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issa
issa

Reputation: 31

Visual studio 2013 Store menu items are disabled for targeted application from 8.0 to 8.1

first I have an application for windows mobile 8.0, then I want to upgrade it for windows 8.1 I used Visual studio 2013 to oarget windows phone to windows phone 8.1 , result windows sliverlight 8.1. the problem all the item in Store Menu are disabled, such as Create App Package... etc

Upvotes: 2

Views: 421

Answers (2)

eyebraus
eyebraus

Reputation: 126

To build on Chubosaurus's answer, the following project types in Visual Studio use the following runtimes.

  • "Windows Phone 8.0" - Silverlight
  • "Windows Phone 8.1" - WinRT
  • "Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1" - Silverlight

For this reason Visual Studio currently has no upgrade path from "Windows Phone 8.0" to "Windows Phone 8.1", which causes a lot of dev confusion.

Upvotes: 0

Chubosaurus Software
Chubosaurus Software

Reputation: 8161

You are confusing Windows Phone 8.1 runtime and Silverlight applications.

Windows Phone 8.1 runtime will have those menus, Silverlight won't.

See Rob's detailed explanation here: MSDN blog: Why can’t I create an app package?

Upvotes: 1

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