Start other App (Skype) from my Hololens App or integrate videochat

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Hello,

sounds like a simple Task, but I cannot find a solution:

I want to start skype from my HoloLens app.
I tried from System.Diagnostics Process or ProcessStart… but they are not there.

Can anybody tell me how to start Skype from my own HoloLens app?

Or maybe there is a solution to integrate a videochat in my app? There is no skype api anymore, is there something else? for one Client should be a pc Client possible…

Thanks a lot!

PS: I also found this thread, but there seems to be no solution, at least to start skype from mine:

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From what I can see windows store applications are not allowed to start new processes inside of a app.

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You can start other apps but, you cannot do this with the Skype app because it does not have a URI associated with it. If you know the URI you can open another app or switch between them. The skype app is also very outdated and works sparingly. I would assume that Microsoft is about to update it considering they are about to launch their Mixed Reality headsets so, it could be a possibility in the future.

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Thanks for the info!