Yeah Rocky Lhotka wrote a great set of posts on Windows 8/RT
side-loading earlier in the year.
http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/Windows8WinRTSideloadingUpdate.aspx
The deployment story is way too complicated & costly for Small/Medium
businesses. I really hope Microsoft addresses this issue. With such a
huge disincentive to deploying Win8/RT LOB applications a lot of SMB's
will be tempted to toss it in the too hard basket for internal
applications and look at more viable alternatives.
On 18/07/2013 19:40, Arjang Assadi wrote:
HI Ian,
Nop, the story is quite a sad one:
http://www.zdnet.com/the-enterprise-sideloading-story-on-windows-8-its-complicated-7000006742/
In short without Windows 8 Enterprise and buying 100 liceenses for
3000$ for deployment this is not possible.
It is a pity, SurfaceRT is light and awesome for making apps that
would circles around other devices but again due to wisdom of
Licensing Guru it is only good for using with whatever the rest of non
developer users can use it for.
Is there a way to complain directly to Balmer? Windows Phone also had
some issues that made it useless for development, one being that it
required a user interaction to send SMS! Damned tryed to do it for a
getting notifie if a customer websire is down service.
Thanks
Arjang
On 18 July 2013 16:28, Ian Thomas <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Maybe a review of what WinRT *is* could help? This
<http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/nick-landry/archive/2012/06/19/developing-apps-for-microsoft-surface-windows-8-windows-rt-and-windows-phone.aspx>
is from Infragistics, a bit old, but still valid I think:
Also see this
<http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/windows8/winrt-replacing-win32-140605>
and this
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br230302%28v=vs.110%29.aspx#convert>.
Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Arjang Assadi
*Sent:* Thursday, 18 July 2013 5:13 PM
*To:* ozDotNet
*Subject:* Surface RT Prices Slashed $349
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/07/16/microsoft-cuts-surface-prices.aspx
Is it me that found the price was reasonable to begin with but
deployment of non-App Store Apps was the pain?
Are people developing and deploying their own custom (NON-APP
STORE) apps to RT with ease? If yes, then can anyone enlighten me
regarding the process to use? (With VS 2012 Professional)
Thank you
