{"id":2312,"date":"2015-03-05T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2015-03-05T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:29:27","slug":"wtf-is-a-desktop-device-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2015\/03\/wtf-is-a-desktop-device-app\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF is a &#8220;Desktop Device App&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently you now <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/12311203\/how-to-pass-the-smart-screen-on-win8-when-install-a-signed-application\">have to run the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) on the software executables you publish in order to avoid a moderately scary warning from Windows SmartScreen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon running WACK, you&#8217;re presented with four options:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WindowsAppCertificationKit_StartScreen_DesktopAppDeviceHighlighted-300x216.png\" alt=\"WindowsAppCertificationKit_StartScreen_DesktopAppDeviceHighlighted\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WindowsAppCertificationKit_StartScreen_DesktopAppDeviceHighlighted-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WindowsAppCertificationKit_StartScreen_DesktopAppDeviceHighlighted.png 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Validate Windows Store App<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Validate Windows Phone App<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Validate Desktop App<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Validate Desktop Device App<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of them seem pretty self-explanatory, except for the last one, &#8220;Validate Desktop Device App&#8221;. It&#8217;s described as &#8220;Test a desktop device app for compliance with value-added software requirements&#8221;. Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Searching Microsoft and MSDN for the phrase &#8220;value-added software requirements&#8221; turns up zero results. Searching for just &#8220;value-added software&#8221; (isn&#8217;t <em>all<\/em> software value-added?) led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2012\/02\/28\/10273671.aspx\">this post on Raymond Chen&#8217;s The Old New Thing blog<\/a> which indicates that <strong>&#8220;value-added software&#8221; is the crapware\/shovelware that&#8217;s pre-installed on computers bought at, say, Best Buy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish Microsoft would focus less on consistent branding and more on actually explaining things. Incidentally, I gagged a little bit when I read the phrase &#8220;Validate Desktop <strong>App<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently you now have to run the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) on the software executables you publish in order to avoid a moderately scary warning from Windows SmartScreen. Upon running WACK, you&#8217;re presented with four options: Validate Windows Store &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2015\/03\/wtf-is-a-desktop-device-app\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-windows-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}