Link website to Windows Store app

If your website has an associated Windows Store app you can link to it so that users can easily browse to the app in Internet Explorer 10.

The following meta tags are available:

Name	Content	Required
msApplication-ID	The app ID from the application manifest	Yes
msApplication-PackageFamilyName	Package family name of the app	Yes
msApplication-Arguments	Argument string passed to your app, defaults to the webpage URL	No
msApplication-MinVersion	Forces the user to upgrade to the version specified (if they already have the app installed and it is an older version)	No
msApplication-OptOut	One of: install – do not prompt the user to install the app switch – prevents switching to an already installed app both – both of the above	No

The HTML

Add the following HTML to the head section of your page:

<meta name="msApplication-ID"content="microsoft.build.App"/>
<meta name="msApplication-PackageFamilyName"content="microsoft.build_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>

You can add any of the optional meta tags as required.

To add these items to a WordPress site, add the HTML to the header.php theme file.