3. Generate your app - GameSalad Customer Service

Create a Folder on your Desktop and name it anything you’d like. For this example we named ours CordovaTest.
Press your Windows key, type in “cmd”, and hit enter to launch the command prompt. Type cd and drag the folder you created into the Command Prompt then hit enter.
Run the following command using whatever you want your app folder to be called (we used “MyApp”), Bundle ID, and the name of your app.
```
cordova create FolderName BundleID AppName
```
Change the directory to the folder you just created.
```
cd FolderName
```
Run the following command to add the Windows platform to your Cordova app folder.
```
cordova platform add windows --save
```
Run the following command to check that you have everything needed installed.
```
cordova requirements
```
Navigate to the app folder you created with Cordova.
Add the HTML5 folder that you generated and downloaded earlier to your app folder.
Delete the “www” folder that is contained in the app folder and rename your HTML5 folder “www”.
Open your renamed folder. Delete the files “sample-frame”, “sample-index” and “sample-inline”. Keep “sample-cordova-index”.
Rename the “sample-cordova-index” file to “index”.
Run the following command to update the Windows platform within your Cordova app folder.
```
cordova platform update windows --save
```
Run the following command to build your project to the Windows platform.
```
cordova build windows
```
Run the following command to launch your app.
```
cordova run windows
```
If you receive a message that you need a developer certificate or account, log into your Windows Developer account. Powershell will run to install a certificate in your app. Type “y” and press enter to continue.
If you are given a success message press enter to launch your app immediately.
Your app is now installed on your computer and you can search in Windows for it by using the app name.