Is it possible to somehow submit windows phone 7 applications to MS App Hub from Croatia?
In legal way, through some company who will do it for percentage?
Thanks
The supported countries are covered here. This list is being expanded and I understand a lot of work is involved getting everything in place country by country.
App Hub - faq: answers at a glance
Until Croatia is on the list I don't believe there is an option at the moment unfortunately. Perhaps you could try and find out from local Microsoft reps how the process is going and express your interest.
Companies may be willing to submit on your behalf for a fee, but I can't tell you what the legal ramifications of this would be. I haven't seen any companies promoting such a service at this stage.
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Basically, on the Windows Phone developer site it shows how many installs your app has, but is there any way to see how many of these people have uninstalled it; so that you can see how many are actually using it?
This metric is not available in DevCenter. But you can use Distimo and/or Flurry to get user retention, conversion rates etc.
this question comes out a necessity that belongs to me! I want my profile to changed say everyday at 7:00 PM in the evening to ringing+vibrate from silent.I am not sure if it can be achieved as Microsoft has abstracted some features and prohibited access to them.
I would like to have it as an app,that allows me to set time for a particular period for a profile to stay active.Is it actually possible?Any experts having worked on this platform,please give your valuable suggestions as I am still a newbie in this town of mobile development.
No, the Windows Phone SDK does not allow you to change profiles from your application.
Now, since this is not your first question of this manner, I would highly recommend starting with MSDN documentation for Windows Phone development to see what is supported on the platform.
I have a Wp7 app (ready in a xap), and I'd like to give it to a client, so he can use it in 5-10 devices. But it is an "internal" client for our service, so I'd rather not publish it on WP Marketplace for all to see...
Is there any reasonable way to do this?
when you upload app on marketplace you can set it as private so only users with direct link can see/install it. There was an app which hacked WP7 that allows you to install apps without marketplace but I've heard it's not legal anymore*.
*search for it because I'm not sure about this one.
edit: http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/02/chevronwp7.runs.out.of.tokens.may.not.renew/
Maybe you can try http://labs.chevronwp7.com/
EDIT : Sorry, it seems that all tokens are sold out, so this is not solution for you.
As pointed out by others, you can publish a application on the marketplace as a beta, allowing 5 users to test it using their Live IDs.
But all unlocked phones can have a XAP installed. Generally, Windows Phone applications aren't designed for internal distribution. If you don't intend to publish the application on the marketplace at any point, you need to estimate in the cost of $100 per phone, per year, for the usage of your application.
I'll recommend you contact Microsoft, if you need a specialized deal.
Apple has a corporate developer program with an elevated licensing cost, does Microsoft provide such a service for Windows Phone 7 developers?
This was asked at a recent MS event. You can assign (I think 5) phones to developer unlock them, then load application directly/bypass the marketplace.
Also, there were talks that they are hoping to soon allow beta/redemption codes to allow limited deployment of your application to non-unlocked phones, bypassing testing/marketplace acceptance.... But I do not know the status of this.
The best thing you can do at the moment is develop your application as normal and have a password/login screen at startup. This is a horrible approach, but it does work.
At the moment, the phone is very much targeted towards consumers.
I'm not sure what is provided in the Apple Enterprise version, but so far Microsoft only has the one registration process and no private app distribution: you can distribute apps on the market to everyone, or by giving your xap file to people with dev-unlocked phones, nothing in between.
The official line is NO, not yet.
Windows Phone 7 was created, first and foremost, for consumers, not enterprise customers.
That being said, LOTS of people are asking for this and Microsoft have said they will address this in the future. No timescales or details have yet been announced yet.
This will likely be related to the way that beta testing and home brew distribution are implemented. (Just my assumption.)
I don't know why I can't just comment on another answer in this thread, so my apologies for placing these remarks in an answer.
I think MS needs to really make this happen since it could be the saving grace for WP7. While I personally feel that my experience with WP7 and my Samsung Focus have been just as good or better than that with the second-gen iPod Touch that I have, there are a lot of people who aren't convinced. For better or worse, it really is the ecosystem that matters and MS has that within the corporate world.
I will be developing apps using both my own Live ID and one specific to my employer. Can I register the same device to both IDs at the same time?
It wouldn't be possible at the same time. If you go to the Developer Phone Registration tool you'll see the message "This phone has already been registered. You can may click 'Unregister' if you wish to unregister it.
You could switch the rego between the two though.
With that said, perhaps it doesn't really matter which live id the device is registered to. After all you can deploy apps developed for either you or your employer regardless of which account it's registered too.
As a side note, the way the side loading limit of 10 apps is written is this is per device. But it may be worth testing whether switching live id's offers any benefit.