I have to developed applications through Visual studio which will run on windows mobile, windows Tablet as well as windows computer(desktop computer and laptop). I am planning to develop hybrid applications using HTML5/JavaScript/jQuery.
Please suggest, What type of software will required for developing this type of application.
Is there a place where I can get information on the different frameworks and how hybrid architecture should be used?
I recommend you:
Multi-Device Hybrid App extension for Visual Studio.
or
Intel XDK
Also Telerik AppBuilder which is an online (paid) tool
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I need to create a new application for Iphone with Xamarin? Forms
Is it possible to do this without any windows system?
I know this sounds bizare but that is the requirment.
Yes, this is possible. You can develop Android and iOS apps with Visual Studio for Mac. Of course you won't be able to develop UWP apps.
With Visual Studio for Mac you can build websites with ASP.NET Core and apps using .NET Core, games with Unity, and mobile apps for Android and iOS using Xamarin. (emphasis mine, see here)
As far as xamarin is concerned, you can do just as much with the Mac version as with Windows. You just can not develop a Windows Phone app on the Mac.
For windows mobile development , which is the best IDE to be used?What are the pre-requisites for windows mobile development?
For Windows App development, Visual Studio is definitely the software to consider. It packs many useful features and there is a lot of support available that comes with it. It is also free.
If you would like to develop for iOS, check out Xamarin for Visual Studio.
I developed an hybrid app for Windows Phone with MobileFirst v7.1 but I don't know what is the procedure to compile the app to be installed on smartphone. I only know that Visual Studio is necessary, but searching in the web I didn't found any specific guide or documentation for achieve this task.
You build your app in MobileFirst Studio as you build any other MobileFirst-based app
This generates a native project, in this case for Visual Studio.
You then need to open this project in Visual Studio, and from there on you follow standard Visual Studio guidelines (for this, search Microsoft's website for Windows Phone developers).
There is no Coded UI project in Visual Studio 2015 for UWP and I can't find any documentation anywhere saying there is a plan to bring support.
Does anyone know if there is planned support it or have some alternative UI testing framework to work with Windows Universal?
I guess you can use this Coded UI Test Project (Universal Windows) which is under
File->New->Project->Templates->Windows->Universal-->Coded UI Test Project (Universal Windows)
for Coded UI project in Visual Studio 2015 for UWP.
Maybe an important information for other to come is. That it’s not possible to create such projects in the community version of visual studio. You need at least the enterprise version as mentioned here.
An update for anyone arriving at this question is that Microsoft are deprecating support for Coded UI testing after the Visual Studio 2019 release...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/use-ui-automation-to-test-your-code?view=vs-2017
Coded UI Test for automated UI-driven functional testing is deprecated. Visual Studio 2019 is the last version where Coded UI Test will be available. We recommend using Selenium for testing web apps and Appium with WinAppDriver for testing desktop and UWP apps.
So, the suggested answer by Microsoft for automating UWP UI testing is to adopt Appium with WinAppDriver.
Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 have in my opinion an amazing GUI. Are they built with some Microsoft library which is publicly accessible and usable; if so which one?
There is none. It's a custom Win32 C++ application with a ton of code.
The closest you can get without inventing your own controls is to create a Win32 application that uses the Windows Ribbon Framework. This is only officially accessible through plain Win32. The MFC and WPF versions are non-native look alikes. There is a .NET Windows Forms wrapper for the native Win32 Ribbon.
If you are after a library to duplicate the ribbon functionality in your own application you could consider using WPF and use the Fluent Ribbon Control Suite. This is almost identical to the ribbon found in Office 2010 in my opinion.