Windows® Phone 7.5 Unleashed

Chapter 13. Push Notification

In This Chapter

• Benefits of push notification

• Handling channel errors

• Toast, tile, and raw notifications

• Specifying notification delivery delay using notification classes

• Shell tile anatomy

• Using local and remote shell tile images

• Updating an application tile using a tile schedule

• Cloud service authentication

• Sending CLR objects with raw notifications

• Building a stock ticker app

Push notification is a server to client, or cloud to phone, messaging system that allows notifications to be sent from the cloud to the phone and displayed to the phone user. Notifications are one-way messages that are normally associated with a particular application and may be delivered both while the application is ...