Porting to Windows8 from WP | Background agents (11 of 12) - by Andreas Hammar , Håkan Reis and Peter von Lochow
The Mango (7.1) update for Windows Phone brought us a lot of goodies including the Scheduled Task Agent. It allowed us to create a feeling of push notifications without actually doing any server push implementation. In the Reseguiden app we use the background agents to do new searches for trips and displaying the top result in the app tile. Sort of a budget-push.
So, the question is, does the same functionality exist in Windows 8? The answer is yes; same same but different.
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Post Contributed by: Kunal Chowdhury
Monday, May 07, 2012
Kunal is the Site Admin and Contributor of Silverlight-Zone. He is a Software Engineer, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Code Project Mentor and a Code Project MVP. He is also an active Author in SilverlightShow.net and a speaker in various community events. He works on Microsoft Platform and very passionate about Silverlight technology. He started his career in 2007 and achieved various awards during his professional life.
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