Prepare your Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app for publishing
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
To prepare your Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app for publishing, you have to manually enter or update several values in the Package.appxmanifest.xml file and the WMAppManifest.xml file. Get these values from your Dashboard after you reserve a name for your app.
Values to enter manually in Package.appxmanifest.xml
Enter or update the values described in this section in the Package.appxmanifest.xml file in the root folder of your project.
The fields that you have to update are not all available in Manifest Designer. To open the file in the XML text editor, right-click Package.appxmanifest.xml in Solution Explorer, and then click View Code.
Element or attribute to update |
Corresponding value from your Dashboard |
Corresponding field in Manifest Designer |
|---|---|---|
Name attribute of the Identity element. |
Package identity name from the App info page. |
Package name on the Packaging tab. |
DisplayName element. |
The reserved name for the app. |
Package display name on the Packaging tab. |
Publisher attribute of the Identity element. |
Windows publisher name from the App info page. |
None. |
Version attribute of the Identity element. |
Not applicable. |
Version on the Packaging tab. |
PublisherDisplayName element. |
Publisher name from the Account summary page. |
Publisher display name on the Packaging tab. |
Values to enter manually in WMAppManifest.xml
Enter or update the value described in this section in the WMAppManifest.xml file in the Properties folder of your project.
Enter or update the following value by using Manifest Designer. Double-click WMAppManifest.xml, or right-click, and then click View Designer.
Element or attribute to update |
Corresponding value from your Dashboard |
Corresponding field in Manifest Designer |
|---|---|---|
Title attribute of the App element |
The reserved name for the app. |
Display Name on the Application UI tab. |
Before you publish an update, increment the version of the app
Before you publish an update for your Silverlight 8.1 app, you have to manually increment the app version in the appxmanifest.xml file. The version number is not incremented automatically for Silverlight 8.1 apps. If the version number of the app update isn’t greater than the previous version, the package won’t be recognized as an update.
The version number is found in the Version attribute of the Identity element in the manifest file.