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Matthew Merry

Mehmet Iyigun

John Michael Sheehan

Elliot H Omiya

Pierre-Yves Santerre

Christopher Scott Dickens

Daniel Oliver

Scott E Dart

Benjamin Betz

Rodger William Benson

Tassaduq Basu

Timothy R Sullivan

Hart Wilson

Jason R Olson

Sriram Sarda

Ian H Kim

Mohammad Almalkawi

Cody Miller

Jonathan Eldridge

Lawrence Osterman

Zachary Brown

The operating system of a computer maintains an extension catalog that stores data relating extensions with information about the contracts the extensions support. Extensions are registered in this catalog according to the contract they implement. The extension catalog can be queried to identify extensions that support a given contract. An extension can be selected from among the results from a query, and the selected extension can be activated. When activated, the extension is set up by the operating system as an independent process from, and with context from, the application for which it is an extension. Information about the extension is provided to the application to enable the extension and the application to communicate according to the supported contract.

Discovery and activation of application extensions

Techniques for modes for applications are described. In one or more implementations, multiple operational modes are provided for an application. The operational modes can be associated with different resource access permissions, trust statuses, graphical user interfaces, and so on. An application can be launched in a particular one of the operational modes based on a context in which a request to launch the application is received. In one or more implementations, correlations between launch request contexts for an application and operational modes can be configured to enable different launch requests to cause an application to launch into different operational modes.

Modes for applications

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