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Dacian Mujdar
Dacian Mujdar

Reputation: 584

Develop Windows Phone 8.1 apps on Windows 8

I'm having o Windows 8 OS on my pc and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 installed. Is it possible to develop apps on Windows Phone 8.1 in these conditions or an update to windows 8.1 is mandatory for this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (2)

Karthik Nishanth
Karthik Nishanth

Reputation: 2020

Windows phone 8.1 apps are two types - Silverlight and Windows runtime.

If you are building a Silverlight app, you can target your app to Windows Phone 8 and work on it.

However, only when you want to develop a Universal App, you need Windows 8.1 since Windows Store apps, whether they run on phone / desktop have common runtime dependancies.

Upvotes: 0

Rob Caplan - MSFT
Rob Caplan - MSFT

Reputation: 21919

You will need to update to Windows 8.1 to build Windows Phone 8.1 apps. You can build Windows Phone 8 apps on Windows 8 and run them on Windows Phone 8.1

Upvotes: 2

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