AUTHENTICATED DISCOVERABILITY OF UNIVERSAL WINDOWS APPLICATIONS TO WIN32 DESKTOP APPLICATIONS

摘要

There are presently no solutions that address Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application discoverability in a secure and/or company-specific fashion. Presently, UWP applications have to be specifically designed to communicate with other UWP Apps that are not from the same vendor. Further, UWP App Services currently have no Windows-native registration or discoverability paradigms. Typically, for UWP-to-UWP communication (for which App Services are typically used), the attempted connection to an App Service would be the first point of discoverability. The solutions presented herein eliminate the need to have any pre-arranged dependencies between the UWP application's author and the Win32 Desktop Application's author, e.g., in instances when the Win32 application needs a coded awareness of the supported UWP application's App Services. A Digital Certificate may be used as the initial validation mechanism for the UWP application, and any UWP application appropriately certified may then request to begin receiving Events from the Win32 application.