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Make it possible to install apps from the Store #30

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There should be a way to improve the scripts to make it possible to install apps directly from the Store. Example: when I repave my dev machines, i install some apps like "Open Live Writer", Paint.NET, Spotify, some Edge extensions e a few other Store apps I use regularly.

It looks like the current scripts already install some appx files that supposedly come from the store, but the process it uses to do so seems to be a hack. It downloads the appx from a minified shortened url and then sideloads it. As far as I could tell, there is no way to get a fixed url to the appx files I want from the Store and do the same, as the urls have information as version in them. I also don't know if installing an app this way has any side effects on how the app is updated from the Store from that point forward, if at all, since it was sideloaded.

The optimal option would be to call some official Windows API passing the Store ID for the app we want to install and let it do it's thing by installing from the Store instead of sideloading. If the user doesn't already "own" the app, it could ask to confirm the purchase (even if free) or have a flag to do it if necessary (similar to the "-y" in Chocolatey).

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