Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Push Notifcation

Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 5) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Push Notifications

Brian, G. Andrew Duthie, Peter Laudati, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:00:05 GMT

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Abstract:
In Part 5 of of their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Peter Laudati, Brian Hitney and Andrew Duthie show us how to quickly add the ability to implement push notifications for his GameLeader Service using Azure Mobile Services. Check out the full article here.

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Episode 100 - Introduction to the Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs

elio, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:25:14 GMT

Recently we announced a new preview feature Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs. In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten are joined by Elio Damaggio Program Manager II on Windows Azure Service Bus who provides a great overview, and demo of, Notification Hubs and their use from Windows Store and iOS applications.

Service Bus Notification Hubs are an intrinsic feature of Windows Azure Service Bus and are different from other push notification services in four key areas:

Complete client registration management. Your backend application does not need to worry at all about device-ids or channels or other particulars of push notifications and doesn't need to cooperate in management. It doesn't even have to be a web app that's publicly accessible.
Platform independence. Service Bus Notification Hubs allow cross-platform push notifications so that iOS Alerts and Windows Live Tiles can be targeted with a single event message.
Broadcast and tag-based Multicast - Service Bus Notification Hubs are optimized around automatic notification broadcast to many thousand devices with low latency. One message in, thousands of notifications out.
Mass customization - Notification Hub notification templates allow for customization of notification delivery for each individual registration, allowing each instance of a client App to choose how it wants to receive events.

In this preview, Notification Hubs are able to push notifications to Windows Store apps and iOS apps from .NET back-ends. Support for Android and Windows Phone, along with additional back-end technologies (including Windows Azure Mobile Services) will be added soon.

And here are all the key links

Feature guide (Windows Store Apps) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=275828
Feature guide (iOS) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=275829
Fundamentals - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277072
Tutorial (Windows Store Apps) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277073
Tutorial (iOS) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277074

SDKs:

Windows 8 Managed Client Library - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=277160
iOS Client Library - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=277161
Preview client NuGet - http://nuget.org/packages/ServiceBus.Preview

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TWC9: Fall Fury, Azure push, Windows Phone 7.8 SDK, CHEEVOS!

Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:58:49 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[0:34] Announcing Release of Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie)
[1:42] Broadcast push notifications to millions of mobile devices using Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Scott Guthrie)
[2:33] Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8 (Cliff Simpkins )
[3:25] Fall Fury: Part 1 - Introduction (Den Delimarsky, Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Rick Barraza )
[5:16] Tile design guidelines for Windows Phone 8 (Shubhan Chemburkar)
[6:08] Building the Bing apps for Windows 8 (Jigar Thakkar)
[7:18] Building HTML5 Games for the Atari Arcade
[8:36] Introducing SvcPerf - An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF (Sajay Antony), http://svcperf.codeplex.com/
[9:36] CODEMINE: Building a Software Analytics Platform for Collecting and Analyzing Engineering Process Data at Microsoft (Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan, and Wolfram Schulte)
[10:40] GoingNative 13: Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Meet Roberto Sonnino

Picks of the Week!

Clint's Pick of the Week:[11:43] Everything you need to know about the Lumia 820 and 3D printing (Joel Willans)
Dan's Pick of the Week:[13:00] Visual Studio Achievements; they're not Xbox live right? (Cheevos!)

Windows Store app - Add Push Notifications to your apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Nick Harris — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:26:13 GMT

Windows Azure Mobile Services provides an easy to use API for sending notifications to your Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS apps. In this video Nick Harris demonstrates step by step how you can add Push Notifications to send Tiles, Toast and Badge updates to your app. The demo includes:

Provisioning a Mobile Service
Registering your App with the Windows Store
Configuring your Windows Store app for Wide Tile and Toast notifications
Configuring your Mobile Service with Windows Push Notification Service (WNS) credentials
Requesting a Channel using the PushNotificationChannelManager API
Storing that Channel in your Mobile Service
Sending Toast, Tile and Badge Notifications as Inserts occur on your Mobile Service

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iOS Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services

Nick Harris, Josh Twist — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:43:54 GMT

The Windows Azure Mobile Services team are excited to announce full support for iOS developers with a number of improvements to the native, iOS Objective C SDK and perhaps most significantly, support for Push Notifications via APNS.

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Episode 79 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure

Nathan Totten, Nick Harris — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:44:40 GMT

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In this episode, our very own Nick Harris —Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure and all round good guy — builds on the foundational knowledge presented in Cloud Cover Episode 73 and takes us on a deeper dive into how add Push Notifications to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications using MPNS, WNS, Windows Azure and a number of re-usable NuGet packages. The session is code heavy so enjoy!

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In the Tip of the Week, we discuss a blog post by Peter Laudati that details the Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure.

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WIN380 - Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone - Live Q&A with Erez Harari

Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:36:56 GMT

Live Q&A with Erez Harari.

WIN380 - Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone
In Windows Phone an application does not have to run in order to communicate with the user, rather the Push Notifications and Live Tiles features can be used in order to present live and dynamic information to the user over the pinned applications' tiles and by prompting pop-up notifications over the phone screen. In this session we will go through the concepts of Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone applications and see how easy it is to create and use them from your own code.

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Erez Harari (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog)

This session was recorded live on TechDays TV - April 24, 2012. Join host Jonathan Rozenblit every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST for live TechDays presentations on the very latest in technical training topics.

WIN380 - Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone

Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:35:42 GMT

In Windows Phone an application does not have to run in order to communicate with the user, rather the Push Notifications and Live Tiles features can be used in order to present live and dynamic information to the user over the pinned applications' tiles and by prompting pop-up notifications over the phone screen. In this session we will go through the concepts of Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone applications and see how easy it is to create and use them from your own code.

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Erez Harari (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog)

Episode 73 - Nick Harris on Push Notifications for Windows 8

Wade Wegner, Nick Harris — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:53:58 GMT

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In this episode, Wade is joined by Nick Harris—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—who shows us the Consumer Preview update of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8. Nick goes into depth regarding the Windows Push Notification Service and how to best leverage Windows Azure.

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How to Send Push Notifications using the Windows Push Notification Service and Windows Azure

Wade Wegner, Nick Harris — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:55:27 GMT

Learn how you can get a jump start on sending Push Notifications to your Windows 8 client apps from Windows Azure via the Windows Push Notification Service - all in about 4 minutes. This demonstration uses the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 which includes full end to end scenario for Toast, Tile and Badge notifications.

Windows Phone Push Notifications and Windows Azure

Wade Wegner — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:27:36 GMT

Using new NuGet packages built by his team, Wade Wegner shows you how you can create a brand new Windows Phone 7.1 project and enable push notification support using an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application running in Windows Azure - in less than two minutes!

You only need the following three NuGet packages:

Install-Package Phone.Notifications.BasePage

Install-Package CloudServices.Notifications

Install-Package WindowsPhone.Notifications.ManagementUI.Sample

To learn more, watch Wade explain the purpose of these NuGet packages on the following Cloud Cover show: Adding Push Notifications to Windows Phone Apps. You can also try out the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone on CodePlex.

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Episode 59 - Using the Windows Push Notification Service with Windows Azure

Wade Wegner, Nick Harris — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:00 GMT

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In this episode, Nick Harris—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—joins Steve and Wade to discuss the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8. Nick provides background on the Windows Push Notification Service, and shows how to go about building and running a Metro-style app that uses push notifications managed by services running in Windows Azure.

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Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!)

JoMul — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:36:28 GMT

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 and usage restrictions involved with using Push Notifications for Windows Phone?

3) Do you want to see how to make a web service and consume it in a Windows Phone app?

4) Have you been meaning to try Azure but thought it would take MORE than 90 seconds to learn how to publish on it?

If so, look no further; the answers to all these and more are inside.

Click here to download the source code used in this video.

Inside Windows Phone #04: Using Push Notification - Part 2

Yochay Kiriaty — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:20:00 GMT

Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3^rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. However, Windows Push Notification Service overcomes this communication issue, making it possible for Windows Phone devices to receive Push Notification Messages even when applications aren't running.

Join Jorge Raastroem, Program Manager in the Windows Phone Application Platform team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, as they describe what push notifications are and how they work with Windows Phone Push Notification Service.

This is the second video on this topic, including highlights to the updates made to Windows Phone Push Notification Services since the Beta tools release. You can find the first video here: Windows Phone Push Notification. Additionally, you can read Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones and Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2.

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Windows Phone Developer site

Windows Phone Training Kit

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Windows Phone Push Notification

Yochay Kiriaty — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:57:00 GMT

Windows Phone Push Notification Service provides developers with the infrastructure to support sending notification messages to a Windows Phone device even when their applications are not running, in a better conservative manner. Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3^rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. Windows Push Notification Service was created to overcome this communication issue by enabling developers to send Push Notification Messages to Windows Phone devices even when their applications are not running.

Join Jorge Raastroem, a Program Manager in the Windows Phone Application Platform team, and Yochay Kiriaty, a Senior Technical Evangelist, as they describe what push notifications are and how they work with Windows Phone Push Notification Service.

You can also read abot Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones and Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2