Open windows store in a windows phone silverlight app

Question

I'm using silverlight to build apps for windows phone 7, 8.0 and 8.1

I have an URI in my code that contains ms-windows-store:PDP?PFN=SupportingComputersInc.Fhotoroom_pxc4cxt3rds1p

I'm trying to open the windows store to this specific app.

I found this code:

Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri);

But it is just opening xbox music. Then, I found that:

var options = new Windows.System.LauncherOptions();
options.PreferredApplicationPackageFamilyName = "SupportingComputersInc.Fhotoroom_pxc4cxt3rds1p";
options.PreferredApplicationDisplayName = "Fhotoroom app";
Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri, options);

But when I run this code I get a not implemented exception.

Is there another way to open the windows store on windows phone? Am I doing something bad here?

Answer 1

Windows Phone provides special launchers that should do the trick, for example to show a certain app's detail page in Store:

MarketplaceDetailTask marketplaceDetailTask = new MarketplaceDetailTask();
marketplaceDetailTask.ContentIdentifier = "INSERT_APP_ID";
marketplaceDetailTask.ContentType = MarketplaceContentType.Applications;
marketplaceDetailTask.Show();

For a summary of what else is possible (e.g., show the store's search result page for certain search key words) see Launchers for Windows Phone