What I want to get is the AppUserModelId of all installed StoreApp applications, so that I can pass it to IApplicationActivationManager->ActivateApplication.
Use PackageManager APIs to enumerate packages and GetPackageApplicationIds to enumerate applications in a package e.g. pseudo-code
FOREACH p IN PackageManager.FindPackagesForUserWithPackageTypes(null,
PackageType_Main|PackageType_Optional)
{
PACKAGE_INFO_REFERENCE pir
OpenPackageInfoByFullName(p.Id.FullName, 0, &pir)
UINT32 n=0
GetPackageApplicationIds(pir, &n, null, null)
BYTE* buffer = new BYTE[n]
UINT32 count=0
GetPackageApplicationIds(pir, &n, buffer, &count)
ClosePackageInfo(pir)
PCWSTR * applicationUserModelIds = reinterpret_cast(buffer);
FOR (i=0; i
See GetPackageApplicationIds() on MSDN for more details including working sample code https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn270603(v=vs.85).aspx