Design item Metro App for Windows 8: Properly handles activation from contracts, secondary tiles, and notifications

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This is one of the items that is tested in your Windows 8 App when you use the WACK.

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Properly handles activation from contracts, secondary tiles, and notifications

When an app is activated from a share contract, search contract, tile, or notification, parameters and data are passed to your app. Your app should retrieve the data at launch and act upon it.

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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465102.aspx

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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465102.aspx