Getting Started

Unity supports three CPU architectures when targeting Universal Windows Platform: X86, X64 and ARM.

There are three configurations (select them in Visual Studio):

• Debug for debugging purposes
• Release for profiling
• Master for submission to store

The player log is located under <user>\AppData\Local\Packages\<productname>\TempState. See also log files.

Requirements when targeting Universal Windows Platform:

• Windows 8.1
• Visual Studio 2015 (RTM or later)
• Windows 10 Universal SDK
• Testing devices:
  • For basic testing of Windows SDK 10, same PC which is used for development is enough.
  • For basic testing of Phone 10, it’s advisable to acquire a real Windows Phone 10 device.

Before you can proceed you need to acquire Windows Store developer license. There are two ways you can do this:

• Build an empty Universal Windows application from Visual Studio and deploy it, if you’re doing this first time, a dialog window for getting developer license should open, follow the steps.
• See this link - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh974578.aspx#getting_a_developer_license_by_using_visual_studio

The following are not supported:

• Legacy Network classes (please use current Unity Networking). WWW and UnityWebRequest are supported (applies to all scripting backends).
• GameObject.SendMessage partially works, but function which accepts the message must match the message sent, because the argument conversion doesn’t work (applies only to .NET scripting backend).
• You cannot automatically access C# classes from JS scripts (applies only to .NET scripting backend). To do this, go to PlayerSettings (menu: File > Project Settings > Player), open the Publishing Settings, navigate to the Compilation section and set the Compilation Overrides to .NET Core Partially.

Helpful links

• Generic Universal Windows Apps samples https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples
• Generic forum for Universal Windows Apps https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-us/home?forum=wpdevelop
• Unity forum dedicated to Windows development http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/50-Windows-Development

• 2017–05–16 Page amended with no editorial review