1 To do this you’ll need to create a developer account with the Store by using the Store > Open Developer Account command in Visual Studio Express. Visual Studio Express and Expression Blend, which we’ll be using as well, are free tools that you can obtain from http://dev.windows.com. This also works in Visual Studio Ultimate, the fuller, paid version of this flagship development environment.

2 All of the automated tests except the malware scans are incorporated into the Windows App Certification Kit, affectionately known as the WACK. This is part of the Windows SDK that is itself included with the Visual Studio Express/Expression Blend download. If you can successfully run the WACK during your development process, you shouldn’t have any problem passing the first stage of onboarding.

3 The user always has the ability to disallow access to sensitive resources at run time for those apps that have declared the intent, as we’ll see later. However, as those capabilities surface directly in the Windows Store, you want to be careful to not declare those that you don’t really need.

4 “wwa” is an old acronym for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript; some things just stick….

5 Note that network capabilities are not necessary to receive push notifications because those are received by the system and not the app.

6 For those readers who have not watched this movie all the way through the credits, there’s a short vignette at the very end. During the movie, Lockhart—a prolific, narcissistic, and generally untruthful autobiographer—loses his memory from a backfiring spell. So in the vignette he’s shown in a straitjacket on the cover of his newest book, Who am I?