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The Simulator for testing apps is not working. It can be launched but you cannot exit. You may exit the development environment by closing Visual Studio but the simulator hangs around. Apps open in the simulator does not work, or work sporadically. Here are details of OS and the Visual Studio versions in which this was noted: Here is the abandoned Simulator: I will be upgrading to the next version of Visual Studio Community 2017 shown here:

Verily, I say unto you, out of chaos a star is born Microsoft created a number of OSs to address diverse devices it had to contend with. This has resulted in a number of OSs with their own toolset and deployment strategies: such as, Windows CE Windows Embedded Windows Mobile Windows Desktop Windows Server Xbox OS Windows 10 has boldly replaced all of them with UAP , the Windows 10 Universal Application Platform. With UAP you need only to build once and it would run on any Windows 10 device. However devices are not built the same way across device types. In addition to Windows 10 UAP you would also need to target your application to specific device family be it desktop, be it mobile, or something different. So one way to address this is by adding reference to extension SDK for the device family. Here is how you would add a reference to Windows Mobile extension SDK from an article by Nick Randolph   In a real world diverse devices exist with their...