The About Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols article describes how to develop handlers for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. In some cases, it may be desirable to invoke another application to handle a custom URI scheme. To do so, register the existing application as a URI pluggable protocol handler and associate it with the custom URI scheme. Once the application has successfully launched,
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