How to Distribute Compiled Windows 8 Metro Applications without Windows Store?

Each machine that wants to install the application will need a developer license. See this page for some details.

When you have your app ready:

  1. select Store->Create App Package
  2. Select Build a package to use locally only
  3. Follow the prompts

This will create a package in whatever folder you specified. You should be able to copy that to another developer-licensed machine and install it.

There will be a batch file called Add-AppxDevPackage in the directory. Running it will install the app. It must be run as an admininistrator.

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