Deploying your Universal Application (UWP) on only one platform/device type using TargetDeviceFamily

What I want to do is deploy my Universal Application (UWP) on a single platform (Desktop in my case) at first, then afterward deploy it on another device family. You can find all the device familes Here.

When you create a UWP application find the file called Package.appxmanifest open it with notepad, and by default under Dependencies you should see this:

 <Dependencies>
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

Which is probably topically what you would want to, which is to have TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" which means that it targets all of the Windows 10 devices!

However in my case I just want to target the desktop app, thus I need to set  TargetDeviceFamily Name to Windows.Desktop as follow:

 <Dependencies>
    <!--<TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />-->
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Desktop" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

And there you have it.

Targeting different platform type:

Here are the different Names that you can set TargetDeviceFamily, so that it only works on:

• Mobile

 <Dependencies>
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Mobile" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

• Desktop

 <Dependencies>
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Desktop" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

• Xbox

 <Dependencies>
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Xbox" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

• Iot

 <Dependencies>
    <TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Iot" MinVersion="10.0.0.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.0.0" />
  </Dependencies>

Good luck,

Msdn reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn986903.aspx