Find out if you are using the Windows Phone Emulator

It is often useful in a Windows Phone program for the code to know whether or not it is running on a real device.  It is actually easy to do this:

1. Add Microsoft.Phone to the references to your project if it is not already there.
2. Put the following line at the top of your program.
   using Microsoft.Devices;
3. You can now write code like this:
   if (Microsoft.Devices.Environment.DeviceType ==
                                                                              DeviceType.Device)
   {
       // we are running on the real phone
   }

You can use DeviceType.Emulator in the test to see if you are running on the emulator.