Retargeting a Windows 8 application to Windows 8.1

Apparently, fuck Windows 8. So says everybody. Including Microsoft. That's why at some point you're going to have to retarget your Windows 8 app (if you were crazy enough to make any) for Windows 8.1. Fortunately, Microsoft provides a guide for doing so in Visual Studio 2013 here. Fortunately, it's as simple as right-clicking on your solution in the Solution Explorer and clicking on Retarget for Windows 8.1

Creating my first Windows 8 store app

As you may or may not be aware, there are multiple types of applications that can be created for Windows 8:

• Windows store apps, which use the new Metro interface
• Desktop-based apps which are like those created for previous versions of Windows that can still run in the Desktop app.

I'm quite familiar with creating WPF apps for Windows, but Metro apps are new, and those are what I'll be working on. With that in mind, Microsoft provides the Prism framework which helps provide additional classes, interfaces, events etc to help people develop Windows Store apps that keep consistent with Windows 8 design principles and help the apps perform properly. I'll be starting with the MSDN link here.