Neat little change on AppHub

Remember that irritating little detail about registering on AppHub as a student, where your identity needed to be verified in order for your account to be activated and for that to happen you had to submit an app? Hard to submit an app when you need to test it on your device, which has to be developer unlocked, a step that required an activated account.

The remedy was simple – submit a dummy app in order to trigger the identity verification process. With the latest changes to the AppHub, that minor step is no longer required! As of the latest AppHub update, your identity is verified in real-time during your registration. No more dummy app submissions.

If your account was in this dilemma before the update, its status has now been reverted to Step 1 of the registration process. This means that you can go through the registration again along with the new identity verification process.

Now the marketplace is even more accessible to students like you!