Getting Started

Currently if you want to build a Windows Store Apps player:

• you have to do it on Windows 8.1 or higher when targeting SDK 8.1
• you have to do it on Windows 10 or higher when targeting Universal Windows 10 Apps SDK.

Unity supports three Windows Store Apps targets:

• X86 and ARM (when targeting SDK 8.1)
• X86, X64 and ARM (when targeting Universal Windows 10 Apps)

There are three configurations (select them is 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.

Things that are not yet supported:

• Legacy Network classes (please use current Unity Networking), WWW and UnityWebRequest are supported
• GameObject.SendMessage (partially works, but function which accepts the message must match the message sent, because the argument conversion doesn’t work)
• You can’t access C# classes from JS scripts unless you check .NET Core Partially in Compilation Overrides in PlayerSettings

Requirements when targeting Windows SDK 8.1/Windows Phone SDK 8.1/Universal SDK 8.1:

• Windows 8.1 (Note: Windows 8.1 N users should install this patch http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40744) or higher
• Visual Studio 2013 (12.021005.1 or higher)
• Testing devices:
  • For basic testing of Windows SDK 8.1, same PC which is used for development is enough.
  • For basic testing of Phone 8.1, it’s advisable to acquire a real Windows Phone 8.1 device, because the emulator has a bug with touch input.

Requirements when targeting Universal Windows 10 Apps SDK:

• 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, this can be done in two following ways:

• Build an empty Windows Store 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

Helpful links

• Generic Windows Store Apps samples for Windows 8.1 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows–8-Modern-Style-App-Samples
• Generic Windows Universal Apps samples https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples
• Generic forum for Windows Store Apps http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/home?category=windowsapps
• Unity forum dedicated to Windows Store Apps and Windows Phone 8 http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/50-Windows-Development