KASH Windows Store

Builds an .appx to be published on the Windows Store

Setup

To build applications for the Windows Store, you will need a developer certificate. Each certificate is tied to a publisher. If you are building an app locally and don't intend to publish it as is, you can use any publisher. e.g. CN=Myself. If you are preparing a Store Submission, see the Preparing a submission chapter.

Now run kash configure windows-store, choose Create a new certificate and input your choosen Publisher. This will create a save a certificate for that publisher and will be used when building the .appx package.

In your project's config files add the following:

{
    "WINDOWS_STORE": {
        "PACKAGE_NAME": "<Package name>",
        "PACKAGE_DISPLAY_NAME": "<Display name>",
        "PUBLISHER": "<Publisher>",
        "PUBLISHER_DISPLAY_NAME": "<Publisher Display Name>"
    }
}

This information can be found in the App identity section of the Microsoft partner center. For a local test, you can choose these fields, but make sure your generated certificate uses the same publisher as the one defined here.

Preparing a submission

Login the partner center at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/windows/overview, navigate to your app in Overview > [App] > App Managment > App identity

You will find here all the info to fill in the fields in your project's config files

TODO

• Generate All icons, some are missing
• Add get-publisher key that retrieves the publisher ID for a given app