Introduction

Universal Windows Platform provides the common application platform and lets the developers build app using JavaScript/HTML, C#/XAML and C++, etc.

In this part we are going to see the requirements for developing Windows 10 application and SDK used to develop Windows 10 apps.

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Create a new UWP project from the Blank App template with JavaScript as language like the following image:

Blank App template

This would create the necessary files and folders. Let’s look at the Visual Studio Solution explorer and review the items that gets created by default like the following image.

Solution explorer

You can see all the required default files. Windows 10 offers you to build app using WinJs also,

Package.appxmanifest

Now open the default.html file and start to write your code.

Add the following HTML code inside the body tag.

  1. <p>Content goes here</p>
  2. <div>
  3. <label> Welcome to Windows 10 </label>
  4. <ahref="https://windowsapptutorials.wordpress.com/">https://windowsapptutorials.wordpress.com/</a>
  5. </div
The complete code looks like the following screen:

code

Now time to run the app. Start Debugging button will also be set to “Local Machine” by default. If you want to run this on the Windows Mobile device, you will have to set this as “Mobile Emulator”. Press Run button or F5 directly from your keyboard to run the application and see the output.

output

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