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I am new to Windows Phone 8.

I would like to get the list of installed applications in Windows Phone 8 using c#.

Though I get some samples in older versions I couldn't fetch in Windows Phone 8.

ctacke
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  • Any detail of any sort would be very useful in providing a complete answer. Try to edit in some details and we can vote to re-open – Chris Baker Nov 29 '12 at 05:02

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This functionality isn't available for 3rd party apps on Windows Phone 8. What exactly are you trying to do? You can pass along data using WP8's app2app functionality (custom protocols for plain text and file extensions for file data).

If you're interested in seeing this functionality in future WP versions please open up a new feature request on the wpdev uservoice and ask that the Win8 PackageManager APIs be implemented.

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    If you are building company apps and are signing the apps with your company certificate, you can actually get a list of all installed company apps. So while this is not all apps, there is in fact an API for this. See InstallationManager.FindPackagesForCurrentPublisher() – dotMorten Nov 30 '12 at 05:44
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As far as I know, this is not possible. You can only access other applications that share (use DataTransferManager) and even then you are only sending data to other apps, not receiving data.

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