Can I create a OneNote page or can I make a call to just open OneNote from a button in a Mobile Phone 8.1 app? I am using Visual Studio 2013 with the Phone 8.1 addin
Looks like you have to authenticate using the API and it writes to the cloud. Only need local access to OneNote on the device. App will be used in areas where OneDrive access will not be available to write to.
All OneNote notebooks and pages on WP are already stored on OneDrive (or Sharepoint & OneDrive for Business). There is no "local" notebooks on WP.
Our APIs are only web-APIs that support creating pages on OneDrive and require Microsoft Account authentication.
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Like this many desktop software have external link to their download pages in Windows Store. So we bought access to Windows Store and until Windows Store allows desktop applications (which will happen with Windows 10 I think) we want to have link to our download page. But we can't figure out how to publish download link only. Because it require package which require Metro project in Visual Studio I think? So are we need to create empty project in Visual Studio or something like that?
See Windows Store onboarding for desktop apps for the official docs and step-by-step
As a basic summary, you'll need to create a desktop dashboard account and certify the app by passing the desktop Windows App Certification Kit tests
You'll also need a Windows Store company account. This will let you log into the Windows Store dashboard and submit the certified app for submission.
Add in the metadata (name, description, link, etc.) and submit!
We paid a developer account in Windows Store (enterprise).
We created a Cordova 3.7 app for Windows Phone 8.1 and even we could test directly on a phone with Windows 8.1 from Visual Studio 2013 and everything worked in the hardware.
therefore, We begin to fill in the details for the App We need to publish in the store.
There is a section in which we are asked to upload a packaged App so here We have the chance of selecting it on the disk.
Our problem is We don't know how to create the pack and where in the disk Visual Studio left it.
We started to search in msdn.microsoft.com and these are the ideas we could get (but still couldn't make a pack):
1) Every where in MSDN they talk about a STORE option on Visual Studio. We can see this option in the ppal menu but all its options are disabled.
But in a forum, after searching a lot, We could figure out that this is normal for Cordova Apps on Visual Studio 2013 because they are considered as Silverlight Apps.
Then We find out again a doc in MSDN about uploading Silverlight Apps to Win Store. They say this kind of Apps must be packed and uploaded by hand.
2) So We focused in find out how to prepare a Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app for publishing.
This is a link in MSDN :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn655122(v=vs.105).aspx
But a new problem comes out, We don’t have any Package.appxmanifest.xml file in our project but only have aWMAppManifest.xml file.
We finally find out only Windows Phone 8.1 projects on Visual Studio have the Package.appxmanifest.xml file and it seems that my Cordova Project was generated like a kind of a Win Phone 8.0, what is not that bad because we want our App to be supported by Windows P. 8.0 and 8.1 devices.
But at the end of all this journey, we are stuck at the first step again. So we realized we don't know how pack a Windows Phone 8 (Cordova) App in order to be uploaded to Windows Store.
How and where Visual Studio 2013 make the pack and what is the extension name of this file.
The App, as I said, is ok and can be deployed and executed OK in a real phone from Visual Studio (run button)
Sorry, We know the question is large but We wanted to clear what We had reached so you know What We are asking and What We could have done bad just in case.
Thanks in advance, We think a lot of people could profit of the answer of experts in this matter because a summary is needed, the info in MSDN seem disperse.
You cannot upload a Windows Phone Silverlight xap to the Windows Store, only to the Windows Phone store. To upload to the Windows Phone store you won't need the Package.appxmanifest for a Windows Phone 8 app (only for a Windows Phone 8.1 app).
You'll upload the xap file created when you build for release with the normal build process. You don't need to do any further modifications for a Silverlight app.
You can create either Windows Phone or Windows Store apps with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
Use Project->Store->Create App Packages.. from visual studio menu.
http://taco.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tutorial-package-publish-readme/#package-the-windows-version-of-your-app
Create App pakages option is disabled..
Cuz i have to upload my app package so as to publish it.. so am stuck with it.
i Have also logind with my developer microsoft account to0.
Edit:
actually in Visual Studio 2013,
in PROJECT > STORE> (all the options available are disabled)... so this the problem.
If your app is Windows Phone 8.1 App, you can create appx package using project -> store in vs.
But if your app is Windows Phone 8 App or Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 App, you don't need to create appx file, the only file you need is xap file in Bin/Release(or Debug) folder. When you publish it, just upload your xap file is OK.
Happened the same to me, and (after 20 minutes of VS restarts), I realized the Project needs to be selected instead of the Solution at the Solution Explorer.
This way all Store options are enabled again.
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
I am new to Windows Phone development. I want to create a file explorer app. Please suggest a path to do so.
You cannot make a file explorer in windows phone. The only files your app allowed access to are limited to files created by your app or shared to your app by another app through file association.
You just don't have the rights to access any content in the outer scope of your app, by exception of some windows apis you can call to use some of the functionality provided by them.