Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Allowing the User to Review Your App Using the MarketplaceReviewTask

The Marketplace review task is used to launch the built-in Marketplace application. A review page allows the user to enter a text review for the current app and give it a rating out of five. The user can also see the average rating of the application by other users.

The MarketplaceReviewTask has no settable properties and is launched like so:

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MarketplaceReviewTask task = new MarketplaceReviewTask();task.Show();

Sample Overview

Example code for the MarketplaceReviewTask can be found in the MarketplaceViewModel in the downloadable sample code. The MarketPlaceView uses a button to execute an ICommand called ReviewCommand in the viewmodel.

The reviewCommand ...