How to launch the store with specified application link

Question

Hi

How to launch the store with specified application link from inside the metro style apps. 

Regards

Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar- Sr. Software Developer

Answer 1

These are the only classes I know to interact with the store:

Windows.ApplicationModel.Store namespace

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/windows.applicationmodel.store

And apparently they all apply to the current app, so nothing to launch the store and do stuff like the things we can do on Windows Phone with MarketplaceSearchTask or MarketplaceDetailTask.

I'm going to do some more research in case I'm missing something.

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Answer 2

You can launch a link using the Windows Store protocol: ms-windows-store:PDP?PFN=<package family name>

See Linking to your apps on the web for more details.

--Rob

Answer 3

This will open the Store on e.g. Pinball FX2 game:

Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("ms-windows-store:PDP?PFN=Microsoft.PinballFX2_8wekyb3d8bbwe"));
 

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Answer 4

Is this the correct way to get the "Package Family Name" in code?

            var uri = new Uri(@"ms-windows-store:PDP?PFN=" + Package.Current.Id.FamilyName);
            await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri);

Answer 5

Has anyone been able to confirm Tom's suggested code for programmatically accessing the Package Family Name? I need to know this too and would find a definitive answer here extremely useful.

At the moment I'm having to guess whether my link to the Store will work as I don't appear to be able to know for certain what the package family name is prior to publishing, by which time it's too late to add it to my app.

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