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Live Tiles and Push Notifications Ben Riga Technical Evangelist, Windows Phone Microsoft Corporation

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Title Content Title Background Content string is bigger

What about Windows Phone 8?

Small – small image, count (shared) Medium – front/back medium image, count (shared), front/back title (shared), back content (distinct) *identical to Mango Wide – optional, front/back wide image, count (shared), front/back title (shared), back content (distinct)

Demo Live Tiles – Local Tile API

Scheduling Tile Update public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage { private ShellTileSchedule _mySchedule; public MainPage() { InitializeComponent(); ScheduleTile(); } private void ScheduleTile() { _mySchedule = new ShellTileSchedule(); _mySchedule.Recurrence = UpdateRecurrence.Onetime; _mySchedule.StartTime = DateTime.Now; _mySchedule.RemoteImageUri = new Uri(" _mySchedule.Start(); }

Demo Updating Tiles from a Background Agent

Windows Phone URI to the service: " HQtz-AgrNpzcDAwAAAAQOMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDA" Push enabled applications Notification Service Push endpoint is established. URI is created for the endpoint rd party service Microsoft hosted server

Windows Phone Push enabled applications Notification Service HTTP POST the message 3 Send PN Message 4 3 rd party service Microsoft hosted server

Demo Push Notifications

Windows Phone Response Code: HTTP status code (200 OK) Notification Status – Notification received by the Push Notification Service – For example: X-NotificationStatus:Received DeviceConnectionStatus – The connection status of the device – //For example: X-DeviceConnectionStatus:Connected SubscriptionStatus – The subscription status – //For example: X-SubscriptionStatus:Active More information –

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