WP7 What is the link for "rate and review"?

Question

When you publish an application on the marketpace, you may access it by link http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=GUIDOfApplication which redirects to application's page on the market. I know that that it is possible to link directly to "rate and review". So, what is that link?

Supervise

Answer 1

From within your app you can call the MarketplaceReviewTask. As far as I know it's not possible to rate and review an application unless you have it installed on your phone.

Obviously until you publish your app to Marketplace this will give an error as the phone can't find your app in Marketplace.

See MSDN docs for more detail.

Potshot

OK. Thank you. To avoid an error probably I will have to add this thing in a first update. – Supervise

It should be fairly reliable - just beware that the app GUID will change from the one in WMAppManifest.xml once the application goes through Marketplace. – Potshot

You don't have to submit a GUID to show the ReviewTask, it automatically takes the GUID of the current application. So you can savely use it in your very-first version, the user will not get any error because when he use it the app is available in marketplace. You only get an error while developing / testing. – Multipartite