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
| Run Windows Store apps on the local machine | Run your Windows Store app on the Visual Studio device. |
| Run Windows Store apps in the simulator | Run your Windows Store app in a desktop window that simulates Windows 8.x Store functionality such as touch and orientation. |
| Run Windows Store apps on a remote machine | Deploy and run your Windows Store app on a device that is connected to the Visual Studio machine over a network or directly through an Ethernet cable. |
| Run Windows Phone apps in the emulator | Run your Windows Store app in a desktop window that simulates a Windows Phone. |
| Deploy Windows Store apps from Visual Studio | Deploy and register your Windows Store app on a device for ad-hoc testing. |


