Running Windows Store apps from Visual Studio

Windows Store apps run on a broad range of devices, and Visual Studio provides you with a number of ways to run and interact with those apps. The "F5" experience is enhanced to make it easy to debug, profile, and test apps during development.

In this section

Running Windows Store apps on the local machine	Run your app on the Visual Studio device.
Running Windows Store apps in the simulator	Run your app in a desktop window that simulates Windows Store functionality such as touch and orientation.
Running Windows Store apps on a remote machine	Deploy and run your app on a device that is connected to the Visual Studio machine over a network or directly through an Ethernet cable.
Deploying Windows Store apps from Visual Studio	Deploy and register your app on a device for ad-hoc testing.