Microsoft Windows 8: Building the project

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

We must build the client project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 before we can distribute it.

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

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

Parent topic: Preparations for using the mobile client