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Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: “Tombstoning”

This post will talk about tombstoning (what a name!) – the part of application lifecycle on Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone execution model governs the life cycle of applications running on a Windows Phone, from when the application is launched until it is terminated. The execution model is designed to provide end users with a fast, responsive experience at all times. To achieve this, Windows Phone allows only one application to run at a time. This eliminates the possibility of users getting their...

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers

This post will talk about launchers and choosers mechanism in Windows Phone 7 applications. The Windows Phone application model isolates every application in its own sandbox, both for execution and file storage. Applications are not able to directly access common stores of information, such as the contacts list to directly invoke other applications such as the phone or messaging applications. To enable scenarios that require common tasks such as these, Windows Phone exposes a set of APIs referred...

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 2 of 2)

In previous post I described how to build server part of push notification mechanism for Windows Phone 7. This time I’ll show how to handle push notifications on the phone. To demonstrate it I created pretty simple Silverlight application for Windows Phone. The UI of this application looks like the follows: Lets see how the push mechanism is implemented. Phone API defines a class, which responsible for push notifications: HttoNotificationChannel . This class is responsible for subscribing to events...

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 1 of 2)

Now, after Beta tools released it is a time to start talking about new features and changes since Apirl CTP. This is the first part of two parts blog post about push notification mechanism in Windows Phone 7. The API described in this article according to recently released Beta version of Windows Phone Development Tools (WPDT). Windows Phone 7 application can’t run in the background (performance, battery life, usage of radio) and therefore there is a need to have a mechanism that facilitates a communication...