Navigating to an App on the Marketplace with the MarketplaceDetailTask

The Marketplace detail task is used to launch the built-in Marketplace app, which shows the details page for a product specified by a unique identifier that you provide. If an identifier is not specified, the details page for the current application is shown.

The following code demonstrates how to launch the MarketplaceDetailTask:

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MarketplaceDetailTask task    = new MarketplaceDetailTask        {            ContentIdentifier = "<ID>",            //ContentType = MarketplaceContentType.Applications        };task.Show();

The MarketplaceDetailTask has two properties: ContentIdentifier and ContentType. The ContentIdentifier is the unique product identifier ...

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