Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications.

This post details the process of building and testing Windows 8 "Metro Style" applications using Team Foundation Build 2011 Express. It outlines the necessity of a Windows 8 machine for building these applications, the limitations of the Team Foundation Service build hosted service for this task, and the steps for acquiring a developer license. It also covers configuring the on-premise Team Foundation Build server to run interactively for test execution, creating and checking in Metro Style projects with their associated .pfx files, and installing these certificates on build machines. Crucially, it explains how to modify the build definition's automated test configuration to correctly identify and run tests packaged as .appx files instead of the traditional .dll pattern.