to connect to the internet).
- Shut it down.
- Now, return to the Hyper-V manager.
- Delete the snapshot that was just created for the emulator. This will prevent your changes from disappearing.
- Find the virtual switch for your second network adapter in the Network Adapter settings(under Control Panel).
- Disable TCP/IPv4 and 6. This prevents your host machine from trying to use the connection. While you're there, get the MAC (Physical) address of this adapter.
- Find the virtual-switch for your second network adapter under the Hyper-V settings for the emulator.
- Change the MAC type to static and paste in the MAC address of the adapter.
- Enable MAC spoofing (Optional).
- Run the emulator via Visual studio.