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 ...

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