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Raafat A. Ali
Raafat A. Ali

Reputation: 29

Can Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows build a Windows store app?

I'm puzzled about what version of Visual Studio 2012 Express I should go with: Windows 8 or Windows Desktop. The Windows Desktop version is double the size of the Windows 8 version, so does the Windows Desktop Version have all capabilities of the Windows 8 version, such as building a Windows store application?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 404

Answers (1)

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 754268

According to this explanation page by Microsoft:

  • Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 --> for Windows store apps
  • Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web --> for regular web apps (ASP.NET)
  • Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop --> for regular Winforms and WPF apps
  • Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone --> for Windows Phone 8 apps

So: no - Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop is NOT suitable to build Windows Store Apps - that would be Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8 instead.

Confusing - I agree - but that's marketing at work ......

Upvotes: 2

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