Windows 10: New Windows App Studio Release with Windows 10 Store support and more

Brink · Oct 30, 2015

The Windows App Studio Windows 10 Store Support Release is now available, allowing you to easily create and publish a universal Windows app in record time with no code required. This release builds on the foundation created with July’s App Studio Windows 10 Preview release. You can directly submit your app to the Store through Dev Center, now with no intermediate step in Visual Studio required. In addition, this release brings a host of other new features.

New Features:

Windows 10 Store Package with Screen Shots

Windows App Studio now generates a Store package for your Windows 10 apps, including automatically created screenshots for the Store listing.

Immersive Simulator (full screen web view)

No one wants to preview their app only in a tiny viewport. Included with this release is a big full screen simulator into Windows App Studio. Now it’s easy check out the app you’re building and interact with it in a full screen mode as you’re working on it.

Windows App Studio Collection App

Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily manage the contents of a collection for an app without making any update to the app itself? Now you can with the newly released Windows App Studio Collection App available here. This app lets you easily manage the collections for all your apps in real time without the need to go to the Windows App Studio website. Update the data in the app and it will update the data in your relevant projects and apps with no additional actions required.

Live Tiles Editor

You can now design dynamic Live Tiles for your Windows 10 apps from within Windows App Studio. This will work on any Windows 10 app you create with the exception of Hosted Web Apps. With this tool, you fully customize your Live Tiles to make your app more dynamic for your customers when they view it from the Start menu or on a Windows 10 mobile device.

…and more, including:

Advanced theme and icon editors

Better sideloading support for Windows 10 apps

Hero Image Editor

Improvements to the UX in apps generated with added visual features

Initial Windows 10 IoT support

Windows App Studio NuGet packages

Source code on GitHub for libraries and sample apps

As many of you already know, with Universal Windows apps the same app can run on PCs, Mobile devices, and Raspberry Pi 2s and other IoT devices. Windows Universal apps generated in Windows App Studio will share all of this great functionality and they’ll run on a wide range of devices.

For those of you with existing Windows 8.1 projects in App Studio, with just a couple of mouse-clicks, you can upgrade your project to Windows 10. All you need to do is to navigate to your Windows 8.1 Projects page, and click on the “Convert” icon for any app(s) you’d like to upgrade. It really is that easy.

Enjoy the new Windows App Studio release and let’s go build some apps!
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Source: Windows App Studio Release Windows 10 Store Package support and other new features | Building Apps for Windows

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Gautam krishna.R · Oct 30, 2015

Windows app development requires windows 8.1 error on installing visual studio on windows 10

I have a visual studio professional license key. When i am installing visual studio on windows 10 the insulation setup shows a warning that " Windows store app development require windows 8.1". I am primarily using the visual studio for windows & windows
phone app development. I want to know what version of visual studio pro is compatible with windows 10.

Installing visual studio pro by ignoring this warning do not solved my problem. While creating new apps with visual studio its showing an error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object error"

MeYangXp · Oct 30, 2015

what will happen to my windows 8.x app purchases when upgrading to windows 10

I have several Windows 8.1 Update devices I have not upgraded to Windows 10. I have purchased a few apps on Windows store, mainly games by Microsoft Studio. I have not touched Windows 10 RTM and don't know much about it. So

Will these apps be available under Windows 10 after upgrade process if I have them installed under Windows 8.1 Update?

Are all Windows 8.x store apps available on the Windows 10 Store?

Does it depend on whether the publisher upload to the new store?

What happened to the license purchase?

Also if you can answer this as well: similarly what will happen to app purchases on the Windows Phone 8.x platform when the Windows 10 Mobile RTM updates release next year. Did Microsoft officially say anything about that? Thanks a lot.

PS: edited for clarity

hTconeM9user · Oct 31, 2015

Going to download it and try it love trying new things thanks Brink for finding it

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