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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:57:02+00:00

I have Visual Studio 11 Beta (Express for Windows 8) installed in my Windows

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I have Visual Studio 11 Beta (Express for Windows 8) installed in my Windows 8 VM. When I press New Project, I can see a lot of templates for Metro apps… but nothing else. I can’t find templates for making any sort of desktop application. In particular I would like to be able to make a WPF project in C#. How should I go about this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, the “Express for Windows 8” version only allows you to create Metro apps. From the product page:

    You can use the tools in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Windows 8 to create Metro style apps for Windows 8. The tools include a fully featured code editor, a powerful debugger, a focused profiler, and rich language support that you can use to build apps that written in HTML5, JavaScript, C++, C# or Visual Basic. Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Windows 8 also includes a device simulator that you can use to test Metro style apps on multiple form factors.

    If you want to build other types of apps, you need to download the beta of Visual Studio 11 Professional. (I expect there’ll probably be a plain “Visual C# Express 11” which allows for WinForms and WPF apps when it’s non-beta… there’s going to be a Release Candidate soon, so that may come with a suitable Express version.)

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