Submitting to the Windows Store

Once your app is finished, you can submit it to the Windows Store via items on the Store menu in Visual Studio Express, or via the Project, Store menu in other editions of Visual Studio. The Visual Studio integration works in concert with pages on the Windows Dev Center website to help you complete your submission. Before doing this, however, you have some tasks to complete:

Set up your developer account at http://dev.windows.com, get it verified, and fill out your payout and tax information. This can take a couple of days for an individual account, or a couple of weeks for a business account.

Reserve your app name with the Windows Store, as it requires each app’s name to be unique. You can reserve names at ...

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