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Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)Mar 04, 2011 at 4:36 PM
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John Mulhausen takes you from from zero to an Azure-hosted, push notification-sending web service and an accompanying phone app in 19 minutes.
1) Do you want to see how to send/receive every kind of Push Notification that there is for Windows Phone?
2) Do you want to know the certification rules...
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Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer QuickApp (Using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7)Mar 04, 2011 at 12:15 PM 1
John Mulhausen walks you through building a very quick application that will take you from zero to visualized accelerometer output (in the form of a line graph) in just 13 minutes.
Click here to download the source code for this app at the Silverlight for Windows Phone Code Gallery.
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Windows Phone 7 Location Services (GPS/Maps) QuickApp (Using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7)Mar 04, 2011 at 12:15 PM 0
John Mulhausen walks you through building a very quick application that will take you from zero to seeing yourself travelling on a map in real-time in just 15 minutes.
The Location Service for Windows Phone 7 uses a combination of GPS, cell-tower data, and even Wi-Fi data to determine the phone's longitude,...
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Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)
May 13, 2011 at 5:57 AM@Priya_M:Thanks for the kind words!
To suspend the sending of notifications from your service based on the state of a particular phone's app, your app would basically need to let the server know that that phone doesn't want notifications right now. The event that fires when an app is unloaded would need to - very quickly and efficiently - then relay to the server that it's okay to send messages again. I would worry about that approach for a few reasons -- hooking into the unload event is supposed to be for tombstoning only and not really involve server/client interaction.
Keep in mind that while the app is running you can just ignore any unwanted push notifications. That generates a modicum of wasted traffic, but given that the push notification limit is 1K and each app installation on each phone can receive 500 notifications per day, it's not really much of a problem. I would strongly recommend just coding your app to ignore anything coming from the server that you don't need to show your user.
Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)
Mar 07, 2011 at 10:47 AM@Matthijs: Thanks a lot! Glad it was worthwhile!!
Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)
Mar 07, 2011 at 10:47 AM@AussieInSeattle: Rest assured, I'm a big believer in the format used here and there are future videos coming. I'm so glad it helped; I believe strongly in the power of a good video walkthrough to plant a very vivid image in one's mind about how to do things. FYI, I do have 2 other phone videos in this format already up.
Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)
Mar 04, 2011 at 11:03 PM@Scott H: That is exactly the effect I'm going for - and I LOVE Zero Punctuation. If I could have my way I'd make the stick figure re-enactments to go along with the instructions but my boss said the code walkthrough was more useful.
Glad you enjoyed.