General Question - Surface Pro 4 Development

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I've never developed on a Surface. I have a customer who wants a customized app written for his Surface Pro 4. Can I develop using VS 2013 and MS Access and just install the application on the Surface or do I need to do something else? I've been searching the web for tools I may need, the only thing I've found was from Microsoft but it was talking about developing using Vista!

Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Posted 28-Dec-15 13:00pm

lmilano

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-15 19:12pm

Help with what? Something else? What needs answering here? You need to do the development, learn it. And how "MS Access" can be related to the Surface development?
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lmilano 28-Dec-15 19:48pm

Hi Sergey...thanks for your comment. I could do that but I was concerned I might be missing something big that needed to be done before developing for a Surface Pro. I've never developed for anything but standard Windows workstations...

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2015-12-28T14:02:00

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You'll want to develop a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application. Cross-Platform, Universal & Cloud-Based App Development[^] You do this by downloading Visual Studio 2015, links can be found from following the above link.

UWP apps will run on Windows 10 on Surface, Phones, Desktops, Xbox, etc.

Posted 28-Dec-15 14:02pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-15 22:03pm

5ed.
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BillWoodruff 29-Dec-15 2:37am

Hi, Ryan, I'm curious: since the Surface 4 ... to my knowledge ... has the full .NET stack (not whatever "RT" was), couldn't a "regular" .NET WinForm application run on it with no changes ?

ZurdoDev 29-Dec-15 7:12am

I'm not sure. Probably, but it depends on what parts of .Net you use in your app and if they are all available on the Surface. It's my understanding if you are not targeting just the desktop or just the mobile, then UWP is the way to go.