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Is it possible to call regular desktop application from the windowsRT app?

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Hi,
I want to call desktop application through winRT app. Is it possible can anybody tell mi how to do this?
- Edited by k_amol Monday, April 7, 2014 5:57 AM
Monday, April 7, 2014 5:57 AM
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In a side-loaded Windows Store application you can interact with custom desktop applications through Network Loopback or using Brokered Windows Runtime Components for side-loaded applications, or by launching a file or URL that is registered to an already installed desktop application.
In a Store Application published to the Windows Store, you can't have part of your application running in the desktop.
David
David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/
- Marked as answer by Jamles HezModerator Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:18 AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:13 PM -
There is no supported way for general purpose apps to communicate directly with desktop apps. If your app is distributed through the store then it must be fully self-contained.
With the Windows 8.1 Update, Enterprise side-loaded apps can use brokered Windows Runtime Components to communicate with and enhance desktop apps, but this is available only to side-loaded apps. See Prashant's blog entry Cheat-Sheet for using Brokered Windows Runtime Components for side-loaded Windows Store apps
--Rob
- Marked as answer by Jamles HezModerator Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:18 AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:41 PMModerator
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Not directly. What is the scenario you are trying to achieve?
--Rob
- Proposed as answer by Jamles HezModerator Friday, April 11, 2014 7:31 AM
Monday, April 7, 2014 6:00 AMModerator -
Thank You Rob for your reply :)
I want to do Text Classification. I have some opensource libraries which support in desktop application development environment. But they do not have any support in the WinRT. So I want to use windows application for the text analysis.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:09 AM -
You'll need to port them to work in your app. There isn't a WA for general purpose apps to do ipc with desktop apps.Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:23 AMModerator
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I am not getting... Can you please explain? Please...Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:04 PM
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In a side-loaded Windows Store application you can interact with custom desktop applications through Network Loopback or using Brokered Windows Runtime Components for side-loaded applications, or by launching a file or URL that is registered to an already installed desktop application.
In a Store Application published to the Windows Store, you can't have part of your application running in the desktop.
David
David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/
- Marked as answer by Jamles HezModerator Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:18 AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:13 PM -
There is no supported way for general purpose apps to communicate directly with desktop apps. If your app is distributed through the store then it must be fully self-contained.
With the Windows 8.1 Update, Enterprise side-loaded apps can use brokered Windows Runtime Components to communicate with and enhance desktop apps, but this is available only to side-loaded apps. See Prashant's blog entry Cheat-Sheet for using Brokered Windows Runtime Components for side-loaded Windows Store apps
--Rob
- Marked as answer by Jamles HezModerator Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:18 AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:41 PMModerator