Create Your Metro Style App Package and Share It with your Friends

In this topic, I would like to talk about how to easily create a Metro Style App Package and deploy it to the other developer-enabled Windows 8 PC .

Create a App Package to share with your friends:

1. In your Visual Studio 11 Express menu bar right click [Store], then right click [Create App Package..]
2. In the Build Package dialog, select [Build a package to use locally only], then right click [Next]
3. Fill up your package settings in the next dialog and right click [Next]
4. Finally, click [Build]

Install your package that you just built:

1. Open a file explorer in your Windows 8 PC. Browse to the Packages\YourProjectName_Version_AnyCPU_Debug_Test\
2. Use administrator privilege to execute the windows batch file Add-AppxDevPackage.bata in the fold. (If this is the OS that you develop this App, you need uninstall this App first before you able to run this batch file.)
3. Allow the program to make changes to your computer.
4. Finish installing

Run your app in your Windows 8 PC: