5 Steps to an Ideal Windows 10 App Development Environment

Article Introduction

I’ve recently released an article on TDN title, “5 Steps to an Ideal Windows 10 App Development Environment”. In it, I share lessons learned from setting up my Win 10 Dev environment.

Tip #1

Start with a Clean Slate

The Windows 10 SDK works best on a Windows 10 OS. You have a variety of ways to install the OS on your system.

You can upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. You can download the Windows 10 ISO. I had several problems upgrading a Windows 8.1 box, so I elected to install the Windows 10 ISO on a clean hard drive.

The next issue that I ran into was how exactly do I create a bootable USB drive that doesn’t require “diskpart”. I quickly found a program called, “Rufus” that will allow you to create a bootable USB drive with just a couple of clicks. As a matter of fact, the only thing that I had to change was just to point to the .ISO file that I downloaded earlier.

The Other Tips

The remaining 4 tips, plus a bonus one is hosted on the TDN website and you can access it here.

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