microsoft/project-rome

Native Windows Applications (WinForms/WPF)

cinatic opened this issue · 4 comments

cinatic commented

Hello,

is it possible to register native Window Applications as "devices" with windows components or can i do it with the REST API/graph?

I can see in the graph api that there are "list device" and "send command" calls but it seems that something like "register device" is missing. How am i suppused to register something as a "device"?

Thanks and best regards

sphenry commented

@cinatic Windows registers devices when the user associates a Microsoft Account with the machine. Once a machine is registered, it can be enumerated using either the native WinRT API or from MS Graph.

Any application (WinForms/WPf/WinForms) can be launched cross-device if it supports a 'scheme' (i.e. via LaunchUri). Only UWP or Desktop Bridge apps can be hosts for AppServices.

cinatic commented

hi @sphenry,

thanks for your response. Sounds good (doesn't work... lol no scnr).

  1. Is yet every pc added as device when i am logged in or only with latest creators update?
  2. I tried it on an updated machine, i logged in and logged also in to graph explorer. then i tried get request for ...beta/me/devices and get a 500 error "unknown error", any idea?
  3. Sorry i am bit confused about AppServices, this means the remote communication? w/o AppServices it will not work, right?
sphenry commented

@cinatic ,

  1. Every PC with at least version1607 installed
  2. It's hard to say without more details. Did you have the correct OAuth scopes?
  3. App Services are a mechanism to do rich communication between app. More info here. For simple communication, you might be able to get by with passing data as part of the URI launch
cinatic commented
  1. You are right, i need to enable the scopes in the graph explorer

thanks for the information, i think this is an interesting project