Windows Store App URLs at ms-windows-store:// - Broken Now?

Question

Recently the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store have merged as you might have seen on the developer portal, the user-facing Windows Store website, etc.

Since this has happened, a few links we have been using in our apps have stopped working.

Such as:

• Link to our publisher page - ms-windows-store:search?publisher=OurPublisherName
• Link to rate/review our app - ms-windows-store:reviewapp?appid=OurAppId

Documentation on these are here. Anyone else having this trouble?

Answer 1

I was able to solve these issues with URLs of the format:

• Publisher page - ms-windows-store:Publisher?name=OurPublisherName
• Review page - ms-windows-store:Review?PFN=OurPackageFamilyName

To find these values on your account, login to the new Windows Dev Center | Select Your App | App Overview | Scroll down to App Identity.

Package/Properties/PublisherDisplayName will display your publisher name. Be sure to replace any spaces with %20. Package Family Name (PFN) is the PFN for this app.