Settings charm Search clicked

Question

 We have developed  one app. In that when you click on  search button of setting charms it should search similar things in my app.

for example

in finance app ,if I typed any company name the  finance app searched  it and display the page of that particular company in the app. Similar thing I want implement.

 Please share any idea if anyone get. Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

do you mean this?

SearchPane.GetForCurrentView().ShowOnKeyboardInput = true

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Answer 2

To have your app listed in the Search charm you have to implement Search contract. You can start from the following article - Adding search to an app

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http://lunarfrog.com/blog/

Answer 3

I want to implement the code in which my App should response to searching pane present in  charm bar.

 

Answer 4

Hi,

There is QuerySubmitted event to get the search string from Charm pane when your app is on your main screen. Also,  Activated event to get the search string when your app isn't on your main screen. If you want to response to the search pane, try to register handlers to the events. You could check the article that Andrei showed you and there is sample which may help you:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Search-app-contract-sample-118a92f5/

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Answer 5

just a small addition to Aaron's comment, you have to override the OnSearchActivated(SearchActivatedEventArgs args) method to actually implement the Search Contract (if you want your application to provide search results even if your application is not currently running).

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Can Bilgin
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