From the course: Building a Windows Store Game Using HTML and JavaScript

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Deploying your application

Deploying your application

Once we have our app written, how do we deploy it to the Windows Store? Windows 8 offers a completely new app experience for consumers via the Windows Store. Apps written for this new store use a new programming model called WinRT or Windows Runtime. This is the new foundation inside Windows that enables us to code applications written just using JavaScript and HTML5. Applications purchased from the Windows Store are installed in a different way than older desktop applications. There are no setup .exe files, and users simply click on install from the Windows Store. Applications will be delivered into a secured area on the PC's hard drive. These new applications are bundled up into a single package with the appx extension. The appx package includes an app manifest that talks about all the information needed to deploy the app. It contains a block map, so that files when they need to be updated don't need to install the entire application, and then it includes a signature file that…

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