Launching the Marketplace App with the MarketplaceHubTask

The Marketplace hub task is used to launch the built-in Marketplace app.

The marketplace category can be specified using the ContentType property of the MarketplaceHubTask. Set the ContentType property to a value from the MarketplaceContentType enumeration to launch the hub to a particular type of content, as shown in the following excerpt:

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MarketplaceHubTask task    = new MarketplaceHubTask            {                ContentType = MarketplaceContentType.Music            };task.Show();

ContentType allows you to specify one of two categories: Music or Applications.

Note

The only allowed value for the ContentType property is MarketplaceContentType.Applications ...

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