title: Windows Phone Emulator accessing a server behind VPN
body: <p>I am working on a Windows Phone app where the server I need to communicate with is only accessible if I connect to a VPN using OpenVPN. The VPN works fine, I can access the server using say a browser on my computer.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, that Windows Phone Emulator does not "see" the network I am connected to using VPN. </p>
  
  <p>In the old Windows Phone 7, when disabled wifi and data on a device and connected it to a computer using a USB cable, the device used the computer to connect to the internet. But this no longer works with Windows Phone 8 (8.1) devices. The Windows Phone 8.1 build-in VPN is too primitive and does not work with the VPN I need to use.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can develop and app that needs to connect to a server only accessible through VPN. </p>