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Monday, 27 August 2012

Discovering data formats supported by Windows 8 share contract target apps


Discovering data formats supported by Windows 8 share contract target apps

Windows 8 apps run in sandboxed environment where all direct communications between apps are prohibited. Instead, Windows 8 provides several mechanisms to facilitate indirect communications – protocols, file type associations and share contracts.
All these mechanisms allow transferring data between independent apps – in most of the cases developers don’t care about data source or destination. However, occasionally there is a need to support communications with a particular app. In this case all protocols, associations and contracts supported by target app need to be identified.

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You can download compiled executable or build it by yourself from source code (.NET 4.5/WPF).

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