I'm using Windows 7 32x. It seems I'm not able to create an app package in Visual Studio 2013 Professional, the "Store" option doesn't appear. I've read somewhere that we couldn't package on Win7, is there any way around? I'd like to upload my app to Windows Store, thanks.
You won't be able to do that. On Windows Store development center web site it's stated quite explicitly:
To create an app, you must use Visual Studio 2013 on a computer running Windows 8.1.
You can't create an app by using Windows 7. In addition, developer licenses aren't available for Windows Server 2012, so you can't develop a Windows Store app on that operating system.
More on the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/windows/apps/br211384.aspx
Check the section "Important"
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I have got Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate Preview installation through my students Dreamspark account. I installed it on top of updated Windows 8.1. workstation.
I have Windows Phone 8.0 application that I need to publish to Windows Phone Store. I am following MS guide on their site, but I am stuck with step in which my options for packaging solution are disabled in VS 2015 Preview (can't start the wizard).
Here is the screenshot of Visual Studio:
On this site: http://goo.gl/pjbLPh I have found guide for installing Tools for Maintaining Store apps for Windows 8 but it is targeting VS 2012 and VS 2013. In my installer for VS 2015 I didn't even see this tool in optional features for install. Maybe the name is changed?
Does anyone have early experiences with VS 2015 Preview and packaging WP 8 apps for Windows Phone Store?
You have to select a Windows Store app project in the solution explorer before.
(You screenshot shows that you currently selected the solution and not a project.)
Make sure that the distribution option is selected.
I want to dive in into developing windows store apps. I am using visual studio express 2013 for desktop and my OS is windows 8.1. But when I want to follow a simple hello world project and I want to create a new project I am already limited in some way. I have to go to Installed > (I want to use C#) Visual C# > Universal or Windows Apps or Windows Phone Apps. But none of these 3 points are available when I want to follow the tutorial. Do you have any suggestions why this might be the case ?
To develop Windows Phone 8.1 apps, you need Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows. You're using the version for Desktop which is why you don't see the necessary templates.
You can use the tools in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows to
create innovative and compelling Windows Phone and Windows Store apps
on Windows 8.1.
You can find and download the Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows here.
What do I need to install so that I can develop applications for Windows Mobile 6.5.3 devices, using Visual Studio 2008?
Since it took me like 3 days of research to figure out how to actually do this I'm creating this article to hopefully ease some others pain.
Firstly, have Visual Studio 2008 installed. Secondly, install these add on pieces:
Windows Mobile 6 Professional and Standard Software Development Kits Refresh
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06111a3a-a651-4745-88ef-3d48091a390b&displaylang=en
Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Professional Images (USA)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1A7A6B52-F89E-4354-84CE-5D19C204498A&displaylang=en
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (USA)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e&displaylang=en
Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional DTK
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c0213f68-2e01-4e5c-a8b2-35e081dcf1ca&displaylang=en
You may not need to install all of these but I did and it won't hurt anything most likely. nextly
Open Visual Studio 2008 and create a new project for Smart Device click ok
Select Device Application on the main window with the icons and change the target platform to Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK. Click OK.
Right click on the the Project Name in the solution explorer and select Change Target Platform and choose Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional SDK. Click Ok.
The project will need to be closed and reopened.
That simple!
For Windows 10 (and probably some earlier versions) I think Andrew's answer is missing something important. It also includes some packages that shouldn't be needed for strictly 6.5.3 development. For reference, if you attempt to install the 6.5.3 DTK and missing anything, it should tell you.
At a minimum, you should only need the following:
VS 2008 Professional
Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK Refresh https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6135
Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional DTK https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5389
Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 Driver
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3182
I have been developing WP (Windows Phone) 8.0 apps using Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone. To start developing for WP 8.1, I downloaded VS 2013 including update 2 RC from Windows Phone Developer site which is supposed to use to develop WP 8.1 apps.
I've tried twice, but there is no option to create WP 8.1 app even after a successful installation. What I get is only this:
i.e. no option to create Windows Phone 8.1 apps. If it matters, I'm interested in WP 8.1 Visual C# template specifically.
As I've mentioned, since I develop Windows Phone 8.0 apps, therefore Visual Studio Express (2012) for Windows Phone is already installed.
I've already gone through:
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
Why is there no Windows Phone version of Visual Studio Express 2013?
Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone
How to get started with windows phone SDK 8.1?
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
but none address the solution.
Being a windows app developer even I was baffled with the shift in Windows Phone location. You can find it in
Visual C# --> Store Apps --> Windows Phone apps.
Do sign in, in Visual Studio through Microsoft Account then go to ur notification and update ur VS and you will get this screen. Its usually caused due to some updates working only when VS can access developer's account and also I am using VS 2013 pro.
Have you installed Windows phone emulator SDK with the updated emulators?
I finally got the solution.
I downloaded both Visual Studio 2013, and update 2 RC using the /layout switch at command prompt. From MSDN:
After you download the update executable from the MSDN website to a
location on your file system, run the following command at a command
prompt: /layout.
This command downloads all the
packages for the installation. By using the /layout switch, you can
download all the installation packages, not just the ones that apply
to the download machine. This approach gives you all the files that
you need to run this update anywhere and may be useful if you want to
install components that weren't installed originally.
To do this, download the Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC files (about 2-3 MBs each). Then, create a shortcut of these files on desktop, and then open properties of shortcut. In target field after ", add a space followed with /layout as shown below:
This will download all installation files to your disk and when you install the VS (the exe at specified download folder), it won't ask it to fetch from internet, rather will do it from offline files and phone SDK 8.1 will be installed too.
Please be warned that, this will take a lot of time. To save time, I suggest following what is in Update section.
Update
While searching on internet, I found these two links on Microsoft website:
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
Desktop
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update
2
In download section, these two sites show that, the offline download option is now available (as evident from the ISOs shown). Though, I don't know if that would help as I haven't tested this option. Just that this option will be much more quicker than using /layout switch.
I've installed Windows Phone SDK 8.0 and there are no project types for desktop windows RT applications.
How can I develop this type of applications?
Windows RT is not associated with the Phone SDK - it comes from the main desktop development environment.
Microsoft does not allow desktop apps to be built for Windows RT. The RT desktop is limited to make the office applications work, but does not include the full windows functionality.
To develop windows 8 desktop apps, you use Visual Studio as you would have in the past for desktop apps.
To build a windows store app you would go under c# and select Windows Store. Tutorials located at Microsoft. There you will get a selection of templates you can build from to make your app. I expect these templates will also build apps that can run on a Windows RT device. (I haven't tested that though)
Creating desktop applications for Windows RT?
Technically, you cannot develop Desktop Applications for Windows RT. Its not officially supported by Microsoft. You can develop Store Applications for it, though. Store Apps used to be called Metro Apps, but Microsoft was exposed to legal risk with the name (see Microsoft to drop 'Metro' name for Windows 8).
For hacking around the restriction, see Can ARM desktop programs be built using visual studio 2012. However, your app will likely be rejected from Microsoft's Windows Store if you submit it.
...are no project types for desktop windows RT applications.
Windows RT is there - you want a Windows Store app:
The Windows Store App project will define WINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_APP. It will have three platforms: X86, X64 and ARM. Windows RT Pro is X64. Windows RT is ARM. I'm not sure what X86 is classified as. For developers and engineers, its all just WINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_APP with three platforms. There's no difference between Pro and non-Pro under Visual Studio (some hand waiving).
For some good reading on WINAPI_FAMILY and platform detection, see Chuck Walbourn's three part series Dual-use Coding Techniques for Games.
With some hand waiving, the backend difference between Windows Phone and Windows Store is:
Windows RT uses the compiler located at
%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\bin\x86_ARM\CL.exe
Windows Phone uses the compiler located at
%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\WPSDK\WP80\bin\x86_arm\link.exe
Obviously, the paths change when platforms change. But the linker (link.exe) and other tools (like lib.exe) are in the same directory as the compiler.
The environment for Windows RT (ARM) is labeled Visual Studio 2012 ARM Cross Tools Command Prompt. You can find it at Start (what's left of it) → Program Files → Visual Studio 2012 → Visual Studio Tools:
The environment for Windows Phone (ARM) is labeled Visual Studio 2012 ARM Phone Tools Command Prompt:
Similarly, the environment for Windows Phone (X86) is labeled Visual Studio 2012 X86 Phone Tools Command Prompt; and Windows RT Pro (X64) is labeled Visual Studio 2012 X64 Cross Tools Command Prompt.
All the command prompts set the environment so INCLUDE, LIBPATH, PATH etc are ready for command line development. To date, that's all I have used because I have been porting libraries. I have not use Visual Studio for a project yet.
You will also want to look over Can ARM desktop programs be built using visual studio 2012 for the _ARM_WINAPI_PARTITION_DESKTOP_SDK_AVAILABLE=1 define.
Also see Jason Zander’s What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA) on MSDN.
Finally, see Desktop apps ported to Windows RT on XDA Developers forum.
You can sort of hack Visual Studio 2012 and later to allow you to reference RT in windows desktop apps.
1.) Unload your project in Visual Studio
2.) Add a TargetPlatformVersion property to the project:
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetPlatformVersion>8.0</TargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
3.) Reload the project.
4.) Go to "Add Reference..."
5.) There should now be an additional Windows option on the left panel that allows you to add the Windows Core reference.
For more information see Using Windows 8* WinRT API from desktop applications
Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are two separate products and require 2 separate SDKs to develop for. Windows Phone 8 runs on mobile devices only, while Windows 8 runs on desktops, laptops and tablets.
All you need to do to build Windows 8 apps is a machine with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 installed on it. You can use the 90 day evaluation for Windows 8 Enterprise with the Express (free) edition of Visual Studio to build such apps. If you are a student you get full version of Visual Studio for free via the Dreamspark program.
To develop Windows Store apps, you need Visual Studio 2012.
The Visual Studio Express that comes with the Windows Phone SDK does not have the templates for developing Windows Store apps.