I am trying to create a metadata package with the authering wizard in windows 8 dev preview.
As instructed in Installing the Device Metadata Authoring Wizard, I have installed the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and then the WDK 7.1.0.
But still cannot locate the Driver menu in the visual studio.
I am totally new to the Windows 8. Please help on the issue
Note:The documents say "install and launch the wdk". How do you launch the wdk in windows8
You may need to install the newer WDK 8 in order to get the DRIVER menu in Visual Studio 2012.
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My windows version is Win 10 1803. I installed Visual studio professional 2017, and along with that I installed SDK 10.0.17134.1 and WDK 10.0.17134.1. I restarted the system, and the visual code, yet the option of creating a Windows driver project under Visual C++ is not showing.
Methods tried:
Re-installation of WDK,
Rebooting the system,
Using same version of WDK and SDK as mentioned in Microsoft site.
This solution worked.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowshardware/en-US/465b2453-4fdc-48f4-98d8-6b2996238f25/preview-wdk-10016257-does-not-install-with-vs-2017-release
Since the extension that works with Visual studio does not pop-up on its own, manually executing through cmd solves the purpose.
Please help if any body can. I am searching for the last 3 days but could not find any solution.
I first installed visual studio 2013 ultimate on Windows 7 32 bit,But no options for xamarin,Android and IOS were found.
Then I installed visual studio 2015 32 bit on windows 7 32 bit with 3 updates, and I installed with customized selection of "Cross platform mobile app development",after installation , When I created Android app project ,it was empty and gave me options to install xamarin. When I click on this option, it gave me option to upgrade installer when I click on it, Visual studio 2017 installer , started to install,after some time,it gave me customised installation options, I checked cross platform mobile app development,It get started to install, After some time,It gave error.
I tried many times.Same cycle is repeating.
First thing I would do is just uninstall all of the copies of visual studio that you've setup so far, so that you can start afresh.
Then select and download the Community edition of visual studio 2017 from this link.
When you install visual studio 2017, you need to make sure you select the following option in hte customisation section of the installation window.
It's worth also checking the "Individual components" tab and making sure that if there is an option called "Android emulator for visual studio" that it is also ticked, trust me it will save you a lot of trouble in the long room.
However If that option isn't there, then you don't need to worry about it.
Hope this helps somewhat.
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 am planning to start developing windows drivers and I have some questions.
How can I start a simple Visual Studio driver project? I am using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 and I have read on MSDN how to make a simple software driver, but in the tutorial, in the New Project window, there are more options than I have. To be more precise, I don't have Templates > Visual C++ > Windows Drivers. Or If i am searching online for User Mode Driver (UMDF), I can't find nothing. I have installed WDK 8.1
What additional changings should I do in order to build correctly a driver project?
VS2012 does not work with WDK 8.1.
You need WDK 8.0
I believe WDK 8.1 may not work with Visual Studio 2012. I did confirm that you can install WDK 8 on top of Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, and the project templates will show up.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/ff557573
Maybe try this?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms247116%28v=vs.100%29.aspx
To restore the default project templates
In the command prompt, navigate to the location of devenv.exe. This file is located in <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE.
NoteNote
If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you must open the command prompt as an administrator by right-clicking the command prompt and then clicking Run as administrator.
Type "devenv /installvstemplates" and press Enter.
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.