VS Express 2013 Error DEP1700: The recipe file "xxxxx.appxrecipe" does not exist. You may need to build your project

Question

I just repaired/reinstalled my Windows 8.1 PC, and then I install VS 2013 Express. But every-time I build my projects (all of my projects), it threw me this error :

Error 1 Error : DEP1700 : The recipe file "xxxxx.appxrecipe" does not exist. You may need to build your project.

I've tried these step:

• Repairing my VS 2013 Express
• Uninstalling VS 2013 Express-Restarting PC-Installing VS 2013 Express
• Freshly check-out my projects and build it from beginning.

But none of those are works for me. Anyone can help me? Because before reinstalling my PC everything works fine.

Answer 1

I had this same issue with a Xamarin Forms application when I attempted to run the UWP instance on my local machine. After a bit of digging it turns out that in Configuration Manager (Right click solution file -> Configuration Manager) BUILD was unticked while DEPLOY was ticked. Never going to work as the project can't deploy if it hasn't built!