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RomaRio
RomaRio

Reputation: 13

How to create Xap file

I'm new in WP development, and now stand before unbreakable wall:

Working in Visual Studio Express 2013

I created a simple journal app, all works fine in emulator and device. But when i was needed a xap file to upload it to windowphone store, and on top panel i choosed release-> any cpu , righ click on project name in solution explorer -> rebuilt solution .... there is no xap file in the Bin directory, there is .exe and .pdb and others... but .xap is missing.

When i created a project, i choosed windows phone app -> empty app (windows phone)...

And just tested, if i'm creating a new silverlight app: windows phone app -> empty app (windows phone silverlight) , xap file is saving without any problem.

So how to save my project, how to create a xap file from my xaml + c# project

Thank you very much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8811

Answers (1)

Oliver Ulm
Oliver Ulm

Reputation: 531

Silverlight Apps create .xap files, for Universal Apps (like the one you created) a .appx file will be created instead. Perhaps it is called .appxupload. Those packages reside in the subfolder AppPackages inside your project.

So if you take that file you will be fine. The store accepts those as well. The App will only support WP8.1 however.

If you need help in creating the .appx packages using Visual Studio 2013 you can refer to this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh975357.aspx

Upvotes: 2

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