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.
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When debugging a Windows Phone 8.1 application (working in Visual Studio), with the phone connected to a PC, is there a way to browse and download files from the application's temporary file folder ( Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.currenttemporaryFolder) - or other application folders for that matter?
Updated to incorporate #Youval_Bronicki 's comment
There are several clients available:
Windows Phone Power Tools
ISO Store Spy
Isolated Storage Explorer tool for Windows Phone 8 (a command line tool).
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 have a universal windows store project. I want to access shared files which are accessible by both windows 8.1 and wp 8.1.
StorageFolder storageFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
StorageFile sampleFile = await storageFolder.GetFileAsync("text.txt");
I tried this but its not working. Location is wrong. Any idea what is the location of shared files ?
I think the term you're looking for is "roaming" rather than "shared".
If you want to share user data between the same app running on both Windows and Windows Phone then put the data in the ApplicationData.RoamingFolder. LocalFolder files are local to the current system. RoamingFolder files will roam across systems, including between the same app on Windows and Windows Phone.
See Guidelines for roaming app data and Accessing app data with the Windows Runtime
The "Shared" project is a compile time concept. Files in that project are merged with the platform specific projects at compile time. When building, Visual Studio uses all of the files from the target platform project plus all of the files in the Shared project and treats them as a single project. Content files in the Shared project will be included in the appx for both platforms and are available at runtime via the ms-appx: protocol or the Package.InstalledLocation folder.
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!
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.