Hi sdmandrell,
If you want to use the emulation, your computer must have Hyper-V, which you can refer to following link.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228280.aspx#HyperV
But according to your description, you don't want to use the Emulator when developing Windows app. Please connect to your device directly, which needn't Emulator. When you connect to your devices, it will listed in Run tool as below image shows.

Best Regards,
Weiwei