At the Build Conference this week, Microsoft handed out 5000 pre-configured Samsung tablets which included Windows 8 Developer Preview plus the development tools for building Metro style apps. They also made available an ISO containing the same bits. I suppose in a pinch you could develop apps on an underpowered tablet, but does anyone really want to write code on a tiny screen with an underpowered CPU?No worries though. We can still use a more powerful dev machine to run Visual Studio 11 and then use Remote Debugging to deploy and debug on the tablet. Here is a pic of my current environment I set up - To the left is an ExoPC slate running Windows 8, sitting on some handy tablet stands, with bluetooth keyboard and mouse. On the right is one of my dev machines which has been booted to a VHD image of Windows 8. We can use Remote Debugging inside VS11 by select Project Properties and entering the name of the slate machine on the network:
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