Receiving a Protocol Launch Request
By associating your app with a particular protocol, the OS sends any launch requests that specify that protocol to your app. The OS does this by launching your app and providing a deep-link URI that may include actions encoded in the URI to be performed by your app.
It is your app’s responsibility to recognize the incoming protocol request and redirect to a page that can handle it.
Detecting a Protocol Launch
The deep-link URI that is received by your app includes a query string parameter named encodedLaunchUri. The value of this parameter is the URL that was provided to the Windows.System.Launcher. The value has two parts: a protocol name portion that comes before the colon character (:) and the payload message, ...
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