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feat(identity): 1.2: AppIdentity.Claim, an app id and the Start menu shortcut that names it - #2
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…shortcut that names it An unpackaged app is known to the Windows shell by its executable's file name, which it cannot turn into an app: the media flyout says "Unknown app". Claim sets the process's app id and makes sure a Start menu shortcut carries it, where the shell finds the name and the icon. Written when missing, repointed when its target is gone, kept while its target is there, and never taken from a shortcut that does not carry the id. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FkhFc6pKjAdGDmiG4zaKWM
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An unpackaged Windows app is known to the shell by its executable's file name, which the shell cannot turn into an app: Windows' media flyout calls its media session "Unknown app" (YtPlayer's did).
AppIdentity.Claim(appId, displayName)gives the process the app id (AppUserModelID) and makes sure a Start menu shortcut of that name carries it, which is where the shell finds the name and the icon (Chrome is "Google Chrome" the same way). The shortcut is:The outcome comes back as
StartMenuShortcut; nothing throws for a shell that refuses. The shell's link object is called by vtable slot (IShellLinkW, IPropertyStore, IPersistFile), so there is no COM wrapper dependency. No-op off Windows.Tests: the policy as a pure function (everywhere), and round trips through real shortcuts in a temp folder (Windows). Checked live: a session published under the id showed in the media flyout as "YtPlayer", with the exe's icon, once the shortcut existed.
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