Maybe the Windows Store is not as popular as its iOS and Android competitors, and the multitude of applications available is not so great, but this is an opportunity!
Now that you finished your Xamarin.Forms Windows Phone platform, let's see how to prepare it for publishing.
Microsoft currently has some different phone/tablet versions starting from Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Silverlight, Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT), Universal Windows, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
The Visual Studio template, as of the writing of this book, will create Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT), Windows 8.1, and Universal Windows projects along with a PCL core library, the iOS, and the Android projects. Xamarin additionally continues supporting the Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Silverlight project types.
For this recipe, we will configure and package the Windows Phone 8.1 application, but the settings and packaging is the same for all the Windows platforms.