How to install Windows Phone 8 workload in Visual Studio 2017?

Question

I have installed Visual Studio 2017 in my computer and after installing when I tried to open my Windows Phone 8 project, I got an error that Windows Phone 8 SDK is missing. So, I right-click on the project and clicked on install missing feature but it shows 0 Kb every time. So, can some suggest me steps to install Windows Phone 8 SDK and tools/templates in Visual Studio 2017? I also tried to install Standalone SDK but it was still giving me some JSON Package error and in Visual Studio it was showing my project name.csproj error: Operation Cancelled.

Please suggest some solution so I can work on my Windows Phone 8 project in VS2017.

Answer 1

Looks like Microsoft removed the support for developing Windows Store apps that targets Windows and Windows Phone 8/8.1 from Visual Studio 2017.

See this Visual Studio 2017 compatibility page. In short, it says "Windows Store app development is not available."

You can help changing Microsoft mind by voting to bring it back.