Getting Started

Currently if you want to build a Windows Store Apps player, you have to do it on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 (Windows 8.1 is needed if you’re targeting SDK 8.1).

Unity supports three Windows Store Apps targets: X86, X64 and ARM.

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

Things that are not yet supported:

• Legacy Network classes (please use current Unity Networking), WWW is supported though
• 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)
• Visual Studio 2013 (12.021005.1 or higher)

Requirements when targeting Windows SDK 10.0:

• Windows 10.0
• Visual Studio 2015 (RTM or later)
• Windows 10 Universal SDK

Before you can proceed you need to acquire Windows 8 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 8.0 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows–8-app-samples–4d76cbbf
• Generic Windows Store Apps samples for Windows 8.1 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows–8-Modern-Style-App-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