One thing that so many developers forget is that reviews are a crucial element in driving the adoption of your application. Not only do a lot of developers forget to provide a link to submit a review within their application, they also don’t prompt the user to post a review. Here’s a simple suggestion that should help drive reviews:
– Make sure the user can navigate to the Windows Phone Store review page for your application from somewhere within your application
– Prompt the user to complete a review based on some algorithm eg:
> After X days of using the app
> After running the app X number of times
> After successfully completing something within the app
The simplest way to navigate users to the review page is using the MarketplaceReviewTask:
MarketplaceReviewTask marketplaceReviewTask = new MarketplaceReviewTask();
marketplaceReviewTask.Show();