Universal Windows Platform
Welcome to the Universal Windows Platform Developer Feedback site. This site provides the Windows developer community with a channel for feedback on the following topics:
- Windows developer platform (APIs, runtimes, and controls)
- Dev Center (dashboard, reporting/analytics, submission process, etc.)
- Microsoft Store
Your suggestions will be reviewed by the Windows platform developer team to help with planning ideas and to better understand how developers are using the platform.
What this forum is not intended to cover or capture:
- Windows consumer suggestions: Use the Windows Feedback Hub app built directly into Windows 10
- Documentation on docs.microsoft.com: Sign in at the bottom of the page to give documentation feedback via Github
- Visual Studio / .NET: Use the Visual Studio UserVoice site
If you’re new to UserVoice, two things to keep in mind are (a) List items (and item rankings) represent community interest in features, and not the actual priority list for the product team; and (b) Suggestions made using this forum will be moderated if they do not actually represent a feature request (or if too many different ideas are included in one suggestion).
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Provide a way to mark a Store submission as a bug fix so it can skip or fast-track certification
From my recent experiences it seems that an app submission can pass certification with no problems, but then a subsequent submission that only makes a very minor code change such as bug fix can fail certification. I accept that this will probably happen in general because full checks cannot be applied every time and different testers may pick up on different things.
However, it concerns me that one day I will run into the following hypothetical scenario:
I release a major app update which passes certification fine. I then notice a critical bug in the app which I need to…3 votes -
Please improve the Store Certification process!
Please provide some consistency in the certification process. I submitted a game for publishing on Monday. It went through the entire process in about 2 hours. The game wasn't set to be published until Friday at Midnight.
Over the course of the week, some fixes were made to the game's code and was resubmitted for publication on Thursday around 10am.
It's been sitting in "Certification in Progress" now for 2 days. If it doesn't go through, I'm going to miss my published release date.
If you can't give a reasonable estimation on release times, maybe let us put multiple releases…
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Convert a company account into an individual
I made the mistake of registering a dev account using the type company instead of individual. Now I cannot change it to individual. This is not good enough. I have to be able to change dev account type. Please make this happen as soon as possible.
3 votes -
hello, i want to close my developer account & get the money from my app sales, which is less than threshold level. how can i do that?
hello, i want to close my developer account & get the money from my app sales, which is less than threshold level. how can i do that?
2 votes -
Office VSTO add-in on Windows Store or Office Store
At the moment a VSTO add-in cannot be published on Windows Store or on Office Store.
An idea could be extending Desktop App Converter tool in order to manage VSTO add-in.
Another solution could be simply extend Office Store in order to publish VSTO add-in.64 votes -
Add a hardware dashboard API health page
Please consider to add health check page for hardware dashboard API service for managing hardware submissions.
It's not working for about a day (returning HTTP 503 on every request) and no one have a clue what happened and when it would be fixed.1 vote -
Let us delete addons in the partner center
Please, give us the possibility to delete add-ons (with, without subscriptions etc) right in the Web GUI of the partner center.
Right now, if you want to delete an addon in the partner center (which you have created there), you have to:
Read and follow all the required manuals to delete an add-on with azure ad integration.
Create an account, wired app to it, get token, app-secret, tenantId etc.
Entered the needed ID also in the partner-center's section "product collections" and "adminstrator agreement".
Search desperatly for a complete c# uwp exambple how to connect and proceed with a follow up…
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Additional fields in reporting and on acquisition chart
Our add-on products are subscriptions. The reporting and the acquisition chart do not provide needed information for subscriptions.
The downloadable report for each payout should show the number of months the user has been subscribed, and which subscribers are in the free trial phase.
The acquisition chart should show, per the time period selected, the number of new subscriptions, the number of cancellations during the free trial, and the number of cancellations for paid subscribers. Also, the acquisition chart should show also the average number of months a user stays subscribed for – calculated from the time add-on subscription launched.
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present DOWNLOAD FREE TRIAL action button for store apps that have free trials
I have an app listed on the store here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/deskrule-desktop-search-engine/9nblggh43z1v
it is declared as "free to try" but prospective users just see a big BUY button, and to get the free trial they have to hunt for the […] button and its menu. I am sure this limits the # of people willing to try the app!The default action button for free to try apps should be DOWNLOAD FREE TRIAL instead of "buy"
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AddOn
Allow Store Product Add Ons to be deleted or at least hidden if they are not active.
Over time our list has become unmanageable due to not realizing once submitted even if the add on is never used it cannot be removed. Even just hiding inactive products by default would help us manage our list of add on products better.
1 vote -
payout
Lower payout. For some countries it's $25 while for others is $200. It makes no sense that for Brazil it's so high, specially considering the currency value.
2 votes -
1 vote
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Dev Dashboard: Can’t delete garbage feedback
As a developer that has to stay on top of feedback, I receive feedback from users around the world. Some of these users are dirtbags and send me garbage feedback like "asdfasdfasdf". I cannot delete this feedback.
This clutters up my feedback interface and impacts load times.
I contacted support and they can't delete it either SRX1428283722ID
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See how much current subscriptions per app
Allow developer to see how much current subscriptions add on per app. Now I can only subscriptions count in range, not current subscriptions count in real time.
1 vote -
Faster certification
Current certification process is too heavy and still not automated. It could take up to 5 days to submit and publish update, because If you submit small bugfix in Friday, your submission will be delayed until Monday and then it could take up to 3 days. I think, there is no need in manual certification more often than once a month or one time per minor version.
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windows store theme
Right now you can only get themes from the windows store from Microsoft directly. You should allow devs to post their own themes on the Microsoft store like they can on the Chrome Web Store.
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Developers Dashboard: Allow response to anonymous feedback
In the developer dashboard page there is the option to review and comment on costumer feedback. This is a very nice capability and thank you for providing it! Unfortunately, if the gives feedback on your application anonymously there is no option to comment on that feedback or change status etc. I understand if the comment is anonymous then they will not receive emails on my comments, but it would still be very nice to be able to comment on the feedback and track the status for my own use or for future customers to see if they are perusing previous…
2 votes -
Allow Upload to store the UWP App that use SDK Preview
For example, MS provide the lot of sdk and new technologies about Win10 Fall CU. The SDK itself support the side-by-side installation, then we can try the new API with our UWP Apps.
But, there are no way to distribute this kind of app to testers or customers that use Win10 Insider preview. It only allow the Customer Update SDK level.
I belive that Store should control the SDK level more grained.
You know, many of Microsoft Apps are updated with new SDK, and it'll be available at the store during Insider Preview. If our - ISV - UWP App…7 votes -
Windows Store app IAP subscription model
Can you please add an IAP which would have a recurring payment (automatically charge user monthly / annually / etc)? Basically a subscription. This would simplify development of apps which now need to prompt the user to go buy an IAP each time it expires and it also makes the experience better for users (who might be used to this model from Android / iOS)
6 votesWe announced subscriptions coming soon.
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Support install custom font on Windows Store
I hope everyone can publish fonts on the store
5 votes
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