I have interest on creating mobile apps. So is it possible to create a app using visual studio 2010 ultimate. What is the difference between Visual Studio 2010 Express and visual studio 2010 ultimate.
Depends on what platform you want to make mobile aps - Windows Phone/Android/iOS
For Windows Phone - you can download the Mobile development SDK for VS2010 which will allow you to create mobile apps.
As for the difference between versions - content. With Ultimate you have more project templates, tools,supports more programing languages and is paid, while Express is a free version with less content for the more average user.
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I am interested to port one of my windows applications so that I can distribute my app in the Microsoft Store. Target platform will
be Windows 8.1 because I am not running Windows 10.
I am using Visual Studio Community 2017. I tried to follow this guide from Microsoft
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt203664.aspx
to create a Windows 8.1 Store app with Visual Studio but it seems that the described functionality is not available at
Visual Studio Community 2017. Also I cannot find any related Windows Store 8.1 Project Template at Visual Studio Community 2017.
So which is the latest available Visual Studio version which supports creating Windows 8.1. Store Apps?
Regards
Michael
Windows 8.1 Store app development is not available in Visual Studio 2017. You should use Visual Studio 2015 instead.
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.
I have Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows 8 apps installed, now i want to upgrade it to also support c# desktop apps.
Can you please help me out in upgrading it so that in the end I want to have only one Visual studio that supports both Windows 8 Store apps + C# desktop apps.
You'd need to buy Visual Studio Professional 2013 if you want a single program to do both.
Microsoft have 3 Express versions:
Express 2013 for Web - (does ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC web sites)
Express 2013 for Windows - (does Windows 8 and windows Phone apps)
Express 2013 for Windows Desktop - does C# desktop apps (Winforms, WPF)
To do both Windows 8 Store apps and C# desktop apps you need 2 versions of express installed.
The Professional (and higher) versions however can do all these types of project in one application.
See Microsoft for details:
Visual Studio Express versions
Visual Studio Professional NB - it can be bought with or without a MSDN subscription.
Currently I am using visual studio 2010 in a new Windows 8 machine and I am a Windows Phone developer. Windows Phone SDK works properly only in VS1012 on Windows 8.
In case of Windows Phone, what's the difference between using visual studio express or add-in on visual studio 2012 ultimate?
Visual Studio Ultimate is a powerful professional and commercial tool. It offers you to install extensions, testing capabilities and all sorts of cool stuff that you may or may not need or even not know they exist. To compare editions in details, go here.
If you just wish to develop apps for Windows Phone 8, Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone will be fine - complete SDK is available to you, and in that sense it shouldn't be any different. You get the emulator(s), Blend etc. However, you will have to switch to other Express versions if you wish to develop for other platforms, too.
From an SDK feature perspective, there is no difference. If you already have VS2012 Ultimate, then you should use it with the add-in because of all of the extra capabilities that VS2012 Ultimate has over VS2012 Express. But if you don't have Ultimate already, it's worth noting that VS2012 Express is free and Ultimate is rather pricey - so if all you want to do is develop WP apps/games, Express is probably sufficient for your needs.
I was wondering if it is possible to create metro style apps (Html5 etc) for Windows 8 using templates for Visual visual studio 2010?
I know there is a download for Visual Studio Express 11.
TIA
JD
VS2010 can not be used to create Metro style applications you need to use Visual Studio that came with the Windows Developer Preview.