I am using Visual Studio 2013 Professional (with a Store developer account connected) and I have a Windows 8.1 Lenovo tablet for which I'd like to try developing Store apps.
I am stuck right now because when I connect my tablet to my laptop (which has Visual Studio) using the USB port, and open "Windows Phone Development Registration" tool, my Windows tablet device is not recognized by it.
Any help in letting me know what I am missing would be greatly apprciated.
Thanks.
Windows systems aren't locked in the same way as Windows Phones are. You will need a free developer license to run development & test packages on the system, but don't need to use an external tool to generate it.
You can install a developer license with PowerShell by using the "Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration" cmdlet. If you create a package for testing in Visual Studio then the Add-AppDevPackage.ps1 script will request the developer license if the system doesn't already have one.
Visual Studio will also request a license for you if you run it on the local system or if you launch the app via the remote debugger.
Documentation links: Run Windows Store apps on a remote machine from Visual Studio, Deploy Windows Store apps from Visual Studio and Get a developer license (Store apps)