I just got my first Windows tablet, an Advan W80 and when I plug in the USB cable, the PC does nothing.
Is there some kind of setting I need to set on the tablet to get my PC to recognise this so I can do development on it?
Install VS 
Invest in a OTG cable
I have VS 2013 and 2015 on my Windows 8.1 tablet. I was trying to test on my Windows 7 desktop but it didn’t detect anything being connected.
I’ll try plugging into the Windows 8.1 machine and see if that see it. 
With alot of the mobile type devices you need a USB OTG cable for them to be visible…
Not with Android
I only received a USB charging cable with it and a USB OTG breakout with 2 ports on it. They are type A so I would need a type A to type A for this to work? Correct?
Sounds like A - A will be the ticket.
@ Dave McLaughlin - I connect using a wireless connection from my windows 8 machine to a windows tablet. It is pretty cool. You can set breakpoints when you debug and have the keyboard on the windows 8 machine. I am just leaving for work but I will get additional info if someone else has not jumped in.
@ Dave McLaughlin - If you mean you want to deploy and debug Windows modern apps on the tablet, generally that isn’t done via USB, as you would with a phone. Instead, you can connect to the device remotely over the network, and use the “Remote Machine” option (you’ll need to configure the IP of the remote machine you want to target) option in the toolbar to debug the program on your tablet.
Yeah, I did a scour around on Google and found that I need the remote debugger on the tablet so already installed and going to try this out tomorrow.
Also looks like Express versions don’t support remote debugging so unlike Android I need to spend money to do development.
Not as simple as Android so a learning curve
Can you point me to where that’s documented? Are you sure you have the correct express version installed?
If you are a student, an individual, or your team is smaller than 5 people, or you’re working on an open source project, you can also use VS2013 Community Edition, which is essentially the same feature set as Pro, for free:
[quote]Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?
A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:
•Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
•An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
•For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
For more information, please refer to the Visual Studio Community 2013 License Terms and the Visual Studio Licensing Whitepaper.
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Even cooler, VS 2013 Community supports extensions, so if you’re a fan of R# or similar tools, you can use those, too.
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Mmm. I have the community edition but I can’t see how to setup remote debugging on it.
I’ll have a dig around on Google to see how this is setup.
OK, I finally got it to work and I can now run and debug apps on the tablet.
Bit long winded compared to how I have been doing Android apps but at least now I can get things working.
Cheers all for your help.