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Publishing and Promoting

your App



Publishing Your software Process of publishing an application in the marketplace:

Support

Updating Your Application in the Windows PhoneMarketplace

Link to Your Application in the Windows Phone Marketplace

Catalog

Submit Your Application for Certification

Assemble the Prerequisites for Certification

Develop and Test Your Application

Register as a Windows Phone Developer



Register as a Windows Phone Developer

� App Hub is the website where you register

� App Hub is also where you submit and manage your applicationsfor distribution through the Windows Phone Marketplace.

� You should register for membership as a Windows Phone

developer before you begin creating applications because somedevelopment tasks, such as installing your application on a physicalphone for testing, require App Hub membership.

� For step-by-step instructions about how to register, see the AppHub Registration Walkthrough: http://create.msdn.com/en-

US/home/about/developer_registration_walkthrough

FAQ :http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206358



Develop and Test Your Application

� Developing Windows phone application discussed

earlier

� Two way to test application:By Windows phone Emulator

By a registered Windows phone

� Preparing Your Application Icons: Necessary for

validation



Assemble the Prerequisites for Certification

� After finish developing the program a .XAP file iscreated. Only this file is uploaded in App Hub.

� Along with .XAP file Following thing are needed:

� App name� Code name for AppHub

� Developers Name &contact information,

� Artwork (A kind of theme used for Windows phonemarketplace catalogue)

� App price� App Screenshot

� App description and

� App category



An ill str ti n f s issi n nd c rtific ti n

r c ss:



The following is a brief outline of the submission and

certification process:� S

ign in to your account in App Hub.� Create a new application submission.

� Upload the application XAP file.

� Enter the metadata for the application, such as title, description, category, and iconography.

� Select the distribution countries/regions and pricing.

� The XAP file is validated while you are entering metadata.

� If the XAP file validation succeeds, the submission process continues to Step 8; otherwise, the

process terminates and you get a notification. Select the option to publish immediately afterpassing the certification process or to wait until you decide to publish.

� The XAP file is repackaged as described in Section 4.1.2.

� The repackaged XAP file is deployed to a phone for the certification testing. Certificationinvolves the automated and manual verification of the meeting of the requirements that aredescribed in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

� If the application meets all the requirements, the repackaged XAP and assembly files are signed,

and the application is eligible for publication according to the option selected in Step 8.� If the application fails one or more of the requirements, you get a failure report and the

application is not published.

� Important Note: When you submit an application update for certification, it goes through thesame process as the original application.



Link to Your Application in the Windows Phone

Marketplace Catalog

� After your application is published, it appears in theWindows Phone Marketplace catalog.

� You can create links that to allow users to jump directly

to your application in the Windows Phone Marketplacecatalog.

� These links can be used in emails, text messages, andapplications.

� For more information,see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff967553(v=VS.92).aspx.



Updating Your Application in the Windows Phone

Marketplace

� Updating an application undergoes same

certification procedure as new one.

�

Updating an existing application contains followingthings:� Application and isolated storage

� Application title

� Version number

� For more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/ff941089(v=VS.92).aspx#BKMK _Update



Life cycle of A windows phone application



Advertising in Windows Phone Applications

� You can including ads from Microsoft Advertising. TheMicrosoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone enablesyou to create applications that can do the following: ±

Easily integrate text and banner ads into your applicationsand games.

± Provide a monetization solution that maximizes in-appadvertising revenues by unlocking the power of multiplesales channels competing in real time to purchase your adinventory.

± Provide various ad targeting capabilities to deliver the mostrelevant ads to your users.

± Seamlessly handle impression reporting.



Pricing

� Price for selling an application is between $0.99

USD to $499.99 USD

� Atax will be cut from the price

� You can change app price anytime

�Details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202929(v=VS.92).aspx



Registration in App Hub

� Needs $99 per year and $0 for Dream spark members

� Can register as individual or under company name

� Payout will occur once the minimum $200 threshold has beenmet for applications sold on the Marketplace.

� If you're a developer, you'll be paid 70% of all applicationsales

� You're responsible for paying all taxes on the payments youreceive.

� To set up a payment method, you need to register a bankaccount. You can update your bank information through yourprofile.



Microsoft Dream spark

� Dream Spark has partnered with Windows Phone 7 and theApp Hub! Now, you get the same tools professionaldevelopers and designers have, and you can sell your

mobile applications and make money!A

long with all thefree applications, we're waiving the $99 registration feeand giving you the first 100 application submissions forfree!!

Go to:https://www.dreamspark.com/products/Product.aspx?ProductId=28



Thank You

� Prepared by

Mamun,Student of Buet CSE

For any kind of information go to :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402535(v=VS.92).aspx

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