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The Windows Store is a digital distribution platform for Windows applications. It distributes Universal Windows Platform Applications (AppX packages) and legacy Windows Phone apps (XAP packages) but not legacy desktop applications (such as MSI installers). This tag should not be used for platform questions (APIs, etc.) - use 'uwp' instead.

Legacy desktop Windows applications (including WinForms, WPF, MFC, etc.) can be submitted to the Windows Store after they have been packaged as Universal Windows packages via the Desktop Bridge.

The Windows Store is the primary way to distribute Windows 10 apps to consumers and businesses, but apps can also be side-loaded (directly installed) on most devices via enterprise deployment, web download, etc.

Developers sign up and submit apps to the Windows Store via the developer portal, and consumers can browse and acquire apps via the Windows Store app on their Windows 10 devices or via the consumer-facing website.

The tag should only be used for issues pertaining to the Store itself (app submissions, licensing, in-app purchases, etc.) and not for any issues with the Universal Windows Platform (APIs, runtime behaviour, etc.) unless they specifically interact with Windows Store services. Use the tag (or a more specific tag, like ) for issues with the platform.

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Thread.Sleep replacement in .NET for Windows Store

Thread.Sleep doesn't seem to be supported in .NET for Windows Store apps. For example, this System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); will compile when targeting any .NET Framework (2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5), but not when targeting .NET for Windows Store…
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How to uninstall an app that another user installed?

I keep hitting this problem when I try to debug my Windows 8 apps and there is a copy already installed on another user account: DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Another user has already installed a packaged version of this app. An…
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Retrieve the Current App version from Package

While I can get the assembly version using the following code var assembly = typeof(App).GetTypeInfo().Assembly; var assemblyVersion = assembly.GetCustomAttribute().Version; I would like to retrieve the…
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How to Distribute Compiled Windows 8 Metro Applications without Windows Store?

I am just curious if there is a way to package up a Windows 8 Metro application to distribute it to others with the Windows 8 Developer Preview installed? It would be nice to be able to allow someone to just download and install, rather than…
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UWP app -Invalid package family name, after update certificate

I created app for uwp (win 10 desktop). I could not build package for store. I received an error: it is necessary to update the certificate. I have updated certificate and build my package. But when I upload the package to the store, I get the…
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How to calculate PublisherID from Publisher?

I'd like to know something about Windows Store and APPX package internals. The package.appxmanifest has an element that has a package name, publisher and version attributes, for example
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"Swing-Shell" java.lang.InternalError: Could not initialize COM: HRESULT=0x80010106

I have a Java 9 app that I'm trying to package for the Windows Store. The strange thing is that it works as expected when I run the exe-launcher directly, but I get the following strange error when I run the launcher via the APPX package: Exception…
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Mouse cursor is not showing in windows store game developing using monogame

I am developing a game for windows store (desktops) using monogame framework. everything else is working excellent except the Mouse cursor which is working well but not showing at time of playing game. protected override void Update(GameTime…
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Handle Swipe Up, Swipe Down, Swipe Left & Swipe Right Gestures in a WinRT app

I have the following code: public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); this.ManipulationStarting += MainPage_ManipulationStarting; this.ManipulationStarted += MainPage_ManipulationStarted; this.ManipulationInertiaStarting +=…
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How to retrieve the Microsoft Store ID key?

I'm trying to learn how to retrieve the Microsoft Store ID key. For this, I followed the examples provided by Microsoft in Windows Universal Samples. I tried to use the Business to Business scenario (scenario 7). I already published a sample App and…
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Windows Runtime methods cannot be generic - Reasons, Workarounds, Alternatives?

Here is an Interface, taken from my attempt to port MemBus, an Event Aggregator I maintain, to the Windows runtime world: public interface ISubscriber { IDisposable Subscribe(Action subscription); #if WINRT …
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Windows 8 Store certification for a Windows Desktop App written in Java

I have a program that is written in Java and is wrapped by an installer. It requires Java 1.7. If I run the certification with "Windows App Certification" it passes with one warning for the case Java 1.7 is already installed. But if Java 1.7 is not…
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Windows App Certification Kit - "did not detect any new application" , ClickOnce

I have a Windows Desktop App ( WPF + c++ ). I have just made a ClickOnce installer. I built it on Windows 7, but I want to certify the App for the Windows Store, so I'm running the Windows App Certification kit on Windows 8. The installer works…
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UWP store package build automation

Is there any way to automate package build for windows store? (I use jenkins on my build server) I'd like to prepare package for Windows Store without user interaction on a build server. Email verification code, building for .NET native and…
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Change Package version number of Windows Universal App for Windows Phone 8.1 app version while publishing

After migrating my app from Windows Phone 8.0 to Windows Universal App 8.1, I had problems with Package version number. What I put in appxmanifest is 1.1.58.0. Creating App Package, I keep 1.1.58.0. When I upload to the dashboard it shows a…
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