Can anyone guide me, how can i create a metro app using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.?
What are the templates needed to Create Metro Apps.
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If there are some third party libraries available, please let me know.
Metro development is purposed to be done in Windows 8 and Visual Studio 20212 environment. You can use Diskpart (Windows 7 command tool) together with Windows Automated Installation Kit to install a Windows 8 instance in parallel with your current system.
You need
1 ISO; http://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/download/details.aspx?id=5753
2 Automated Inst Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/download/details.aspx?id=5753
3 About one-two hours (depends on your count on visual studio setup).
The result will be a file on your disk which is about 50-60GB. The bootloader will, after complete setup, give you both current Windows version and Windows 8 as option.
Perhaps you don't want to spend time on setup, so this may not be the answer you want to see. Which I fully understand. Though, there are several experience benefits using a complete Windows 8 environment. I can type a more detail on that, if requested.
Diskpart can be used like this,
create vdisk file=c:\VHD\Win8.vhd maximum=60000 type=expandable
select vdisk file=c:\VHD\Win8.vhd
attach vdisk
create partition primary
assign letter=v
After that, you can see the actual file which hold space for your virtual disk. In the source folder of the unpacked ISO file, you can find install.wim. That file will be used together with the next command based tool Automated Installation Toolkit.
imagex /info i:\sources\intall.wim
imagex /apply i:\sources\install.wim 1 v:\
Which will instantiate a silent installation from unpacked ISO to the boot disk.
Lastly the virtual boot file should be added as an optional bootup
C:\Windows\System32\bcdboot v:\Windows
From reboot and that you select Windows 8, the installation of Windows 8 will continue from the Metro design. Though after you type the product key. The best part of this, is that while in Windows 8, you still have full access to your current Windows drive.
Please note! This is a brief explanation of a process that make a Windows 8 installation without affect the current Windows, except take a lot of disk space.
You can't create Metro style apps directly in Visual Studio 2010 without using third party libraries e.g. DevComponents . Please do remember that it will be a winforms application which looks like metro style app.
For a real metro style app you have to use Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8
Metro applications can only be developed on Visual Studio 2012.
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I have written a simple c# app to let my son do some stats on dice rolling for a game he is developing.
I created a simple interface using Visual Studio 2017 and Universal Windows.
After loads of silly errors - and lots of less silly ones, I finally have an app that runs as I want it to in debug mode.
I now want to publish it so he can copy the files and run it on his Windows computer.
Now I am sure this is really easy - but after 2 days of google searching, MSDN searching and searching this forum I am no nearer knowing what I need to do.
I have changed the solution configuration to Release and the platform to x86. I have run Build and Deploy solution form the build menu and have loads of files in my bin/x86/release file partial list from windows explorer.
But none of the exe files seem to do anything (the app5.exe waits a while sometimes, but no sign of the app anywhere).
I am obviously missing some critical preparatory step, but I can't find out what it is.
Some of the MSDN notes talk about Publish (this is greyed out or not present, but Deploy appears).
Can anyone please point me to some idiot proof documentation to help me work out what I should be doing.
I am new to Visual Studio, new to C# and new to windows app development - so my app has been pulled together from web research and using common sense :)
I have assumed that what I am trying to do is pretty easy - but I am not yet convinced.
To sell your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app or distribute it to other users, you need to package it. If you don't want to distribute your app through Microsoft Store, you can sideload the app package directly to a device. Since you used the VS, you can follow this document to package a UWP app with Visual Studio: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/packaging-uwp-apps#sideload-your-app-package.
After you package your app, if you want to sideload your app, you can follow the How do I sideload an app on desktop part in the following document:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/sideload-apps-in-windows-10#how-do-i-sideload-an-app-on-desktop
More details, you can get from this topic:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/
This is going to be quite a long question but please bear with me till the end. Before going into the details, below are my PC environments:
Windows 7 Professional x64
Visual Studio Community 2013 Update 4
On top of that, I checked my PC's processor does support virtualization using Intel® Processor Identification Utility.
I also installed all the required SKD 8.1 components required to develop Windows phone 8.1 apps as shown in the picture below.
Now I clearly understands from the visual studio website requirements:-
Windows Phone 8.0 development requires Windows 8.1 (x64) or higher
Windows Phone 8.1 development requires Windows 8.1 (x86) or higher
For the Windows Phone emulators, Windows 8.1 (x64) Professional
edition or higher, and a processor that supports Client Hyper-V and
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
But from this SO Q&A it seems like developing windows 8.1 phone apps is still possible. However when I try to open an existing windows phone 8.1 project I got the error as shown in the picture below:
On top of that, in my Add New Project window there are no Windows Store Apps templates showing up.
I later found out from this msdn documentation that the RequiredPlatformVersion Element of the Visual Studio project template is filtering out the templates. However I tried to change the Blank Windows Phone project template element's value to 8 as specified in the documentation and also a few others value smaller than 6.3.0 but still fail to show the template.
Then I tried to install an extension called Windows Phone Template Pack which then adds two window phone project templates in my Add New Project window as shown below.
I created an empty project using that template and surprisingly I am able to open the windows phone 8.1 project as shown in the picture below.
That got me thinking that it should be possible to develop windows phone 8.1 apps but not emulating it but I am out of ideas on how to work around it now. I even tried looking at the denv.exe.config file to try my luck but there's nothing of interest there either.
Is there anyone that successfully build a Windows Phone 8.1 apps in an similar PC environment? A workaround will be sufficient.
Sorry to say this but Windows 8.1 is a requirement for developing as usually emulators on being initialized tries to load the OS into the device like the basic theme etc options.
1) You can try to connect your Windows phone to your PC and select Deploy to Device. (Though it might work and you will be able to debug yet still you would face a problem when you try to create a release build package to be uploaded on windows store. Also even though the fixes might work for short period but with Windows 10 about to be released you would be stuck with waiting for a fix to develop apps for that.)
2) You can try installing windows 8.1 inside VMWARE and deploy it.
I want to create an app that runs in desktop mode when installing in Windows 7 and runs in metro mode when installing in Windows 8 (like google chrome).
I have Visual Studio 2013 and I can create apps than run in desktop mode or metro mode, but not both modes
In any case, thanks
Unfortunately that is not possible by designing one application. You need to create two different application and through the setup, understand which version the operating system has and install the corresponding version. Although you can take advantage of Portable Libraries (See Cross-Platform Development with the .NET Framework) to write most of your codes and then write the UI separately for each environment. The easiest way might be to design your application based on MVVM and then almost you need to write your Views twice one for Metro style and one for WPF application although the codes would be quite similar.
I know I need a mac to deploy but can I at least use my PC to develop the application? It would really help me a lot if I can develop on Windows where I can focus on writing the app.
This answer covers only Xamarin 2.0. Unfortunately I don't know MonoTouch.
Take a look at this statement about Xamarin 2.0:
Xamarin 2.0 bundles the company's Android, iOS and Mac development
tools in a single affordable package aimed at all tiers of developers.
The free Starter edition includes the Xamarin Studio IDE enables
developers to create Android, iOS and Mac apps using C#. However, the
free edition doesn't allow developers to exceed 32k of compiled IL
code and it cannot import or call upon any third-party libraries. The
$299 Indie edition removes this restriction. Things start getting
really interesting for .NET developers with Xamarin Studio's $999
Business edition. This version adds the ability to code iOS
applications within Visual Studio. Yes, you read correctly — code
iOS applications in Visual Studio! Granted, you still need a Mac to
compile and deploy the application to iOS devices (more on that
later), but the fact that you can use a familiar IDE to develop iOS
applications is a game changer.
To make it short: Yes you will need a mac to deploy your application and
yes you can develop on windows using Visual Studio.
Source: http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/xamarin-20-review/240150634
No you don't need the 1 k version to compile on windows. When you want to deploy your app you need to buy it! If u are making a app for windows 8 or whatever you dont need to pay. Monogame is a open source project. For the deployment to the phones your paying to the xamarin project.
"This means that your Xamarin iOS for Visual Studio installation requires a networked Mac OS-X computer to perform these tasks for you. Once configured, Xamarin’s tools will make the process as seamless as possible, but the fact remains that a Mac is required in addition to the Windows computer running Visual Studio."
So still need to hook up my mac and perform all the installations and configurations. Will take time but not a deal breaker I guess.
It is possible to use cloud build services for such a task. One such service worth giving a try is http://ship.io - they offer a free plan to get started.
I don't have a Windows machine, just a Mac and a Linux box. Windows it pretty expensive, and I don't want to pirate it either.
Is it possible to develop Windows Phone 7 apps in Mac OS X or Linux? Is Visual Studio required?
If you want an affordable and legal copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, a system builder license is available for $99.
There are countless reports of this running great in virtualization software on Mac OS X and Linux.
I personally ran Windows 7 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 10.10 and it was a great experience. Definitely a practical environment to develop Windows applications in.
Once you've got Windows 7, all the development tools you need (including the phone emulator) are free from Microsoft.
No.
That being said maybe it is possible to run Visual Studio for Windows Phone (which is free) on Linux via Wine but I doubt it.
You can do some Silverlight development on Linux and learn some of the XAML and C# concepts and apply them later on Windows Phone but you won't be able to write a real WP app without a Windows machine.
Is Visual Studio required?
Your profile says you're 16 years old. You more than likely qualify for Microsoft's DreamSpark program. Even homeschooled kids qualify. This means you have legal free access to Visual Studio 2010 Professional.
I haven't tried this myself, but I think you can do this using PhoneGap and their PhoneGap Build service.
However I imagine its a pretty painful debug cycle without the emulator (which I understand you need Windows for).