Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster

source: MSDN Magazine

The Windows Phone SDK 7.1 includes some great tools for evaluating the adherence to certification guidelines and improving the performance of your applications that target Windows Phone 7.5, prior to submission to the marketplace. In this article, I'll walk you through using the Marketplace Test Kit and Performance Analysis tool on a sample application and show how you can use these tools to evaluate the marketplace-readiness of your application. I'll show you how to use data from the tools to make improvements that will help get it accepted into the marketplace on the first try. For more information about marketplace certification requirements, see the MSDN Library article, "Application Certification Requirements for Windows Phone" (wpdev.ms/certreq).

All of the tools used in this article are included with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1, which you can get at wpdev.ms/wpsdk71rtw.

Sample Application and Test Tools

To exercise the Marketplace Test Kit and Performance Analysis tool, I created a sample application called Examine the Stamen, a simple flower identification application. I created it with my mother in mind; she can use it to improve her flower identification skills. The application displays several small images of flowers on the start screen. A user taps a flower and the application navigates to another page, where it displays a larger picture of the selected flower.

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