CHAPTER 10

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Sharing Data

This chapter covers how to share data between Universal Windows Platform apps. Sharing data enables developers to build features that allow users to share information, copy/paste, and drag and drop from one app to another app. For example, a user might want to copy some text or an image from one app and paste it into another app. Users also look for sharing information/links to social networking sites.

Windows 10 apps support sharing data in two different ways.

  • A source app allows users to share data from the app to other apps.
  • A target app allows users to declare an app as a target app, which can retrieve the shared data ...

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