Submit Your App to the Store - Windows Phone

The final step is to submit your app to the store.  Let's talk about the Windows Phone Store first.

Create a Windows Phone Store account.

• Navigate to the Windows Phone Dev Center.

• Register as an app developer.  This will cost $19 and require providing your address and other information.  If you wish to register as a company the cost increases to $99 and you must provide some corporate information.  Additional information is available here.
  
  You may need to create a Windows Live account as well if you don't already have one.  The whole process does not take too long. Please provide a working e-mail address and cell phone number: Windows Live will use the e-mail address to authenticate your account, and the Windows Phone Dev Center will send texts to your cell phone for two-factor authentication when registering as an app developer.

Submit the app.

This is a relatively simple process if you prepared properly.  You'll use the screen shots you prepared earlier, and you'll need to supply some information about your app such as name, price, category and markets in which to distribute the app (some countries have more restrictions than others, making it more difficult to get your app submission approved).  You'll also need to upload your app's XAP file.  You can find this in your Phone project's XPlatformCloudKit.Phone8\Bin\Release directory.

When you submit your app it goes through a review process before it makes it to the store.  This process takes a few days.  You can track the progress of your app in review by going to the Dashboard.

[Update - I submitted the app on 13 December 2013, and it was approved and placed on the store here on 18 December 2013.]