Initially I was able to install on my lumia 620 apps made using app studio.
Now I'm getting the following error.
"We haven’t been able to contact the Microsoft Corporation company account to make sure you can install this app. Make sure you’re connected to a mobile or WiFi network, and we’ll try again as soon as we can.
Unfortunately, it may take a couple of days before we can make that connection. If you continue to have trouble contact your company’s support person for help."
I'm in India and I'm using the same live account I used earlier.
Take a look at this : How do I get my app on my Windows Phone device?
It explains in details all the steps you need to do.
For Windows Phone 8.1
As well as various 3rd party QR Code readers you can use, you can also use Bing vision by doing the following. Open your camera on your Windows phone. Press the “Lenses” button Search icon( Sometimes the lenses button won’t be bound to your screen, you can do this by pressing the three dots and adding it to your bindings ) From here, a new menu will appear with various lenses listed. Choose Bing Vision.
Remember that by clicking “install” you download the app. By clicking Tap to open, you add the company certificate. It pushes you back to “Install company app” at that point, but you do not have to do it a second time. At this point, go to your app menu and you will see your app. Point the phone’s camera at the QR code that opens with the certificate link, and the phone will automatically scan it. Click “add” and the certificate is successfully installed once it returns to the original Install the certificate page.
...... CAN'T UNDERSTAND THIS FULLY. PLEASE EXPLAIN
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I want to remove/hide my app from the public Windows Phone Store.
In the Windows Phone Dev Center, on the app page, there are two different options:
Hide app in Store
Unpublish
What is the difference between these two? How should I choose, or maybe do both?
Hide from Store: The app is in a unlisted state, this means users can't find it using built-in seach function of the Store, moreover the app won't apper in Store spotlight. Actually users are still able to download/rate it and, if search engines (Google, Bing...) indexed the Store page, users will easily reach that page.
Unpublish: It really removes the app package you previously uploaded, so that new users won't be able to download it. However,
neither this option can perform a forced uninstall of the app from
users who have it on their phones. If they decide to uninstall it,
they can reinstall as your app still appear under "My
Apps" section of the Store.
So I would exclude the first option, usually it's used when you want to limit distribution of the app. Go with the second one, but keep in mind that old users can use the app whenever they want.
Hiding an app only removes it from the search. Someone who knows the direct url to your app will still be able to download it. Unpublishing removes the app entirely, making it impossible to be found or downloaded.
If you unpublish the app, it'll be hidden de facto, so you don't have to do both.
I've developed a company app for Windows Phone 8, and have gone through all the recommended steps to set it up for installation. I have a Symantec code-signing certificate, and I have generated my Application Enrollment Token and my signed XAP, which I am hosting in a public folder on OneDrive. I generated the XAP using the BuildMDILXap.ps1 script, which ran without errors. I haven't bothered with a company hub app, since we're only distributing a single app.
The AET loads OK on the phone, and asks if I would like to add the workplace account. I click "add", the dialogue box disappears, and no error comes up. There is no confirmation message, however I don't know if I should expect one.
When I load up the XAP, I get the message "Can't install company app. There's a problem with this company app. Contact your company's support person for help."
The phone has been developer unlocked (which of course isn't necessary), and I've had the app side-loaded and running on it successfully before. It was uninstalled before attempting the above, however.
I'm not sure what to do from here. I've tried recompiling and re-signing the XAP and re-generating the AET, but nothing seems to work.
After fruitlessly trying to solve this problem, I found a workaround that does what I need.
It turns out that you can post apps to the public app store, but hide them from searches, essentially making them private to anyone that doesn't have the link. That solves my first problem, getting the app published in a way that my client can access without me needing to have developer licenses for each of their phones.
The downside with that solution is that you still have to wait a few days for an update to be approved, which isn't the greatest when you're still beta-testing and need to make quick changes. However, Microsoft also have a beta program for Windows Phone apps. By designating the app as Beta, submission happens automatically within 2 hours, but you have to restrict access to specific Microsoft accounts. The latter isn't a problem because the number of devices using the app is relatively small.
This removes the need for a corporate app store in my case, and saves the expense of a certificate and the fiddling around that goes with it.
I need help on how to build an app for windows 8 phone which is exactly similar to Kid's Corner application which is available with NOKIA LUMIA 520.
I registered with the App Studio of Microsoft and tried to create a simple application like album but as a nubee I am not aware of all fundamentals and so need a simple guide.
Here is what I want my application should do:
Once you launch it, you can not go back until you lock phone and unlock it using password. same way as Kid's Corner.
I want that the app user should be able to see videos and photos only which the app is allowed to access.
User should be able to Zoom photos and play pause videos and using touch-slide can view the next one.
User should not be able to delete any files.
Thanks for pointing me to the exact resource where I can find some things which are easy to understand and simple to do :) .
Thanks a lot!
EDIT:
Is it possible to get the source code of Kid's Zone/Corner application?
1. Once you launch it, you can not go back until you lock phone and unlock it using password. same way as Kid's Corner.
This is impossible to lock user into your app. User always can exit or suspend your app using hardware buttons, you just can handle back button tab, but user also can touch to startmenu button or can hold to backbutton.
And you cant get kid zone's source code, its part of Windows Phone OS.
We are distributing the company app and application enrollment token through our company portal. We observe the following behavior. When the user downloads the AETX through the IE 10 that comes with Windows phone 8 there is a prompt that comes as "tap to install", then a prompt to install the certificate automatically appears. After installing the certificate the IE browser tab just stays there. It does not move to my original web site.
We tried to perform the action on the page using various standard technique like loading the content in a Iframe and opening a windows etc. But apparently we see that whether we try to open it in IFRAME or new windows, the download link for ATEX and XAP opens in the same. It does not eve create a new tab/page.
Every time the user has to click the back button after install to reach the main site. This is very annoying for users.
Any help/suggestion would be of immense help
I would suggest you 3 checklists:-
Its recommended by the Wp8 enrollment Application file download should not be coming as "chunked" in HTTP protocol. Please ensure it comes in one piece.
Try serving the XAP file without any Content-Type header (which by default is set to octet stream usually on the server end).
Try pushing your Enterprise app during the enrollment phase itself to avoid these complications. Its the best way to install the company app as a last step in the WAP Provisioning.
Thanks for the suggestion. I believe that is a default behavior of IE on WP8. I used this plug in to schedule the download one after another
http://johnculviner.com/jquery-file-download-plugin-for-ajax-like-feature-rich-file-downloads/
I developed a Windows Phone 8 App. But when I try to add it to the store the option "Associate app to the store" does not show (could not post pics because i´m new here).
The options does not appear when I right click on the project AND it also does not work when I click on the Visual Studio 2012 menu PROJECT > STORE > (the option to associate the app shows as disabled)
Also I tried to add the tag manually on my WMAppManifest.xml file with no avail either. In this particular case, the app wont start in the emulator. It keeps on loading forever.
The current status to my developer account is "need verification" - meaning: I need to wait to the credit card transaction to pop out on my bank to input the secret code. Is that the case? Is that why I cant associate the app and why it does not show on Visual Studio 2012?
That menu is only meant for Windows 8 apps, not Windows Phone 8 apps. You should use http://dev.windowsphone.com for all your windows phone store activities. Again, VS2012 doesn't have any built-in integration with the WP8 store, just the Win8 store.