How To Setup IDE For Universal App Development

Firstly, you have to install the Visual Studio 2015 in your system. You can download visual studio from the following link:

When it is completely installed in you system restart your system once and it will apply all settings to the system.

Now open visual studio and make a new project, choose visual C#, select windows and universal application.

If there is no such option in the visual C# and there is a message to install SDK for universal development close visual studio and go to Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 and download standalone SDK.

Windows 10 SDK

A short exe file; download and run it on your system. When it is opened, there will be two options: first is to install features to this computer and second is download it for other system. Select the first one, now it will take some time almost 2 or 3 hours depending upon your internet. When it is completely installed, restart your system once.

Open VS again and go to new project and select universal application.

Blank App

If everything goes well, there will be an option to create universal application. Give the name of the app and you can start developing the universal application.

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