Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017

25Universal Apps

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

• Enabling your Windows 10 device for development
• Developing Windows Universal apps using XAML and C#
• Using common Windows Universal Apps
• Packaging and deploying an app

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The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found on this book's webpage on Wrox.com on the Download Code tab. The code can also be found at http://github.com/benperk/BeginningCSharp7. The code is in the Chapter25 folder and individually named according to the names throughout the chapter.

It is easy to think of Windows as an operating system for the PC, but in reality, Windows can and is run on many types of devices. Most devices running Windows are of course PCs, but the Xbox and Surface tablets also run Windows, as do more exotic devices such as the HoloLens.

The Windows Universal Platform (UWP) provides a common infrastructure for developing apps that can run on every device that runs Windows 10. This allows you to build the app once and use the Windows Store to distribute the app without the need to build a package for each device type.

GETTING STARTED

Writing Universal apps requires a few initial steps before you can get going. In the previous version of Visual Studio, you were required to get a Windows 8 Developer License that should be renewed quite often. For Windows 10, this is no longer needed for development, though you still need a store account to be able to publish the app. While developing ...