Publishing to the Windows Store

When your application is complete and you want to share it with the rest of the world (for profit or not), it is time to publish it into the Windows Store. That means you will need a developer’s account. The process itself is straightforward. Using your Microsoft Account, you register for access to the store as a developer. After your registration has been approved, you can reserve your application’s name, establish a price, and upload your packaged application into the store.

Once again, Visual Studio makes this process seamless with development. From within the IDE, you can select Store under the Project menu and execute all the activities needed to go from no account to published application (see Figure 23.25 ...

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