Your app's name plays an important role in how customers find and perceive your app in the Windows Store.
Each name that you reserve must be unique throughout the entire Store, not just in a particular language. If your app supports more than one language, you can reserve additional names for the app to use in other languages.
Open the name page
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Go to your Dashboard in the Windows Dev Center - Windows Store apps.
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Locate your app's tile in the Dashboard and click Details.
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Open the Name page.
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If the app is in progress, the app's release summary page opens. From the app's release summary page, click Name.
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If the app is in the Store, you must create a new release for the app. From the App details page, click Create new release. Then, from the app's release summary page, click Name.
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Reserve a new name
Note Desktop app developers, check out Naming desktop apps for more info on how to reserve your app name.
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Go to your Dashboard in the Windows Dev Center - Windows Store apps.
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Locate your app's tile in the Dashboard and click Details.
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Open the Name page.
- On the page, click Reserve another name.
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In the text box, enter the name that you want to use in another language, and then click Reserve name. If this name is already reserved or in use by another developer, you'll see an error message and you'll have to try another name.
- Repeat step 2 to enter names for other languages.
- After you have reserved the names you need, click Save to return to the release summary page.
Update the app package and submit
After you reserve the new names, add them to the app manifest, upload the new packages, and submit the app for certification. You must submit an app for certification when you rename it also.
If the updated package supports more languages than the current release of your app, you must fill out a new Description page for each new language. You may also want to review the Description page of the previously supported languages.
Note If your app supports new languages, you may want to update the markets in which your app is offered by going to the Selling details page from the release summary page.
Naming desktop apps
If you're a desktop app developer and have submitted your Windows App Certification Kit results, you should see the name of your app when you go to the Name page. You still need to click Reserve name to confirm that this is the name you want to use. To make changes to your app name, click Edit. Click Save when you're finished.
Note To list a desktop app under more than one name—for example, to have it listed under a different name in another language—you must submit the app again as a different app under a different name.
Build date: 3/19/2013
