I have a windows store app for Windows 8.1 - it's a specific app that is supposed to run only at one device. I deliver it to client via AppDevPackage and it's installed / updated via Power Shell script.
The app works fine when developer license is valid on the device but this license shouldn't be used in production enviroment. Also there is need to renew this license occasionaly (that's very inconvinient).
I know that's obsolete technology, but my question is, what should I do to get rid of the need of having developer license at this device (and to keep posibility of publishing the app via AppDevPackage)?
Please help ;)
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I have developed a windows phone 8 application. I have a developer account and unlocked device. Now I'm able to deploy/install the application in my phone through windows phone development sdk.
Now I want to install this application in another device ( a device of my friend, who is in different location). I don't want to put this application in the app store. I want to mail the XAP file only to him. So is there any other way to install this (XAP file) application in his mobile.
I am looking forward your responses.
Thanks.
Answer 1:
Your friend has to unlock his device with a developer account in order to install it. Can use the "Application Deployment Tool" to install the XAP.
(This goes well only if your friend is a developer)
Answer 2: (Easiest way for your friend to install)
You can release a beta in the store, and include the Microsoft ID of your friend as a beta tester. And after releasing the app, you can email the link to your friend. Beta release is fast and it usually goes live within 1 hour.
You could use the "Targeted distribution to customers with specified email addresses".
That means that you will publish the app on the store, but it will only be available for the users that you want.
I am having windows phone 8 silverlight app. I need to publish it on Windows store. Can you please provide or explain step by step guide to publish this app in store.
Stackoverflow link discussed already. But after changing the values in files manually what need to do after tha?
I followed the steps mention here, but i am getting certification issue after submitting app.
This is a guide to publishing applications in Windows Store. Important -Silverligth app supported only Windows Phone and not supported Windows 8 and Windows 10. For supported Windows RT you need to make migration to universal app.
Windows App certification kit is very nice utility. Before publishing app use this app for analysis. When i run analysis of my XAP file using this utility, I found that i was using some default images that was main issue in certification failure. Now i am updating that. And will let you if this works or not.
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)
It works a bit different with tablets than with phones. If you don't need debugging - you can simply copy the appx onto the tablet and install it there. If you want to debug - you need to install remote debugging tools on it and specify in VS that you want to debug on a remote machine (click the little drop down arrow on the button here:
I want to make windows phone 8 app.In which i want to integrate online builder tool to create online mobile app and download xap file on device.is there any API present for it ?
That is not supported on Windows Phone. You can only sideload apps under certain conditions (such as having a dev account or I think a max of 2 apps).
Either way, you have to install it using MS tools, there are no API's available
No there isn't. There are a few options for installing xap files.
Install it in a developer unlocked device using the SDK tools
Publish it as a beta, selected users can download it from the store
Publish it the normal way (duh)
Company deployment.
Have a look here: http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/App_deployment_options_for_Windows_Phone
Can I develop my custom private Metro-style applications and deploy them directly to my customers, bypassing the market?
Will I be able to provide my customers with their custom-made applications in Metro-style?
For instance, in Android you can transfer an APK file.
On Technet there's an article on sideloading Metro style applications. Basically, the requirements are as follows:
The application must be cryptograhically signed.
The computer it will be installed to must trust the signing certificate.
The Allow all trusted applications to install group policy setting must be enabled.
To run the application the computer must be joined to a domain.
As long as your customers are in enterprise environment these requirements shouldn't be a problem. Outside enterprise environment you'll need to distibute your apps through the Windows store.
At least with the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 the sideloading also works on machines with a valid developer licence. I couldn't find any official info on that but this might stay the case with the final release as well for the purpose of testing the apps.
EDIT:
Some additional info has just been published. Key points:
Sideloading will be enabled in Windows 8 Enterprise Edition and Windows 8 Server editions. It is also currently enabled in both Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 Beta.
In other editions of Windows 8 a special product key will need to be activated to enable sideloading. It might not be necessary for the computer to be joined to a domain in this case.
Sort of … not really.
Windows 8 Enterprise edition will have the ability to side-load Metro-style apps. The idea is that you can deploy an internal app to your enterprise. The implication is that non-enterprise editions that will come with your consumer/retail PC or tablet will likely not support side-loading of Metro-style apps.
See No escape from the store for the plebs!.
I don't see why not. I've played with the Visual Studio 11 beta on Windows 8, and one of the templates is for a Metro app. It was just a .NET executable. So, as long as you can deploy that to your machines just like you do today, there should be no problem.