Microsoft Windows 8: Building the project

Build the Application Center client project for Windows 8 in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

About this task

You must build the client project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 before you can distribute it.

Building the project is a prerequisite to distributing it to your users, but the Windows 8 mobile client is not intended to be deployed on Application Center for later distribution.

Procedure

To build the Windows 8 project:

  1. Open the Visual Studio project file called IBMApplicationCenterWindowsStore\AppCenterClientWindowsStore.csproj in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.
  2. Perform a full build of the application.

What to do next

To distribute the mobile client to your Application Center users, you can later generate an installer that will install the generated executable (.exe) file and its dependent Dynamic-Link Library (.dll) files. Alternatively, you can provide these files without including them in an installer.