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    <p>My WPF application needs to list the localized names of all Metro/WinRT applications installed for the user. I created a repo to store a working sample for the code presented: <a href="https://github.com/luisrigoni/metro-apps-list" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/luisrigoni/metro-apps-list</a></p> <p><strong>1)</strong> Using <code>PackageManager.FindPackagesForUser()</code> method</p> <pre><code>var userSecurityId = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().User.Value; var packages = packageManager.FindPackagesForUser(userSecurityId); foreach (var package in packages) Debug.WriteLine(package.Id.Name); } // output: // Microsoft.BingFinance // Microsoft.BingMaps // Microsoft.BingSports // Microsoft.BingTravel // Microsoft.BingWeather // Microsoft.Bing // Microsoft.Camera // microsoft.microsoftskydrive // microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps // microsoft.windowsphotos // Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames // Microsoft.ZuneMusic // Microsoft.ZuneVideo </code></pre> <p>These outputs don't seems too friendly to show to the user...</p> <p><strong>2)</strong> Reading the <code>AppxManifest.xml</code> of each of these apps</p> <pre><code>var userSecurityId = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().User.Value; var packages = packageManager.FindPackagesForUser(userSecurityId); foreach (var package in packages) { var dir = package.InstalledLocation.Path; var file = Path.Combine(dir, "AppxManifest.xml"); var obj = SerializationExtensions.DeSerializeObject&lt;Package&gt;(file); if (obj.Applications != null) { foreach (var application in obj.Applications) { Debug.WriteLine(application.VisualElements.DisplayName); } } } // output: // ms-resource:AppTitle // ms-resource:AppDisplayName // ms-resource:BingSports // ms-resource:AppTitle // ms-resource:AppTitle // ms-resource:app_name // ms-resource:manifestDisplayName // ms-resource:ShortProductName // ms-resource:mailAppTitle // ms-resource:chatAppTitle // ms-resource:///resources/residTitle // ms-resource:///strings/peopleAppName // ms-resource:///photo/residAppName // ms-resource:34150 // ms-resource:33273 // ms-resource:33270 </code></pre> <p>Definitely not friendly...</p> <p><strong>Update 1)</strong> Increasing above item (<strong>2</strong>) with <a href="http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/shlwapi.shloadindirectstring" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>SHLoadIndirectString</code></a> funcion (hint by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/18368775/1261906">Erik F</a>)</p> <pre><code>[DllImport("shlwapi.dll", BestFitMapping = false, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = false, ThrowOnUnmappableChar = true)] private static extern int SHLoadIndirectString(string pszSource, StringBuilder pszOutBuf, int cchOutBuf, IntPtr ppvReserved); static internal string ExtractStringFromPRIFile(string pathToPRI, string resourceKey) { string sWin8ManifestString = string.Format("@{{{0}? {1}}}", pathToPRI, resourceKey); var outBuff = new StringBuilder(1024); int result = SHLoadIndirectString(sWin8ManifestString, outBuff, outBuff.Capacity, IntPtr.Zero); return outBuff.ToString(); } [...] foreach (var application in obj.Applications) { Uri uri = new Uri(application.VisualElements.DisplayName); var resourceKey = string.Format("ms-resource://{0}/resources/{1}", package.Id.Name, uri.Segments.Last()); Debug.WriteLine(ExtractStringFromPRIFile("&lt;path/to/pri&gt;", resourceKey)); } [...] // output: // Finance // Maps // Sports // Travel // Weather // Bing // Camera // SkyDrive // Mail // Messaging // Calendar // People // Photos // Games // Music // Video </code></pre> <p>Much, much better. We already have english labels. But how to extract other language resources?</p> <p>I'm expecting retrieve the same label that is shown on Start Screen for each app, something like "Finanças", "Esportes", "Clima" if my language is pt-BR; "Finances", "Sports", "Weather" if my language is en-US.</p> <p><strong>[Q]</strong> Is there another way to get the application names? Maybe native/Win32 (DISM API/...)? Is possible to load the .pri file of each app to get the localized name?</p> <p>As said, an updated working sample is here: <a href="https://github.com/luisrigoni/metro-apps-list" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/luisrigoni/metro-apps-list</a></p>
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