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I have been tasked with finding a solution for launching a WPF desktop app from a button click on a running MVC web page hosted on the same client box as the WPF app. Is this possible? It is possible with a registry hack, but this method does not provide the running WPF app with sufficient permissions to allow some of its third party dependencies to run properly. Thanks!

Steven

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  • One possible way is to have a constantly running application in the user's system tray that connects to your site. When the user clicks a button on the site, it notifies the server, which would in turn notify the application running in the user's system tray, which would launch the WPF app. – mason Mar 23 '18 at 16:24
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    You can register a custom URI handler and redirect to that URI from your application, see [this question for more info](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/389204/how-do-i-create-my-own-url-protocol-e-g-so). The up side to this method is you can also pass parameters/information to the application in the URI. – Ron Beyer Mar 23 '18 at 16:36

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