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Xamarin 4 By Example

By : Engin Polat, Mark Radacz
Book Image

Xamarin 4 By Example

By: Engin Polat, Mark Radacz

Overview of this book

The mobile app market is increasing exponentially every year. Xamarin Studio with its modern and powerful IDEs makes creating applications a lot easier by simplifying the development process. Xamarin will allow you and your team to create native applications by taking advantage of one of the most evolved programming language in the world: C#. This book will provide you with the basic skills you need to start developing mobile apps using C# and Xamarin. By working through the examples in each chapter, you will gain hands-on experience of creating a complete app that is fully functional by all means. Finally, you will learn to publish the app you created on the app market. Each project in this book will take you one step closer to becoming a professional app developer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Xamarin 4 By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Publishing to the Windows Store


The third store we need to publish our application on is Microsoft's Windows Store.

The steps for publishing our application to the Windows Store are not so different to the other stores' publishing steps.

We need a Windows Developer Account and can easily obtain one from the https://developer.microsoft.com/registration page. We should follow the instructions on the page and pay a one-off fee of $19 to get a developer account. This is the cheapest price for a developer account on all app stores.

After creating a Windows Developer Account, we should go to Visual Studio and focus on the UWP (Universal Windows Platform) project in our solution; we can find it in the Solution Explorer panel.

We'll right-click on the UWP project and click on the Store | Associate app with the Store menu.

A new window appears and lets us update one of our previously-created applications or create a new application, as shown in the following screenshot:

After selecting an existing application...