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My first application for Windows Store is already published! It is a very simple application but now I know the complete process to publish an application on Windows Store.

The application is localized, at the moment available in English and Spanish. More Localization details.

I have developed this application before for Windows Phone. I used a Portable class library to implement the Business Logic of the application – Models and Common classes. The Views and View Models are contained in different platform specific projects (Windows 8.1 + Windows Phone 8) . More details here.

These are a couple of screenshots of the Application:

It is optimized to run on PCs and Tablets with Windows 8.1. You can execute it in full screen or snapped mode. More details here.

Snapped mode

Tablet simulator

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I will publish a small guide with the requirements to publish an application on Windows Store soon, the process is easy and very good explained, but there are some stuff to prepare: an email contact, privacy policy link, application screenshots, etc.!

I wanted to implement a simple Windows Store application to see how the publishing process works and compare the implementation with the implementation of a Windows Phone or Desktop WPF application. To do this I thought it would be a good idea to take the sample application I implemented for Windows Phone two years ago and migrate it to a Windows Store application. The application is a simple Chess Clock.

App Windows Phone Store Link

The idea is to refactor the actual code and implement exactly the same application for Windows Store.

There are some points that I wanted to improve from my previous version:

Get rid of the notification property changed code and trigger it automatically, Fody is great for this.
Remove the OnNavigateTo and OnNavigateFrom from my pages code behind, move this code to the view models. I implemented a couple of base class for this.
Separate my Models in two class, one should contain only the logic and the other one the status.

So far this is the class diagrams of my Game Clock: