Windows 8 store certificate: Uploaded app package invalid because of certification (publisher id) [closed]

Question

I receive following error when attempting to upload my app to the Windows 8 store:

Validation error: The Publisher attribute of the Identity element in the app manifest doesn't match your publisher ID, which is: CN=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

I manually updated the app manifest file with the publisher id displayed within the error message. However, the value that I provided ended up getting overwritten when I uploaded the file to the store second time.

In conclusion, I am unable to upload my solution to the Windows 8 store because of a certificate issue.

Please help.

Answer 1

Not a lot to go on here. I suspect you may have missed a step. Did you associate your application with the Windows Store?

To do so, right click on your project in the solution explorer in Visual Studio. Select Store --> Associate App With the Store... Then follow the dialogs that come up.