Developer technologies | Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
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Hi,
Thanks for posting reporting this error.
This issue has previously been resolved for some users by updating Visual Studio but based on recent community threads it appears to have resurfaced again without an official published root cause.
Recommended quick checks (please work through these before opening a support ticket):
- Visual Studio version
- In VS: Help → About. If not on latest VS 2022 (17.14.x or newer), update first (Installer → Update).
- After updating: sign out of VS (Account Settings), restart VS, sign back in.
- Partner Center account health
- Sign in at the Partner Center dashboard and confirm:
- Status shows “Active” (no “Action required” banners for verification, tax, payout, identity).
- You can see and open the app’s overview page.
- Verify your role (Owner / Manager or equivalent with app management + submission permissions).
- Sign in at the Partner Center dashboard and confirm:
- App name & manifest consistency
- In your project’s
Package.appxmanifest(XML view), check the Identity Name and Publisher match exactly what the app shows in Partner Center.
- In your project’s
- Manual submission fallback
- Build the package in Visual Studio (create the .msix/.appxupload) and try submitting manually through Partner Center.
- If manual submission works, the block is likely limited to Visual Studio’s app list / association API.
If the problem persists after these steps, please submit reports through these channels:
- Partner Center Support: best for account/entitlement issues https://partner.microsoft.com/support
- Visual Studio Developer Community (to flag tooling regression): https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/
I hope this helps and best of luck to you.