Upgrading Windows 8

This guide shows how to modify Windows 8 projects to upgrade from older versions of Cordova. Most of these instructions apply to projects created with an older set of command-line tools that precede the cordova CLI utility. See The Command-Line Interface for information how to update the version of the CLI.

Upgrade to 4.0.0 from 3.1.0 or later

For projects that were created with the cordova CLI:

  1. Update the cordova CLI version. See The Command-Line Interface.

  2. Run cordova platform update windows8.

For projects not created with the cordova CLI, run:

    bin\update <project_path>

Upgrade to 3.1.0

Cordova CLI support for Windows 8 was introduced in Cordova 3.1.0. To upgrade, we suggest creating a new Cordova CLI project and moving over all necessary assets.

Upgrade to 2.9.0 from 2.8.0

The following commands should be done from within Visual Studio to be sure that the any project references are updated/deleted.

  1. Remove cordova-2.8.0.js from the project's www directory.

  2. Add cordova.js file from the source to the project's www directory. (Note that the file no longer contains a version number in the filename.)

  3. Build and test!

Upgrade to 2.8.0 from 2.7.0

The following commands should be done from within Visual Studio to be sure that the any project references are updated/deleted.

  1. Remove cordova-2.7.0.js from the project's www directory.

  2. Add cordova.js file from the source to the project's www directory. (Note that the file no longer contains a version number in the filename.)

  3. Build and test!