How to set Windows Phone 8 workload in Visual Studio 2017?

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2017 on my computer and after installation, when I tried to open my project running Windows Phone 8, I received an error message that is missing from the Windows Phone 8 SDK. So, I right-click on the project and click on install missing feature, but every time it shows 0 Kb. So, can some suggest steps for installing the SDK for Windows Phone 8 and tools / templates in Visual Studio 2017? I also tried installing the Standalone SDK, but it still gave me some JSON package error, and in Visual Studio it showed my project name.csproj error: Operation Canceled .

Please suggest some solution so that I can work on my Windows Phone 8 project in VS2017.

Answer 1

Microsoft seems to have removed support for developing Windows Store apps for Windows and Windows Phone 8 / 8.1 from Visual Studio 2017.

See compatibility with Visual Studio 2017 . In short, it says: "Application development for the Windows Store is not available."

You can help change Microsoft's mind to a vote to get it back.

Answer 2

, Windows 10. SDK Windows Phone 8 Windows 8:

• Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro
• :
  • 64- (64-) Windows 8

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