Supporting Sharing
When you build a Windows Store app, you can decide whether you want your app to act as a share source, a share target, or both. Let me explain the difference between being a share source and a share target.
When your app acts as a share source, you can share information from your app with other Windows apps. Every app acts as a share source automatically. You share from an app by opening the Windows Charm bar and clicking the Share charm.
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At a minimum, every Windows Store app enables you to share a screenshot of the app.
If you click the Share charm in the Internet Explorer app, for example, then you can share a web page with other apps installed on your machine such as the Mail app, the Reader app, and the Twitter ...
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