Remote debug UWP app on Windows Server 2016

Question

The goal

I would like to use a Windows Server 2016 (x64) for remote debugging of UWP applications. The reason? My working PC still runs a Windows 7 instance and it

Answer 1

Thanks for your feedback. There is a similar issue when I try to deploy the UWP project to a remote machine on Windows 7. We have communicated about this using our internal channel. Unfortunately, Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017 doing UWP development on Windows 7 is not a recommend scenario.

For Visual Studio 2017, using Tools for UWP App Development is not applicable on Windows 7. See Visual Studio 2017 Support for Windows Development.

For Visual Studio 2015, the official support for Windows Universal is "Build only". We can use Visual Studio 2015 to build UWP apps on Windows 7, but some other Visual Studio features for Windows Universal development may be degraded. See Visual Studio 2015 Support for Windows Universal, Windows Store, and Windows Phone App Development.

To develop Windows Universal Apps, Windows 10 is strongly recommended. With Windows 10, you can get the best experience of UWP development.