Deploy Windows Apps to Family and Friends without store, enterprise or development-tools

Question

I wrote a App for my family/friends and now we would like deploy it on or PCs. Publishing it in the store is not an option and not everyone has an Widows Live account. Sideloadi

Answer 1

now with Windows 10 Anniversary update, you could just double click *.appxbundle file to install

Steps:

1. create your package, select no, when prompt "Do you want to build packages to upload to Windows Store?"

2. go to the package folder, double click *.cer, and install the certificate to Trusted Root Certification Authorities

3. double click *.appxbundle to install

Client OS Requirement: Win10 14393

UWP Target SDK: 14393

UWP Min SDK: 14393