How to start a Process from a Win 8 App?

Question

I can’t find System.Diagnostics.Process to start a new process. I guess this is on purpose. But is there a other way? Is this even possible?

Answer 1

Looks like it’s not possible to open any non-metro processes. You can open URLs or Files like *.txt, but not *.cmd or *.exe.

If there is a Custom File Association you could possibly(I haven’t try this) start a process by opening an empty file with your custom filename extension. But you can’t edit the registry to add the association from your app.
So there are no App-Only ways to do this (except not yet discovered hacks ;) ).