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Need to help to redirect to my app when i try to open the another instance of the same app

Sunil A M 171 Reputation points
2023-08-29T14:51:36.5166667+00:00

Hi Team,

Could you please guide me how to redirect to the same instance of the Winui3 app(which will be already running) when i try to open the another instance of the same app...

Basically i need to immediately redirect to the currently running app(should activate and come to the front) when i open the another instance of the same app.

Best Regards,

Sunil

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  1. Castorix31 83,206 Reputation points
    2023-08-29T21:00:20.9833333+00:00
  2. Jeanine Zhang-MSFT 9,431 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-08-31T06:58:45.7566667+00:00

    Hello,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    In order to handle reactivation, the app can register for an Activated event. The event passes a Microsoft.Windows.AppLifecycle.AppActivationArguments instance to the app, which contains one of the -ActivatedEventArgs instances.

    When a registered activation is triggered, an instance of AppActivationArguments Class is passed to the event handler for the Activated event of the AppInstance class.

    For more details, I suggest you could refer to the Doc:App instancing with the app lifecycle API.

    You could refer to the sample: Handling activations.

    Thank you.

    Jeanine

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