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FTAs for multiple application IDs
Hello. I am trying to package PuTTy into MSIX. PuTTy sets up the file extension .PPK with two verbs: 'open' which uses the Pageant application, and 'edit' which uses the PuTTygen application. I can e...
In this article https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/blob/docs/hub/apps/desktop/modernize/integrate-packaged-app-with-file-explorer.md it states that:
You can only launch the app with a series of parameters. You can't perform advanced operations, like launching another executable or performing a task without opening the main app.
To achieve these goals, you must create a Shell extension, which provides more powerful ways to integrate with File Explorer.
So from this statement it seems that if you need a file type to be opened in different ways by two different executables in the same package, the application's context menus have to be implemented using a shell extension DLL. I would love for someone to prove otherwise....