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visual-studio-2015win-universal-appemulationwindows-7-x64windows-10-universal
user3847160
user3847160

Reputation: 98

running windows universal app on emulator in vs2015 on win7

I have been using the following tutorial https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/create-a-basic-windows-10-app-in-cpp in order to create some simple windows universal app. I have vs2015 professional with all ad-dons installed needed for the windows universal app development. I have win7 x64 sp1, and I wanted to test the app using some emulator/simulator, however I cant configure it on vs2015 as shown in the link. Are win10 necessary for testing or is there any way to run windows universal app in some emulator/simulator in vs2015 on a win7 64-bit machine.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 879

Answers (2)

Rahul Jha
Rahul Jha

Reputation: 1141

Windows 8.1: You can’t run the app locally (only on a remote Windows 10 device). You can use the emulators in Visual Studio, but not the simulator.

Windows 7: You can’t run the app locally (only on a remote Windows 10 device). You can’t use the emulators or the simulator in Visual Studio either. Check here.

It would be advisable to use W10. UWP takes advantage of One Core common across all Win10 devices.

Upvotes: 2

HelloWindowsPhone
HelloWindowsPhone

Reputation: 700

It's impossible. You only can build UWP apps on Windows 10. See here for more info (Requirement section)

Upvotes: 0

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