VS 2013 - Store > Create App Packages Disabled

Question

I am trying to deploy a Windows Phone 8.0 package with VS 2013, in order to upload it to the Store.

I have referred to this article but the problem is that Project > Store is disabled...

I have searched and found these answers: Answer 1, Answer 2. But with no help: even though the correct project is selected in the solution explorer - I still can't use the Store menu items in VS.

Any idea why? Can you help me? Thanks.

Answer 1

You are looking at a tutorial for Windows Store. Not Windows Phone store. To upload packages for Windows Phone, you need to build the project and then choose the *.xap you find in Bin\Release in the upload process at dev.windowsphone.com.

This does change if you develop an universal application for Windows-Phone8.1/Windows8.1 or an application explicitly for Windows-Phone8.1.