{"id":193,"date":"2014-11-12T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2014\/11\/12\/c-tools-acquisition-for-windows-phone-and-store-development\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:12:44","slug":"c-tools-acquisition-for-windows-phone-and-store-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/c-tools-acquisition-for-windows-phone-and-store-development\/","title":{"rendered":"C++ Tools Acquisition for Windows Phone and Store Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through this blog post we wanted to inform you that C++ apps in Visual Studio 2015 Preview will be able to target Windows 8.1 Store and Phone development along with Windows 8.0 Phone development.  Everything mentioned below is relevant only for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. To provide this experience for the users <\/span>VS 2015 pulls in the latest versions of VS 2013 and VS 2012 C++ compiler tools, headers, libs, project settings and other tools to help target Windows 8.1 Store\/Phone or Windows 8.0 Phone respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation<\/h2>\n

In Visual Studio 2015 Preview you will be able to target Windows 8.1 Phone and Store along with Windows 8.0 Phone development. To be able to do this using C++, please select the three components highlighted below in in <\/span>Figure 1: Install Screen. Once you are done with the set up you will not only be able to create new projects but also open existing ones. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Caveats<\/h2>\n

Scenarios that are still being worked on and hence will not be functional in Visual Studio 2015 Preview are: <\/span><\/p>\n

C++ store and phone unit testing<\/h2>\n

Issue<\/h3>\n

Building new C++ Store, C++ Phone 8.1 Unit Test project on VS 2015 fails with cannot find header file cppunittest.h <\/span><\/p>\n

IntelliSense for Windows Phone 8.0 projects<\/h2>\n

Issue<\/h3>\n

For all Windows Phone 8.0 projects IntelliSense is not available. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ability to use ATL as part of the Windows 8.0 Store and Windows 8.1 Store and Phone projects<\/h2>\n

Issue<\/h3>\n