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    How create a screenshot so you are ready to publish.... (without opening the SDK)
    Bryanto

    To publish your app on Windows Phone Store and share it with the world, you need three things:

    A) Your signed .XAP file (created for you in Windows Phone App Studio after you've generated your app by Download Publish Package)

    B) Your app tile in 300x300 PNG format (same one you already created as your 'app icon' in the 'describe your app section of Windows Phone App Studio)

    C) At least one screenshot in 768X1280 PNG format (this is not created automatically, so here you go. You can create this in many methods, but this is one way to do it without opening visual studio)

         1) Install your app on your device by scanning the QR code generated in Windows Phone App Studio.

         2) Launch your app and take a few screenshots of the app by pressing the Power button and the Start button.

         3) Find those screenshots in your "albums" under "screenshots" then save to your SkyDrive.

         4) Download from Skydrive and open with Paint. 

         5) In Paint resize (under Home) to 768X1280 pixels if needed

         6) When you are ready publish in Dev Center and you have to "upload images", just use WXGA option and check "Automatically create lower resolution screenshots from WXGA"

    You can also do this using the emulator or the snipping tool.  Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/gg442300(v=vs.105).aspx.

    Now, you are ready to publish at https://dev.windowsphone.com/publish

    Community, please reply if you have a better way to do this.  I'm all ears!

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    Invitation Codes
    App Studio Support Team

    Because the high load we are experiencing in the first 12 hours, we have decided to control new users in the Beta using  invitations.

    You can ask for invitations by email to studio_at_microsoft.com

    Thanks

    The App Studio Team

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