What/Why does WinRT Create New Clean Layout Randomly

Question

So occasionally and seemingly randomly when developing WinRT apps Visual Studio goes through a lengthy process that starts with \"Creating a new clean layout...\" I would love m

Answer 1

Have you looked at the Windows Dev Center for Win Store Apps? It tells you literally step-by-step what it takes to get it to market. You'll need a dev account, the Windows App Certification Kit, and their approval.

The sandbox refers to AppContainers which were integrity levels in Vista. The sandbox limits/requires explicit declaration for certain privileges.

See Security in Windows Store apps for an idea of how sand boxing/security work.

Windows 8 and RT Windows App Store dev is pretty similar. See this Windows Store app development for Windows RT PCs Whitepaper for some differences.

Hope this gets you started.

EDIT 1:

If you're interested in the MSBuild process, read "Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build" and the supplement "Supplement to Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build". Unfortunately, I don't remember RT being explicitly mentioned, but windows 8 is pretty close.

See App packages and deployment (Windows Store apps) for how apps are managed/deployed from the store (relevant MSDN post).

See also Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Refresh: (05) Packaging and Deployment.