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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling UWP app development on Windows 10


To get started with UWP app development, you must first enable app development for your Windows 10 device. If you are familiar with app development on Windows 8.X, you will recall the need to possess a developer license that had to be periodically renewed with Microsoft. That is no longer the case for UWP apps—once you have enabled development support, you are good to go. Let's look at how to do that.

Getting ready

Have Windows 10 installed on your computer. VS Express for Windows 10 will install all the necessary tools for you by default, so if you are running a different version of VS2015, make sure you have opted to install the Universal Windows App Development Tools for your particular installation of VS2015. You can rerun the VS2015 installer, if needed, to install them.

The following screenshot shows the items that should be installed. Note that specific version numbers may change between the time of writing this and when you read it, but that...