Wow, that’s a long title. Sorry, but I just wanted to be clear what you are getting into if you come here. In this article, I’m going to talk about what it takes in very simple terms to build and specifically debug a windows 8 metro application using the beta version of Visual Studio 2011.
Here are the steps:
1. Install Windows 8 Metro and Visual Studio 2011 Beta
2. Using display settings (control panel / display) make the monitor that is not your desktop the primary monitor
3. Launch your desktop on the computer that is your primary monitor
4. Run Visual Studio 2011 Beta on your desktop
5. Create a Metro style project
6. Run/Debug from inside Visual Studio
That’s it! The trick is that you want to be running visual studio from the monitor you are sitting in front of and NOT call that your main monitor. If you don’t do this, then metro comes up and covers up your Visual Studio session.
Hope this helps!
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Well put, Dave. I’ve been worried about this myself for years, which is why I haven’t started using cloud-based apps much when I’ve been able to avoid it.
Hi Joseph,
I just searched around a little and it seems Microsoft is a little confused on which one it is also. Take a look at the Microsoft store (and how they advertise).
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/list/categoryID.50804700?WT.mc_id=pointitsem_US_Google_5-VisualStudio_generic&wt.term=microsoft%20visual%20studio&wt.campaign=*5+-+Visual+Studio&wt.content=NjQdX09F&wt.source=google&wt.medium=cpc&WT.srch=1
Hi Peter – nice tip. FYI I think it is Visual Studio 11, not Visual Studio 2011 (the number coming from the internal version number for Visual Studio going all the way back to pre-.NET – i.e. VS6 was pre-.NET, then Dev7 == VS 2002/3, Dev8 = VS2005, Dev9 = VS 2008, Dev10 = vs 2010 ). Not sure if this name (Visual Studio 11) will persist into the release.