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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Packaging your UWP app


Similar to the apps distributed for Windows 8, UWP apps are packaged and distributed in a specific format. Once packaged, they can be uploaded to the Windows Store, or distributed to a non-developer workstation. The information contained in the package includes the capabilities and contracts that your app uses as well as information on the app user tile, the splash screen, and more.

This recipe will show you what you need to do to package your UWP app so that it is ready for the outside world to use.

Getting ready

As before, we will continue to use the RSSReader app referenced in the Using the UWP app simulator recipe. Feel free to substitute an app of your choice if you have one available.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to package your UWP app:

  1. Open the Package.appxmanifest file from Solution Explorer.

  2. Examine the fields in the Application tab. Add a space in the Display name field so that it reads as RSS Reader instead of SplitApp.

  3. Add a useful description in...