Can't open Windows Phone 8.1 project in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

Question

Just yesterday i have installed Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015 on my working station. Everything goes fine until i tried to open my Universal Windows Store project. Projects what using Windows Phone 8.1 SDK isn't loaded and requiring an update.

One or more projects require a platform SDK (WindowsPhoneApp, Version=8.1).

Link from Studio to download missing SDK is redirecting me to www.microsoft.com. I tried to install everything i could find referring to this SDK, but couldn't solve this problem. On other machines everything work just fine. What should i do with this problem?

Answer 1

When you do an install of Visual Studio 2015, you need to do a custom install. One of the selections should be Windows 8.1 Phone. If you do not check this box, the SDK will not be available. To install Open your control panel and go to Programs and features. Scroll down to Visual Studio 2015 and click change. A Visual Studio installer will pop up. Click Modify and install 8.1 Universal.