Windows 8 Camp Montreal - 2012-04-10 - Integrating the Windows 8 experience with contracts

dataTransferManager.addEventListener("datarequested", function (e) {
…
// Common properties
var request = e.request;
request.data.properties.title = "Title for data";
request.data.properties.description = "Description of the data";
request.data.properties.thumbnail = thumbnail; // of type StreamReference

// Common methods
request.data.setText("Text to share");
request.data.setHtml("<HTML …>");
request.data.setUri(uri /* of type Uri */);
request.data.setBitmap(stream /* RandomAccessStream */);

// Custom data
request.data.setText("FormatID", "Text to share");
request.data.setData("FormatID", datastream /* RandomAccessStream */);

// set up data transfer manager
var dataTransferManager =
Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.DataTransferManager.getFor
CurrentView();

// create event listener to be called on to fill out data package
dataTransferManager.addEventListener("datarequested", function (e) {
// fill in data package with what to share
var request = e.request;
request.data.properties.title = "Title for data";
request.data.properties.description = "Description of the data";
request.data.setText("Text to share");
...
});

<!– extension needs to be added to package.appxmanifest -->
<Extensions>
<Extension Category="windows.shareTarget" StartPage="shareTarget.html">
<ShareTarget>
<SupportedFileTypes>
<FileType>.jpg</FileType>
</SupportedFileTypes>
<DataFormat>text</DataFormat>
</ShareTarget>
</Extension>
</Extensions>
...
// activation function in shareTarget.js
function activated(e) {
if (e.kind === Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation.ActivationKind.shareTarget) {
share = e.shareOperation;
document.querySelector('.metadata h1').textContent = share.data.properties.title;
document.querySelector('.metadata p').textContent =
share.data.properties.description;

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