So you got that shiny new Surface device today? I'm sure you spent the first few hours just opening it up, setting your personal experiences to your desire, re-installing and discovering new apps.
But you are a developer and now you want to see how your app looks on this great device.Here are some tips to get you quickly started.
Setting up the tools One thing to keep in mind is that Surface is NOT a full 'desktop' machine and runs on an ARM processor. This means to that you cannot install Visual Studio directly on the Surface RT device. You will need to still ensure that you have a full development environment set up. But the first thing you will need is to get the remote developer tools for Visual Studio *for your target remote device* architecture. For Surface RT, this is the ARM tools.
You can get them here: Microsoft Visual Studio Downloads. Scroll down a bit and look in the "Add ...
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