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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

Validating your Windows Store app


Every UWP app submitted to the Windows Store will be validated by Microsoft before being listed for the general public. Part of that validation process involves running the app through an automatic certification tool that Microsoft has included with Visual Studio. You should verify that your app passes the certification tool before beginning the Windows Store submission process.

Getting ready

You will need a packable UWP app to complete this recipe. You may either reuse the RSSReader app described in the Packaging your UWP app recipe, or use a UWP app of your own choice. Either way, ensure that you have a UWP app that is working correctly and deployable in Release mode.

How to do it…

The following steps need to be performed in order to validate your app for the Windows Store:

  1. From the Windows Start screen, launch the Windows App Cert Kit. (If you are following directly from the Packaging your UWP app recipe, you can launch the kit from the Package Creation Completed...