Building your first UWP application

Let us start with building our first UWP application, but before that, we need to set up the development environment for first use. Later, you can directly start with the project.

Setting up the development environment for first use

To start building apps targeting Universal Windows Platform, make sure that you have the Universal Windows Platform development workload installed on your Visual Studio 2017 dev environment.

Open the Visual Studio installer from the start screen or run the setup from the control panel and then click Modify, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will launch the Workloads screen. Check whether Universal Windows Platform development is checked. If it is unchecked...