Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Packaging

The Packaging tab is meant to describe information needed for the app’s listing in the Windows Store. However, for apps in the store, this information is managed by the Windows Dev Center dashboard. You therefore don’t normally need to change these values in your local package manifest:

→ The package name is a unique identifier. Visual Studio automatically fills it in with a globally-unique identifier known as a GUID. That said, for easier debugging and identification of your app’s local data store, it’s best to replace the GUID with a human-readable name, such as CompanyName.AppName. This name doesn’t impact real users of your app, as the Windows Store assigns this value in the package that users download.

→ The package display name ...