Of greater interest for app developers is the fact that all of the desktop apps and modern Windows Store apps that offer protocol activation are listed here as well. If I had installed another FTP program, it might have taken over the mapping for that protocol. Note, above, that Internet Explorer is also mapped to the https and ftp protocols. What you might not be aware of is that this dialog also allows you to view and edit the programs that are used to handle various protocols registered for activating apps.įor example, if I scroll down in this dialog to the Protocols section, I can see that on my system, the http protocol is mapped to Internet Explorer: You may already be familiar with this dialog, if you’ve ever needed to fix some file associations after some program you installed “helpfully” re-set them for you. Discovering Available Protocolsīut what other apps are out there waiting to be activated via protocol activation? Well, one way to discover this is via the Set Associations dialog in Control Panel (to get there, just open Control Panel and type “associate” in the search box in the upper right): In the case of the Maps app that comes with Windows 8, the custom schema for its bingmaps: protocol is well-documented, which is how I knew I could use it in the Community Megaphone app. Others may be custom schemes that are unique to the handling app.
Some, like http: are well-known, and understood. Protocol activation allows both desktop and modern apps to register themselves as handlers for a given protocol or URL scheme. I’ve written in the past about a very useful feature of Windows called protocol activation (a feature that’s not new…in fact, it’s what allows an link to open your default browser…but is particularly useful in the context of Windows Store apps), and how I’ve used this feature to add maps and directions to my Community Megaphone app (see below) without having to write any of the code for that functionality myself. For a video demonstration of how easy it is to add protocol activation to your app, skip to the end of the post. Protocol activation is a cool feature you can add to your Windows Store apps, and allows you to make your app more useful as well as more discoverable. Jason Molzen on Cisco An圜onnect and Hyper-V – Connect to a VPN from Inside a VM Session.
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