{"id":5023,"date":"2012-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/05\/29\/team-building-your-windows-8-metro-style-applications\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:59:24","slug":"team-building-your-windows-8-metro-style-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/team-building-your-windows-8-metro-style-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone, since this is my first blog post I’d like to introduce myself first. My name is “Shady Youssef Ibraheem” and I Joined Microsoft in June 2011 working as a software development engineer in test for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, specifically for the Team Foundation build team. I hope that readers of this blog post find it helpful as I’m planning to publish a series of TFS Build specific posts very soon. If you have any suggestions about blog post topics regarding Team foundation Build please let me know, I’ll try to make it happen!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today I’m going to walk you through building and testing your windows 8 “Metro Style” applications using team foundation build 2011 express. For the purpose of this walkthrough, I will be using the <\/span>Consumer preview version of win8<\/span><\/a> , <\/span>Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Windows 8<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Express Beta<\/span><\/a>. Before we begin this walkthrough, it’s very important to understand 2 points. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Windows 8 Metro Style applications will only build on a windows 8 machine. This means you can’t reuse your already existing build machines to build metro style applications.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The newly released <\/span><\/span>team foundation build hosted service<\/span><\/a> provided to you on the team foundation service (TFS Preview) does not currently support building windows 8 metro style apps. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Step 1: Setup your development Environment:<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

    Let’s start by Opening Visual studio for the first time on a win8 machine. You’ll notice that a window pops up prompting you to acquire a developer’s license. While a developer’s license is not required to create a metro style project or to build it, it’s required for deploying your built bits. And since any metro style app is pretty much useless unless deployed then you might want to install it. The process is pretty straight forward once you provide your live ID.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    There’s also a handy command line tool which can be used to check\/acquire and delete your developer license. It’s found under “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDETailoredDeploy.exe”. You can use this command line to install a developer license on your win8 build machine if you’re using separate development\/build machines .If you need to deploy your builds for running tests during the build you might want to use this method or just open visual studio on the build machine to get the prompt above.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n