Windows Phone 7 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Chapter 2. Windows Phone 7 Execution Model

In this chapter, you are going to examine the Windows Phone 7 execution model. First, you will examine the navigation of pages in a Windows Phone 7 application. Then you will focus your attention on how the Windows Phone 7 operating system manages running applications.

The recipes in this chapter describe how to do the following:

• 2-1. Navigate the Windows Phone 7 application's pages

• 2-2. Pass parameters through pages

• 2-3. Use global defined variables

• 2-4. Use the State dictionary to store the application's global variables

• 2-5. Manage tombstoning

• 2-6. Manage tombstoning in XNA

• 2-7. Manage Obscured and Unobscured events

Navigating Between Pages

Problem

You have a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application with more ...