I want install multiple windows store apps through windows store

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Hello, I have below requirement - if anyone can help me here. Your quick responses and advises really Appreciated.

Here I need to install tons of Windows Store Apps through Windows Store (win 10).
I have store links "ms-windows-store://pdp/?PFN=NewspaperDirect.PressReader_f09x14bt6ejbt" on clicking this link this will redirect me to Store .
Here are my steps and i need to automate:
1. Click on Windows Store app Link (e.g. ms-windows-store://pdp/?PFN=NewspaperDirect.PressReader_f09x14bt6ejbt) - (Here i have 100 links)
2. Click on Install Button in windows Store.

Any suggestions, sample code really appreciated. Thanks.

What I have tried:

I have tried with CodedUI, but not able to success. New to c#, hence facing issues. Please help

Posted 19-May-16 6:44am

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Updated 19-May-16 22:12pm

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VenHayz 19-May-16 20:59pm

It's pretty deep to emulate a user to click a button on another application. It would be best to find the EXACT location (link) that the application is downloading from. Or I can create an app that just opens all the store windows to allow you to quickly click through them all.

VenHayz 19-May-16 21:05pm

I just saw the part where you said you have 100 links... This will be a lot harder than I thought. (Atleast for me.)

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2016-05-19T22:12:00

Solution 2

See Launch the Windows Store app[^].

Posted 19-May-16 22:12pm

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VenHayz · Answer 2 · 2016-05-19T15:07:00

I've not gotten into this sort of stuff before in C#, so I'm gonna leave a bit of code out of view, and let you solve yourself. (Mostly IDE code generation)

C#

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
//using ... (I'm doing this from memory, so spare me)

public class DownloadStoreItems
{
    public void DownloadLinks()
    {
        Process.Start("ms-windows-store://pdp/?PFN=NewspaperDirect.PressReader_f09x14bt6ejbt");
    }
}

The above code is not at all what you'll need in it's entirety. This is just a simple thing to show you how you could load a website from C# code. Sorry this isn't much help.