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Tips & Tricks – Restore Windows Start button and Start menu on Windows 8

Opposite the new, the man basically tries to adapt to change, but it often happens that the diversity creates frustration and one tries in every way to come back.

This concept is reflected in the large number of users who use the new Microsoft operating system Windows 8.

After years accustomed to having at the lower left corner the famous Start button, after you upgrade to Windows 8 you will find more and more of its lack.

As young and developer, my advice is to adapt, gradually you get used to, but if you cannot help I can only suggest a few ways to restore Start button and Start menu on Windows 8, and much more…

Below I list some of the tools at your disposal, the order does not establish any preference because I do not use them.

FREE

Win8 StartButton

Classic Shell

Pokki

PAY (free 30-day trial)

StartIsBack

Start8

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SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 – “The element “Deployment” in namespace “http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment” has invalid child element “AppExtra”. List of possible elements expected: “App”.”

The element “Deployment” in namespace “http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment” has invalid child element “AppExtra”. List of possible elements expected: “App”.

In Italian

L’elemento “Deployment” nello spazio dei nomi “http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment” ha un elemento figlio non valido “AppExtra”. Elenco di possibili elementi previsti: “App”.

Cause:
Installing the Windows Phone 8 SDK, the schema files of the previous version will update too. If you haven’t installed it and you want to work with Visual Studio 2010 you have an old version of schemas that not contains the <AppExtra> node, so the error appears because the xsd file cannot validate your WMAppManifest.xml file with the new lines

[sourcecode language=”xml”]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment" AppPlatformVersion="7.1">
<AppExtra xmlns="" AppPlatformVersion="8.0">
<Extra Name="Tiles"/>
</AppExtra>
[/sourcecode]

Solution:
Download and replace the following files inside you Visual Studio 2010 installation folder at the path like this:

C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\\Xml\\Schemas

Rename the Microsoft.Phone.PreImport.targets file in 

C:\\Program Files\\MSBuild\\Microsoft\\Silverlight for Phone\\v4.0

append “_” at the end of the filename: Microsoft.Phone.PreImport.targets_ (I’m searching other ways for this part of solution)

Close and re-open Visual Studio 2010 then Rebuild your solution.

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