Need a little Push?

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The Windows Phone team recently released the Windows Phone 7 Recipe for Push Notifications which is much more in-depth than my simple server helper class.

While it maintains the simplicity I was after server side with actions like this to send a tile notification

// Prepare a tile push notification message.

var tile = new TilePushNotificationMessage

{

   BackgroundImageUri = tileImageUri, // Remote or phone-local tile image uri.

   Count = tileCount, // Counter between 1 to 99 should be displayed on the tile.

   Title = “Tile Title” // Title to be displayed on the tile.

};

 

// Send the message synchronously.

try

{

   var sendResult = tile.Send(phoneChannelUri);

   // Check the send result.

}

catch (Exception ex)
{

   // Log the error.
}

 

It also provides good patterns on the server and the client side as well for different push scenarios. More detail is available at the Windows Phone Developer Blog.