I am developing a Windows 8 Store app. Till sometime back I could see the Tile of the app once I built and ran the Solution from Visual Studio.
However, very recently Visual Studio 2012 seems to have stopped creating the Tile to launch my application in the dev environment. I have to use Application Search to bring up the App shortcut and launch (outside the debugger).
Only recent change in my environment is the Update 1 installation.
Why has Visual Studio stopped creating the Tile or did I mess something up?
Environment:
Windows 8 Pro (x64)
Visual Studio Express 2012 Update 1
If you have un-pinned it from your start screen, it will be in your All Apps, you need to re-pin it. Most likely you just un-pinned rather than un-install.
Same here but I press Uninstall on my app.
Result :
My app is missing from "All apps".
App also cannot create any new/second icons/tiles.
Any new metro app have same problems
I manage to fix it by deleing folder(s) in (this is not good solution. must be another way to restore App):
"C:\Users\UserNameHere\AppData\Local\Packages\"
Related
I'm encountering the following
System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException error when I create a blank
Windows 10 Universal Application...
Following are event viewer screens...
I have checked online for other solutions and have already done the
following...
Uninstall/Repair Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
Reset my Windows 10 PC 1511 update
Cleared the Designer/ShadowCache folder
Target environment has been set to x86/x64
Target framework set to 10240
Developer mode enabled
Updated graphic drivers
Have cleaned and rebuilt solution
Updated to VS15 Update 2
Please let me know if you have been able to find a solution to the above
UWP applications fail to launch from Visual Studio if project location and Windows Store apps installation path are on a non-default drive. Also, the XAML Designer will crash if you install Visual Studio and Windows Store apps to a non-default drive
Windows 10 allows users to change the default storage location of Windows Store applications. If you select a non-default drive for your apps, and if you install Visual Studio 2015 onto this drive, the XAML designer will not start and Windows Store app projects built on this drive cannot be run from Visual Studio.
Note: the workaround below will make any Store apps installed to the secondary drive inaccessible until next restart.
The file system driver can be temporarily disabled by running the following command from an admin command prompt:
fltmc detach filecrypt :
This will enable both running apps from this drive as well as usage of the XAML designer until the machine is restarted.
For a longer term fix, move your app or Visual Studio install to your system drive, or a secondary drive that has never been the storage location for Windows Store apps.
I had the same problem. I started visual studio as an administrator and the designer came back.
You might want to try to clear the XAML Designer Shadow Cache. I've fixed al sorts of ailments with this process.
Its been a few months but I have finally been able to get the XAML Designer to work.
As #peterfaraday mentioned, the XAML Designer only works if you install Visual Studio on the System Drive (C: in my case) instead of using any other drive.
After uninstalling Visual Studio keep the following things in mind...
If your system partition is small, look to increase the space as the installation can take a lot of space based on the components selected.
If you had already installed VS on any other drive, while reinstalling you will not be able to change the default installation directory.
This is because your initial path of installation was saved as in the registry. I tried solving this issue by following these steps. In my case I had found multiple keys in the registry and hence "Reset this PC" (Windows 10) by allowing only for my personal files to remain. This cleared out all the registry keys and I was able to install VS back on the C: drive, resulting in the XAML Designer finally working (Please note that resetting your pc will remove any applications installed on your machine)
I got the same problem months ago. I Cleared the cache and Rebuild the solution. I got success.
Where disappeared XAML designer for Universal Windows app in Visual Studio 2015 Update1?
It is working for wpf and window 8.1 apps and XAML designer is enabled in Tools->Option->XAML Designer
Change the Target Version to (10.0; Bulid 10240)
See the notification asking to update Windows -
I was having the same problem. Updated windows from windows update as instructed by the VS2015 notification and now it is fixed.
I assume that you are using VS2015 on an operating system prior to Windows 10. According to a post on Microsoft Connect, this behaviour is by design. When you're using VS2015 on Windows 8.1, there is no support for design view, you have to upgrade to Windows 10 instead:
"If you are developing Windows 10 applications, this is by design since the designer requires Windows 10 in-order to show the design surface for UWP applications since we run application code. In Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, you will only get intelliSense. If you want full support for the design tools, you need to develop the application on Windows 10."
we've been asked to change a webapp we're making to metro interface, the thing is, we have only Visual Studio 2005, what should we do to be able to change our app to Metro?
You will need Visual Studio 2012 as far as I am aware. You can use the free Express Edition of Visual Studio 2012 for building Windows 8 Apps. You will also need to be running Windows 8. You cannot develop Windows 8 Apps on Windows 7, Vista, or any other OS version less than 8.
You can install the Express Edition of 2012 along side Visual Studio 2005 and have them run side-by-side, it doesn't replace 2005, so you can keep using it.
As far as doing it within visual studio 2005 I don't think it's possible. But what you would need is the Windows 8 SDK.
You may be able to get by with the open source IDE Sharp Develop. I haven't used it in a long time so I'm not sure how far you'll get with it.
Requirements for Developing windows 8 Application :-
1 -> Visual Studio 2012
2 -> Windows 8 Latest Version
3 -> Developer License.
Windows Store App Development
Once you are done with this remeber you need to meet certain criteria listed below
App certification and requirements
Now answer to your original question
with visual studio 2005 you wont be able to build the app as 1,2 are the basic requirements, hence forth once you start you can go through the links below to make ur app perfet for the windows store
Note : one bad news . Ull have to code entire thing again as metro is a subset of the win32 api's and it will not even recognize some of them .
I installed Windows 8 RP and VS 2012 Express for windows 8 in my system.Previously i did sample apps and executes it's successfully.But Suddenly app is not running while debug the application shows only"Build is started"but not showing output.
while putting break point in my app does not coming to solution.Why metro app is not running in VS 2012 express?
does not show any errors doesn't show any output only showing build started message.
please help me..
Below is screen shot...
Only Showing that message always not giving any output....
If you are running Windows 8 Release Preview, you need to be running Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate, which you can download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29931
My Visual Studio can't seem to build any of the Metro Sample applications. As I've never really used this IDE before, I've pretty much given up.
Can anyone direct me to a sample application that is already built and preferably some source code along with it for reference?
Note:
I have a copy of Windows 7 AND 8. However I can't seem to build Microsoft's File Access Sample in my copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. I'm trying to test one of my Win7 applications in Metro mode of Win8 (the application may be called for use during a user's session in a given Metro app).
Metro Apps (that is, applicatons based on WinRT in Windows 8) will not run in Visual Studio 2010. You need Visual Studio 11 express (that comes on the Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) or Visual Studio 11 developer preview (available for MSDN subscribers)).
According to Getting started with Windows Metro style app development, "To begin building Metro style apps for Windows, you must first download and install the Windows Developer Preview, which includes Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview and the Windows SDK for Metro style Apps."
So I think you'll have to do metro-style development from the Windows 8 Preview for now. That website also has some hello world type stuff and general direction on getting started.
You probably can build Metro Style Apps in Visual Studio 2010. Basically Metro is a special type of design where focus is more on texts than pictures. Metro means " Text before Chrome".
If you can build such metro controls ( or you can copy some from any windows 8 copy) you probably will be able to build very basic Metro style apps , but if u wish to build something advanced then i would suggest better switch to Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate .