如何从 WinUI/UWP 应用程序打开特定应用程序的设置

Question

It is possible to open the Settings App programmatically , there are lot of options but it does not provide details about how to open a setting for a particular app.

I have also seen that we can open a particular app's settings from start menu. This may mean we can also programmatically open a particular app's settings page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

** UPDATE **

Setting option as in start menu

App's setting page, as provided by the OS

Answer 1

there are lot of options but it does not provide details about how to open a setting for a particular app.

You need register launch uri for particular app, and you can get parameter in target app's onactive method. For example testapp:setting , you could get setting string from parameter.

Then call navigate method to setting page base base on the received parameter. For more info please refer to Handle URI activation .

And the other way is build jump list for the app. The jump list is a system-provided menu that appears when the user right-clicks a program in the taskbar or on the Start menu.

var jumpList = await Windows.UI.StartScreen.JumpList.LoadCurrentAsync();

// Disable the system-managed jump list group.
jumpList.SystemGroupKind = Windows.UI.StartScreen.JumpListSystemGroupKind.None;

var taskItem = JumpListItem.CreateWithArguments(
              "/Setting", "Setting");

// Set the description. (Optional.)
taskItem.Description = "Compose a new message to " + "Nico";

// Set the logo for this jump list item. Must be ms-appx: or ms-appdata:.
taskItem.Logo = new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/StoreLogo.png");


// Remove any previously added custom jump list items.
jumpList.Items.Add(taskItem);

// Save the changes to the app's jump list.
await jumpList.SaveAsync();

And you could process launch parameter.

protected override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Kind == ActivationKind.Launch && e.Arguments == "/Setting")
    {
        // navigate to setting page.
    }
}

Update

You could use ms-settings:appsfeatures-app to open current app's setting page with launcher in code behind. But it could not use to open other app's setting content.