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Launching Apps with Parameters
In the recent Ignite video from John Vintzel , he mentioned that launching apps with parameters is supported on OS2004. I believe I heard that this may be done in the manifest, and that you'll have ...
- >As I read the documentation, this seems to only apply to uap10 hosted apps
Nope. <Application> and <Extension> attributes are 'activation info' -- Executable, EntryPoint, TrustLevel, RuntimeBehavior, Parameters, etc. That tells Windows "here's how to create a process for this activatable extension point". Parameters aren't just for host runtime.
>standard win32 based exe expose a start menu entry that uses command line arguments without the need of the PSF.
Can you elaborate?
What do you expect happen when the start menu entry is selected? A process is created with the exe? Does the process have package identity? Application identity? Is this exe referenced by an <Application> in appxmanfiest.xml? Is this just a random exe in an MSIX package not referenced by anything in appxmanifest.xml?
HowardKapustein
Microsoft
Microsoft<Application> and <Extension> support the uap10:Parameters=... optional parameter to pass manifested parameters to the launched process.
You can specify certain dynamic runtime values e.g.
<Application...uap10:Parameters="$(package.effectiveLocation)\bar.dat")
will launch the application with the parameter per GetPackagePathByFulName2(...PackagePathType_Effective...) + "\bar.dat"